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A flowchart titled Filming Activity Timeline shows six stages: enquiry, film location recce, negotiations & agreement, pre-production, filming/production, and post-production wrap—outlining tasks for each step in securing a commercial property film location opportunity.

Turn Your Commercial Property into a Film Location Opportunity

March 13, 2026 | Uncategorized

🎬Did you know your commercial property could generate additional income by being featured in film and TV productions? We specialise in connecting commercial properties with the film industry — creating new revenue streams for property owners and fee-sharing opportunities for agents. Production companies are constantly searching for unique, flexible spaces. That’s where you come in.

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Collage of commercial properties with text: WE NEED YOUR SPACE. We help commercial property owners connect with the film industry for additional income, offering fee sharing for agents. Logos: Apple TV, Prime Video, Film 1, ITV, Hat Trick, Sky, Netflix, BBC.

CALLING COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OWNERS

June 19, 2024 | What we do

We promote vacant space to the film industry on behalf of the landlord. How We Work: We don’t take any occupation as we are effectively acting as an agent for the landlord, working in conjunction with the existing agents who are trying to secure long term occupation. The film industry only require short term occupation

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A split image: left reveals a blue hallway with checkered floors; center captures a multi-story brick building, ideal as a film location; right shows a beige corridor with doors and a red object at the end. Logo and text area4 at the bottom.

Film locations that double for something else

May 23, 2024 | What we do

Double Vision Part of the responsibility of a good location agency is to respond to a production brief not just with exact examples of what they’ve asked for, but also variations that could be made to ‘double’ for the film location required. We often get asked for hospitals, schools, prisons, courtrooms, police stations and other

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Four-panel collage of city buildings: Top left shows a modern urban street ideal for filming locations, with tall buildings. Top right features a historic brick building with a gabled roof. Bottom left depicts a waterway alongside industrial brick structures. Bottom right reveals a sleek glass edifice.

A Guide to Assessing Landlords for Filming Locations

March 27, 2024 | What we do

If Area4 are to promote property to the film industry we need to know that the landlord’s property is actually useable and the landlord is keen to work with us. Making sure we don’t waste time and effort with property owners who aren’t really engaged with what we do is key for Area4. Here’s how

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Using Commercial Property for Filming

November 3, 2023 | What we do

New locations are key to our business but our involvement sits low on the priority of most landlords. It’s not their main business so we need to approach them or their agents carefully, professionally and clearly demonstrate the benefits we can offer; namely a new source of income. It is important to make it clear

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