A US brand meeting Scotland for the first time.
Tailor Vintage, a US menswear label, brought their autumn brand campaign to Scotland. Richard Rosenthal led for the client. The brief was specific: shoot Edinburgh's most recognisable landmarks and head out into the country, in five days, with the brand team flying in from New York.
They needed someone local to handle the permits, the suppliers and the hand-offs so the creative side could keep moving while the country worked around them.
Three landmark consents, one schedule.
The Edinburgh leg ran across three permitted public locations. Historic Environment Scotland gave us Holyrood Park at the foot of Salisbury Crags, the frame that says Edinburgh without explanation. Film Edinburgh, through the City Council, secured Calton Hill and Nelson's Monument, with a drone permit running across the hill for the aerial sequence.
Drone airspace authorisation in central Edinburgh is not a same-week ask. The aerial on Calton Hill needed coordinated paperwork well ahead of the shoot day, so the city sequence held its slot.
Edinburgh. Tailor Vintage autumn campaign.
Out of the city, into the country.
From Edinburgh we moved east. Winton Castle, a private estate near Pencaitland, gave the campaign its historic interior and parkland sequence. The next morning at Seacliff Beach, accessed through Scoughall Farm, the coastal frames opened up with the Bass Rock on the horizon and a private slipway down to the sand.
Two private landowners. Two separate negotiations. Two early calls. The brand got an estate and a coast in two consecutive days without leaving the Lothians.
Winton Castle and the East Lothian coast. Tailor Vintage autumn campaign.
Most of the work happened before anyone landed.
Members of the travelling team needed UK entry documentation. I produced an immigration cover letter on letterhead and walked them through the ETA path so they reached set without losing a day to customs.
Catering ran through Cafe Milk on the city day. A splitter van covered the entire shoot. The budget went through nine revisions on the way to sign-off, which is what international productions on a tight window actually need from a local fixer.