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Santander Commercial with Ant and Dec
September 19, 2023 | Locations in Action
When Ant and Dec visited Acton…How do you turn an empty office headquarters into a bustling set for a Santander advert. This huge modern office building is becoming popular for filming. A great Police Station and College/School double. Multiple floors of furnished office space with a loading dock, great staircases, a roof terrace and a …
What our clients say
February 15, 2022 | Client Testimonials
We have worked with Nick Marshall on a number of productions, so we were thrilled to hear his kind words about Area 4. We have many years in the industry, building relationships with property landlords and film productions. The creative industry and the property industry can have different priorities and we have the experience to …
How to burn a staircase
January 18, 2022 | Locations in Action
Q. How can you burn a staircase when your film is set in a Stately Home? A. Build a replica set in an empty warehouse in Mitcham! SKY’s “The Amazing Mr Blunden” was aired at Christmas on NOW TV. We were delighted to work with Adorable Media’s production on one of our locations for their …

Sites, Camera, Action!
August 3, 2021 | In the Press
We’re delighted to see our very own Andrew Reed’s interview in Property Week. Interview with former retail agent Andrew Reed on his journey into film By Noella Pio Kivlehan, Thursday 22 July 2021 When the new James Bond film No Time to Die is eventually released in October, look out for the man on the motorbike …
Double Vision
May 11, 2021 | What we do
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 location required. We often get asked for hospitals, schools, prisons, courtrooms, police stations and other such institutions. By …