About Scout

Areas that we specialise in:

Scout Productions have become the leading location company to the fashion industry.  Hugo Smith Bingham works very closely with Burberry for most of their campaigns - Algy has closed down central Manchester for Chanel - we love location work for the Fashion world the pressure the demands and the creative end result.

Scout Productions have the largest collection of Location Managers - all working alongside each other - created in the TV commercial world we have grown into a very efficient team of scouts who can source locations quickly with our massive location library - our collective location knowledge - our ability to turn requests around quickly - our close relationship with councils and boroughs across the UK.  

It is no surprise that our Location Managers have covered TV commercial scouting and turned our skill into long format scouting - we can scout for Dramas and Films often becoming Supervising Location managers through Algy Sloane, Chris Kennedy, Tom Asquith and Paul Davis.  

Scout Productions has a long standing relationship with photographers providing great locations for the back of shot.

Scout Productions have branched out into the ever expanding world of activations and events.  Scout Productions has pulled together massive fashion show events, Private party events and activation sourcing locations in high footfall areas to provide brands with ultimate exposure.

We are a team of location managers with over 25 years of location and production experience

We work on commercials, feature films, dramas, stills activation and events - we are there to help with any location enquiry 

We have an army of skilled scouts all trained the Scout way

We work as a team and support each other on each job

We have scouted and filmed all over the UK and globall.y We will scout and manage the location for you We can arrange all permits, contracts and fees for you

We have both location managers and location assistants (see scouts) We have a dedicated office support for all jobs

Scout Productions has one of the largest Location finding libraries in the UK covering all kinds of locations to inspire the inspired.

The library is free to use

We have an online location library that we have collected over the last 25 years.

We have further locations in our offline library for office use

You can scroll through the library and create a select file which appears in the top right corner of the site.

You can share selects with the scout office or other members of your team.

You can search for location by using POST CODE or KEYWORDS and focus your attention into exactly what location you need and where you want it.

We love finding locations so please send a brief to the office for our scouts to research and recce for you

All locations on the site are subject to availability Admin fee for Location is £300.00

If a Scout location is used from the Scout library we will plant 4 trees for each shoot day to make the production CARBON AWARE through http://www.carbonawareproductions.com

After over 20 years in the Industry we have a plethora of contacts across the UK and the World and have now set up our production wing - www.soutproductionservices.co.uk We have scouted / produced still shoots nationally and internationally.

We can arrange crews anywhere in the UK and across the world

We love a challenge

Please get in touch with the office at info@scoutproductionservices.co.uk with any queries.

We find that we can help at the very concept of a production idea. Often saving you money and giving you the chance to think of alternative locations that can give you that bit more - with sufficent lead in times some things out there are more in grasp than you may think.

FAQ:

What is the biggest Location finding company in the UK for film production and events?

Scout productions has the largest online collection of locations for productions to use to source their desired location.

I need to find a film location in the UK how best to do this?

contacting Scout Productions will be your first port of call and we can supply you a Location Scout to help you find your perfect Film Location or Photo shoot location or a fantastic live location for activation and events.

I need to be inspired and need a location library?

Scout Productions offer a vast Location Library to help you source the perfect location - free to use and Scout productions will help you with their location expertise.

We can act as location fixers in the UK or use our international partners as global film fixers for locations anywhere in the world. Whether the location is in Bromley, Birmingham or Bali we can arrange film fixers and facilitate productions.

We have regional scouts up and down the country including regional Location library - We can scout for your perfect location firstly online and then out in the field.  We can then set up your location and cover all aspects of contractual and permitting to take the stress away.

Please get in touch in regards to registering your property on our library.

Please call or e mail the office as we are always on the hunt for new locations to promote on our location library.

We seek all sorts of locations from houses to warehouses to beaches to farms.

We would be glad to speak to you about how we upload your locations to our location library and how we promote thier use.

Steps to registering your property on the UK largest Locaiton Library:

• Please contact Scout Productions on 0207 096 0605 or library@scoutproductions.co.uk
• We will discuss how we can promote your location to our vast database
• Hiring out locations is not an easy job and can take many attempts to capture a booking but we have 25 years of experience in doing this so we would guide you through the process 
• Scout Productions is different to any other location library as we are first and foremost Location Managers we are Scouts- so we know what is needed with a location and we are normally approached in the first instance by clients who are seeking locations as we will be supplying Scouts so Scout Productions is probably the first port of call for the most amount for clients when looking for a location - which sets us apart from other location libraries
• For maximum chance of booking you can become exclusive to Scout Productions which means you will be promoted for every relevant enquiry and appear at the front of our location library
• If exclusive we will provide our very own photographer to scout your location 
• If non exclusive please send images - landscape and 16:9 format - we can help you with how to do this
• Its what we do - we find locations we scout locations we just want to provide productions with the best location and we know that the location owner is one of the most important parts in the process - a happy location owner is paramount.