The Complete Film Pre-Production Guide
Every film starts with pre-production, this is the stage where you write your script, source funding and organise your shoot. Film pre-production should be the longest stage in filmmaking. Get this part right, and you will save yourself both time and money. All film...
How to Complete a Film Risk Assessment
How to Complete a Film Risk Assessment Especially bigger film sets can potentially lead to an accident. To help avoid accidents on your next creative project, you should complete a film risk assessment. This is a document that evaluates potential risks so that you can...
How To Rent Your Home For Filming with Scouty
Rent your home for filming and make money from it. If you own a property of any kind, you can earn additional income by registering your house as a filming location. Location scouts are looking for all types of properties and are willing to pay well to rent...
Tips For Filming on Location in Cold Weather
Tips For Filming on Location in Cold Weather Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash Filming on location in the winter months can bring you unexpected challenges. You can’t predict the weather, but it will only help to prepare. Your first step should be to let all of...
Scouty is now available in Manchester
Scouty was founded with the idea of simplifying the location booking process. In 2020, we launched our marketplace specifically designed to connect location owners with production companies, filmmakers and creators of all kinds. We’ve quickly become one of the fastest...
Locations Department Breakdown, Salary and Skills
In filmmaking, the locations department is responsible for finding fictional locations within the real world. Your film locations will play a big part in character design and storytelling. So it is essential to take your time sourcing that perfect location. Below...
How To Have A Successful Location Recce – Complete Guide
Your film locations need both character and functionality. They need to enhance the story and still be accessible for your crew. During a location recce, your creative team checks the site to ensure it's suitable for filming. This includes conducting a risk...
Introducing Favourites on Scouty ❤
We’re pleased to announce a new and frequently requested feature: Favorites ❤️ On Scouty you can explore hundresds of amazing photo and film locations that can be booked in minutes. Our new feature lets you save the ones you like most all in one place. How to save a...
Importance of social-first video content for brands /w Toby Hart co-founder of Nusa Films
What is Nusa Films? Hi I’m Toby, co-founder of Nusa Films: a social-first video production company based in East London. We produce high-performing social media campaigns for brands and have worked with the likes of Vodafone, Sports Direct and Warner Bros. By...
Listing your location on Scouty
London is the creative capital of the world, being the second largest producer of TV content and also home to 70% of Europe’s advertising agencies. In order for agencies, brands and production companies to create high quality content every day hundreds of photo...
Commercial Shoots in England Can Continue
Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels Lockdown in England: Can commercial photo and film shoots continue? On Sunday 1st of November the Prime Minister announced a four week lockdown and further restrictions in relation to COVID. The new regulations will become effective on...
6 Amazing Residential Location Houses for Film and Photo Shoots in London
London offers a huge variety of residential locations with great potential for filming and photoshoots. With a great range of residential locations and scenery available, houses, apartments, flats and other residential properties make good and practical locations for...
Change the Price of Your Listing
Why change the price of your listing? Before we talk about how you can change the price of your location we want to give you two of situations where changing the price can be handy. The price you display should be your average price per hour for your space. This will...
6 Photo Studios in London under £55/hr
Finding affordable studios in London can easily become a daunting experience. As the current pandemic also has an impact on production budgets, some creatives are looking for affordable studio spaces. To help you create amazing content on a budget we have chosen 6...
Black-owned photo & film locations in London
Having a hard time trying to find black owned studio spaces in London? Well, we know the struggle all too well. On our endless search for photo & film locations we noticed a prominent issue, with the issue being how hard it is to locate black owned studio spaces...
COVID-19: Safety on set
We’ve created a guide to help you minimise health and safety risks on set. The guide is intended as a high-level framework to provide guidance and support for the assessment and minimisation of risks. Additional information provided by the government should be taken...
Booking process
For payments between Hosts and Hirers, we use Stripe Connect, a full-stack payment solution. This document describes each relevant aspect of how we manage payments through Stripe. Prerequisite for Hosts To create charges and receive payments, hosts must complete the...
Adding a description that sells
Location name First of all you will need to come up with a listing name which is a very brief title for your listing. For a studio this could be something like “London daylight studio”. Be short and precise. Description Once you’ve uploaded the photos of your space...
Select the perfect pictures
A picture tells a thousands words - you can upload up to 20 After creating an account the first step is to select the pictures that best present your unique location. Your photos are the first thing our app users look at and are frequently the decisive factor in...
Host set-up
For payments, we use Stripe. Stripe is an industry leading and secure online payment processor. When you get your first booking request and want to accept the booking you have to set up your Stripe account. In this article you’ll learn how to create a Stripe account...
