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North Carolina 2012 location filming soars on 2011 figure
The North Carolina Film Office reveals that state location filming in the first half of 2012 has already surpassed the figure for the whole of 2011. Nearly 40 different projects have set out plans to shoot, perhaps taking inspiration from…
Filming on location at Hawaii’s Parker Ranch with Nahua Guilloz
Nahua is with Parker Ranch on Hawaii’s Big Island. She’s been with the Ranch for five years and deals with jobs including PR, overseeing IT, Archives (including land archives), visitor activities and special projects. She also takes care of the…
Gotham’s globe-trotter: Filming The Dark Knight Rises
The final chapter of Christopher Nolan’s grittily realistic Batman trilogy filmed around the world in an epic shoot that lasted nearly a year. TLG explores the marathon scouting trips, finding Wayne Manor in Nottingham and turning Pittsburgh into Gotham City.…
Filming on location in Jackson Hole with Location Manager Ian Gersten
Ian entered the film industry as an Assistant Cameraman and then an Assistant Director and he’s worked in commercials, features and documentaries around the world. His work has focused on the Rocky Mountain region of the US for more than…
MacGuffin Films shoots base jumper leaping off Swiss mountain for Verizon
A base jumper has been filmed leaping off Switzerland’s Eiger mountain peak in a new spot for web provider Verizon. The jumper is kitted out in a specialised wing suit that fills with air and enables a degree of flight…
Colonel Blimp braves windy Philadelphia with a helicam for Passion Pit
London-based music video production company Colonel Blimp has braved the windy skies over Philadelphia in the eastern US. Take A Walk comes from Massachusetts band Passion Pit and uses a helicam to take a bird’s eye view of a ball…
North Carolina eyes Marvel’s Captain America sequel with film incentive extension
North Carolina has extended its location filming incentive by a year to the end of 2014 as it eyes Marvel’s upcoming Captain America sequel. The state already has a relationship with the studio as Iron Man 3 is filming at…
California compromises with two more years of state filming incentive
California’s location filming tax credit has been granted a two-year extension to 2015. Filming professionals in the state had been lobbying for a five-year extension and more money to increase the programme’s appeal, but a compromise was needed given the…
Filming on location with Producer Mikey Levelle
Mikey was introduced to the world of film production from the age of 15. Over the course of his career he’s worked with production companies including Pulse, The Mob, Black Dog, Weilands, Agile, Stink and Academy, all of whom he…
Even Stranger on the Shore – The tale of a supermarket on a beach
Making TV commercials is rarely totally straightforward. Here’s the story of one production from 2011 which might serve as a warning that even the most complicated productions can always get worse. The project DDB London was faced with was always…