Hong Kong-based production company Bleu Arc chose a Budapest location shoot for Chinese clothing brand Youngor when the city offered cheaper production costs. The original plan to film around Oxford University in England proved too expensive.
[slideshow id=352]Blink Productions headed north of Scotland to Shetland to film a dancing Shetland pony in a celebration of silliness for the Three network. The spot features the tiny pony showing off its dance moves on a scenic cliff top.
Atlantic Pictures chose dusty filming locations in Texas to shoot the live-action trailer for videogame Defiance. Delivering Mad Max-style visuals, the spot shows a team of drifters fleeing a brawl in a remote bar before facing off against an alien invasion in a dystopian California.
Radical Media used David Bowie’s lyrics from Sound and Vision to stage the distinctive Holi festival on location in Jaipur in northern India. The scenes are the finale of a new spot promoting the Sony Xperia Z smartphone as two tourists snap the festival’s vivid colours.
Paris-based production house Irene rallied Roman soldiers in Morocco for a new spot promoting the Livebox Play TV decoder from Orange. Director Xavier Giannoli’s ad features a TV viewer interrupting a Roman leader’s battle cry in a remote desert.
Cairo-based ECU Productions dodged political demonstrations in the Egyptian capital to film a new spot for Vodafone. The commercial shows a group of energetic shopkeepers tagging each other along their street.
RSA Films and director Jake Scott headed to northern Iceland to film a campaign for software company Hewlett Packard. The spot shows a family in a picturesque fishing village using a new HP printer to promote their charter fishing boat trips.
Stephen Poliakoff’s 1930s-set TV miniseries Dancing on the Edge got production support from Creative England to secure filming locations in West Midlands. Created to replace regional screen agencies, Creative England offers support and funding for productions filming outside London.