On Location

Abstract

As we noted in the first chapter of this book, location filming has its many champions. So too, to a lesser extent, does location video recording. Both camps of enthusiasts feel that it is only out of the confines of the studio that the best television dramas can be made. Moreover, it is not only the makers of plays or films that hanker after the great outdoors. Viewers seem increasingly hungry for realistic, fast-moving and action-packed dramas or for visual feasts filmed or recorded on varied and exotic locations. Indeed, one theory has it that (with the exception of some serials) the studio play no longer has mass appeal.