So you'd like to use your house as a film location.

The credit crunch is well and truely upon us and the papers are full of ways to make some extra money. Lavish Locations is being inundated with calls from journalists running features about how to turn your house into the film star and get well rewarded for doing so. So are they right? Well, yes and no. It is true that for some very special locations (and you will learn over the next few weeks what makes a film crew want to come back and back again to the same location) they can earn significant sums of money year after year for allowing their house to be used for film, TV and photographic shoots. However, for many locations it is something of pot luck.

But there are certainly some things which will help your house get selected - the first of which is making sure that it is with a film location agency. For virtually every film, advert, magazine photoshoot, or TV drama, the first place they will come to for a location is a location agency. And for a residential location, the first place they will come is Lavish Locations, as for over 20 years we have been representing the largest and most diverse selection of residential locations in the UK.

Over the next few weeks you will learn about the reality of using your house as a film location; how to choose the right agency; what a good location agency will do for you; why our clients use a film location agency; what's hot in film locations; film location no no's and much much more.

Our blog is here to help you make the most of your house as a film location.

Not only that, we wil be regularly posting "looking for" bulletins so that you can volunteer your location if you see it fulfills the brief we are looking for.

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