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Filming in West Virginia with Location Services Co-ordinator Jamie Cope
Jamie is a West Virginia (WV) native with a degree in mechanical engineering. He started out in the business by spending 15 years running a production company focusing on computer animation before moving to the state film office. He had…
Filming on location in Amsterdam with Location Scout Adri Schagen
Adri started working in advertising in the 80s, before switching to the creative industry with Kloosterboer Décor as project leader. Having scouted locations for nearly 20 years, Adri has been building a digital location archive with connections to all sorts…
Filming on location in Tanzania with Peter Jones
Peter's 1976 Tanzanian summer job working with the renowned archeologist Dr Mary Leakey at the Olduvai Gorge turned into an eight-year stay. He became involved with filming due to the number of film crews that regularly visited Olduvai to interview…
Historic Dutch feature Nova Zembla films in 3D on location in Iceland
Dutch feature Nova Zembla has doubled Iceland for northern Russia and captured everything in 3D. The film charts the exploits of 16th Century explorer Willem Barentsz, who stranded his ship on the Russian islands of Novaya Zemlya when he tried…
Alberta films new tourism campaign on location with Circle Productions
Alberta in western Canada isn’t short on eye-catching natural vistas and many of these have been captured in a new tourism campaign. Circle Productions produced the new series of commercials compiling 16 separate spots that promote the province in both…
Filming on location in Valdivia in southern Chile with Bettina Bettati
Bettina is a graduate of the University of Utah. She worked for the university's Film Studies department as media specialist and worked in several independent film movie houses as curator and traffic co-ordinator before heading back to Chile in 2006.…
Editor’s Weekly
We’ve covered two new commercials this week filmed in Canada and Italy, respectively. We have updates on filming incentive controversies across the US, while Australia has been hit by the cancellation of major feature project Paradise Lost. Deodorant brand Rexona…
Boxer Films trades a sled for a new Suzuki filming on location in Alberta
The ice of Spray Lake in Alberta, Canada, is the setting for a new vehicle commercial from Suzuki, produced by Boxer Films. Sled shows an Inuit setting off from his igloo home with his huskies, only to return having traded…
Safety forces Radical Media to abandon Mercedes-Benz location filming in Oregon
Radical Media has had to head elsewhere to film a new Mercedes-Benz commercial after safety concerns caused problems in Oregon. The producers were eyeing Deschutes National Forest, but plans to use a low-flying helicopter concerned the US Forest Service. Filming…
Editor’s Weekly
It’s been a busy week for ads and we’ve covered spots filmed in Iceland, Buenos Aires and California. A popular TV story has been news that the BBC will be filming a new period drama in Dublin, doubling the city…