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More on the theme of set-jetting: I found Movie London, an interactive map of London film locations with the tag line 'Explore the city film by film':

See also the related World Wide Guide to Movie Locations website, based on the book of the same name by Tony Reeves. The website claims to be the "ultimate travel guide to film locations around the world. With movie tourism now a global phenomenon, here you’ll find original location photographs, trivia, links and travel details. If you ever wondered ‘Where did they film that?’, or you want to visit the filming locations of your favourite movie, simply navigate by film title or browse the name of your favourite actor or director. To check out locations, use the world map."
It would be so easy to adapt the cinemapping app to include movie locations - and this is something that I would hope to explore with the Liverpool City in Film collaboration as their GIS database has both film locations and cinemas. I love the idea of tying in film locations with cinema locations (past and present) to link the films with the celebration of cinema-going. Bristol itself isn't teaming with film locations so it's not something I've explored in the current iteration, but there's nothing to stop it being an additional functionality of the platform. It's just a matter of drawing data from another database.
But I've been thinking about what being able to access this information at the location would actually add? - it would be so easy to create a standard informational app, but the challenge (and what actually interests me) is the potential to create rich, bespoke, layered experiences to enhance each film location, rather than just a list of what was filmed, where.
Lots to think about.
Posted by Charlotte Crofts
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Hi Charlotte,
I'm a senior lecturer on the Graphic Design course at UWE, Bristol but also edit and design a book series for a Bristol based Publisher called The World Film Locations series.
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Series,id=27/
We've published 16 titles so far with many more to follow in 2013 and 2014.
We've been looking at the development of an app to bring a more immersive experience to the whole nature of film locations and travel.
We have a wide array of location images and write-ups of hundreds of films worldwide and are steadily building up a global readership.
It would be good to chat about both of our respective projects to see if any interesting ideas or potential collaborations evolve.
You can email me at the above address or gabriel@intellectbooks.com.
All the best,
Gabriel
Posted by Gabriel (not verified) | 25 Aug 2012 at 12.00