[slideshow id=49]Mary Barltrop moved to Australia from London ten years ago and has become one of the country’s top Location Managers, working on Superman Returns, Australia and X-Men Origins: Wolverine as well as numerous TV shows.
[slideshow id=41]Taking the shine off modern-day London was one of the bigger issues faced by the production team on The King’s Speech. The story’s set during the 1930s when the city looked very different from the modern-day reality and Director Tom Hooper was keen to make it look real.
[slideshow id=38]Child sponsorship charity ActionAid has filmed a new commercial in a Kenyan village. The spot highlights the organisation’s success in fitting fresh-water pumps in the region and takes a deliberately upbeat tone.
[slideshow id=35]This month I talked to Christian McWilliams, the English Location Manager who has reinvented himself as the undisputed go-to guy for Morocco.
[slideshow id=32]Above all else you need to have one thing when filming in Russia - cash, and lots of it.
[slideshow id=33]I was sitting on my terrace in Tenerife, sipping a beer, when I received the call to go to Morocco and UPM the Moroccan end of Salmon fishing in the Yemen, directed by Lasse Hallström.
[slideshow id=28]Keen joggers might find their normal running route feels a bit dull from time to time. They’ve probably never considered jumping onto the local freight train to inject a bit of spice to their work-out. This is exactly what happens in the new commercial spot from Powerade, entitled Road to Endorphins.
[slideshow id=25]Say what you like about the weather in Scotland, but snow is probably the last thing you expect to see in the streets of Edinburgh in July. The ‘freezing’ conditions were created in the Scottish capital during the height of summer for department store John Lewis’ Christmas commercial Tribute to Givers.