Location features we scout for

The desire from directors to show ‘fresh’ locations in each show means that often if something becomes too recognisable, it will cease to be of use to the industry. This is why we’re always looking for the following features in buildings that you may not think of as an ‘institution’:

🎬 Vinyl / Laminate Flooring – Always useful for a clinical or medical setting. As flooring can be costly to change or time consuming to cover, if an office/school/warehouse/industrial property has an area with this type of flooring, it can be quite easy to dress the remainder as a hospital ward or a lab.

🎬 Long & Wide Corridors – Directors love to film in these liminal spaces, as they can be a conduit for dramatic tension and depth on the screen. They also look great on camera, and are useful for walk and talk scenes. Bonus points for very historic or very modern décor, as productions often love a dramatic statement to tell the story in the background of the action. Wide corridors are often sought after to make use of as hospital sets and are surprisingly hard to find!

🎬 International Ambiguity – Lots of UK buildings have a distinct architectural quality that is not found overseas. If a building lacks these features, it can be utilised to represent an institution in a far away land, saving the production the hassle and cost of shooting abroad- anything with an American, Asian or distinctly Eastern European feel will prove popular with location managers and viewers alike. Generally they will have unusual brickwork (not the traditional British red), large swathes of glass,  higher ceilings or wider doors. We’ve doubled locations for America, Spain, Hungary, Japan and India, all inside the M25.