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Florida’s new incentives boost local production
New incentives recently introduced in Florida have already impacted on the state’s audiovisual production. While Florida has attracted theatrical feature productions like Marley & Me and Confessions of a Shopaholic in recent years, the state is an especially popular location…
Klaxons chooses Egypt’s White Desert for new music video
British band Klaxons has filmed a new music video in Egypt’s White Desert. The band chose the location for the video to its single Echoes as it offers a unique environment of wind- and rain-eroded chalk formations. Also, it’s accessible…
Ubisoft shoots in Downtown LA
Computer game developer Ubisoft has filmed a new commercial for game Shaun White Skateboarding in Downtown Los Angeles. Transformation shows skateboarders performing trick shots through the city, with ramps, steps and other obstacles springing up around them. The shoot lasted…
Sony's Eat, Love, Pray gets the best from Bali's locations
Before Julia Roberts’ hotly-anticipated Eat, Love, Pray was filmed earlier this year, nobody had ever managed to pull off a large studio shoot on the Indonesian island of Bali. But Marco Giacalone’s innovative use of professional coconut harvesters, poisonous sea-snake…
Sprint faces extreme weather shooting new ad on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats
Mobile operator Sprint has filmed a new commercial on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Called Firsts, the spot shows a wooden wheel rolling into a penny farthing bicycle on the Salt Flats and prompting a chain reaction of falling…
Filming on location in Cuba
The isolationist political regime of the last 50 years has made Cuba, the largest island of the Antilles, a timewarp of retro styling. As advertisers and filmmakers are finding, it’s also a cheap and efficient place to get your picture…
VW chooses India for Polo photo shoot
Major vehicle manufacturer VW has filmed on location in India for a photo shoot advertising its Polo car. The campaign will run alongside its television commercials that doubled South Africa for India. The photo shoot production shot in several locations…
There's something about Marseille
Visit its buzzing streets or its city beaches and you'll soon see Marseille is an extraordinary place that has its own soul unlike any other. The capital of Provence Alpes Cote D'Azur, it was founded around 600BC by Phoenician sailors…
Mayflower shoots with 20-foot marionette on location in LA
American house-moving firm Mayflower has shot its latest commercial on location in Los Angeles using a 20-foot-tall marionette called Audrey. Big Move shows Audrey walking slowly across an American landscape, openly operated by a team of puppeteers. She is followed…
Why Lori Loves California
Lori Balton’s address book is a who’s who of Hollywood production designers, producers, and directors. Amongst others she has location scouted for Spielberg, Scorsese, Bay, Redford, Mann, Darabont, Pakula and Tony Scott, on films including Charlie Wilson’s War, Memoirs of…