This blog post will be unashamedly promoting our home town on Brighton. This vibrant city is a fantastic place to live and work and over the following paragraphs, I’ll explain why you should seriously consider Brighton as the base for your next film or video production.

History

Firstly an interesting Brighton fact, the British film industry has its roots in nearby Shoreham-by-Sea, where a studio was established on the beach, to take advantage of fact that Shoreham has the most light of any area of the country outside of Cornwall. We are also home to one of the oldest cinemas in Europe, The Duke of Yorks. More information about the history of cinema in Brighton features here.

http://www.terramedia.co.uk/brighton/brighton_chronology.htm

Facilities

The city features some impressive facilities for the film maker. There are numerous photography studios of varying sizes dotted around the city. Both Sussex and Brighton Universities have excellent facilities on campus – with Sussex having its own sound stage!

One studio that we frequently use and can recommend is slightly outside Brighton – the Cottage Studio in Albourne.

http://www.thecottagestudio.com/

One of the best film schools in the country is also resident here. The Brighton Film School has a fantastic reputation for melding exciting film and video talent

http://brightonfilmschool.co.uk

Locations

Brighton & Hove features some of the best examples of Regency architecture in the country.  The Palace Pier and Royal Pavilion are world famous and have featured in Film and Television since their inception. There are also fantastic rolling parks (which we’ve used in more than one production) as well as the (in)famous stony beaches.

Creative hub

Brighton is a well established hot bed for creative talent and bleeding edge technologies in the UK. Now known as Silicon Beach, the city has many excellent video production companies and organisations that can work in conjunction with the medium to spread your message.

Wired Sussex

Wired Sussex acts as a hub for all the companies and individuals involved in the creative and technology sectors in the city. They hold social get togethers and training programmes which we’ve found extremely useful.

www.wiredsussex.com

Online Creative

A fantastic post-production facility with the only Davinci suite in Brighton. Darren regularly produces projects for ITV and the BBC and also offers training programmes for his highly advanced facilities.

http://www.online-creative.com/index.html

Scene stealer/Re-flow

A fantastic firm who have made award winning interactive video content, including the iconic Knicker-Picker online changing room. They also now provide an excellent video delivery platform for blue chip clients.

http://www.reflow.tv/

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It would be a little disingenuous of us to write this article without a *little* plug. Suffice it is to say that we consider ourselves to be amongst the best in Brighton (and on a good day the country) – feel free to get in touch so we can show you what we do.

Luke Cairns

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