Location Manager & Scout In Scotland

Derek Yeaman – Film, TV & Commercial Location Manager

Derek has over thirty years of location management experience of filming around Scotland for film, television, adverts and documentary location.

He was worked with the smallest documentary crews to the largest of international film crews shooting in Scotland.

From locations in the Scottish Highlands and islands including Skye, Shetland, Orkney and the northern mainland, to major cities including Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling, to the lowlands and coast including the Borders and Ayrshire, Derek has unrivalled knowledge and contacts.

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Recent Production Credits

2023

  • Einaudi – Music Video for Piano Artist
  • The Needle And The Damage Done – Short film by Kevin Moloney
  • Enduraland – Commercial 
  • Photoshoot – Locate Productions, London
  • River City – Soap Opera for BBC Scotland.
  • Feature Pilot – Des Hamilton Productions
  • BMCM – Feature Film for Filmy Films London

2022

  • Blind – Thriller, feature film from India directed by Shome Ghosh
  • Tehran – Thriller starring Jon Abrams for Bollywood
  • OJO – Commercial for Greenroom films 

2021

  • Wedding Season – Comedy,  Drama for Disney  (DLP) Productions
  • Triuir Arg Tri – BBC Alba for Sorbier Productions
  • Postcode Lottery –  Commercial
  • Traces – 2nd Series for Red, Manchester

2020

  • Feature – Bell Bottom, Bollywood
  • Feature – Blind, for Lead Films
  • Molly & Mack – CBBC  – (Unit Manager)
  • Commercial for Solus Productions – Tunnocks carmel wafers
  • Commerical for STV – Debt Relief

2019

  • Feature – Shiddat – Shiddat Films Ltd
  • Feature – Elizabeth is Missing – STV/BBC
  • Feature – 83 Project- Bollywood (period)
  • Traces – Red, Manchester – TV Drama
  • Commercial  – Arteus Productions  – Postcode Lottery
  • BBC– Rivercity

2018

  • British Airways Commercial – Park Pictures, London
  • BBC – River City
  • Feature – Balance Not Symmetry
  • Feature – Bollywood – Badla
  • Asos – Fashion Shoot – Somesuch, London
  • Johnny Walker Whisky – Blink of London
  • Fashion Shoot – Art and other drugs, Paris
  • RBS Commercial  Royal Bank Of Scotland
  • Irn Bru – Filming Scotland, Edinburgh

Location Galleries

Recent Credits

Wedding Season – Comedy,  Drama for Disney  (DLP) Productions
Postcode Lottery -  Commercial
Traces, 2nd Series for Red, Manchester

Feature – Bell Bottom, Bollywood
Feature - Blind, for Lead Films
Molly & Mack, CBBC  - (Unit Manager)
Commercial for Solus Productions -  Tunnocks carmel wafers
Commerical for STV - Debt Relief

Feature – Shiddat – Shiddat Films Ltd
Feature – Elizabeth is Missing - STV/BBC
Feature - 83 Project- Bollywood (period)
Traces – Red, Manchester – TV Drama
Commercial  – Arteus Productions  - Postcode Lottery
BBC- Rivercity

BA Commercial for Park Pictures, London
BBC - River City
Feature - Balance Not Symmetry
Feature – Bollywood - Badla
Asos – fashion shoot – Somesuch, London
Johnny Walker Whisky – Blink of London
Fashion shoot - Art and other drugs, Paris
Commercial – (location scout) for RBS
Irn Bru – Filming Scotland, Edinburgh

Commercials
Cadbury’s
Volkswagon
Irn Bru
Kia Car
STV Postcode Lottery

ITV Drama for World Productions, London – In Plain Sight
Tum Bin 2, Bollywood Feature for T-Series Films of Mumbai/London
Baar Baar Dekho, Bollywood, Arc Light Films Ltd feature shot in Glasgow

Mountain Goats TV comedy series for BBC Scotland
Worldwide Cancer Research Scottish Gov.Commerical
Hector, Feature for MTP
Read Write and Count for Scot Gov, Commercial for MTP

Iona- Feature Film for Bard Entertainments
Glasgow Girls - Feature Filmfor BBC/ Minnow Films
Dewar’s Whisky - Commercial for Sugar Free, Manchester

Sunshine On Leith -Feature film for DNA Films/Black Camel Films
MI High  - ChildrensTV series for the BBC/Kudos

Government Commercial for Early Cancer Detection, MTP Glasgow
Not Another Happy Ending Feature Film for Synchronicity Films Dewars Whisky Commercial for La Belle Allee, Glasgow

Lip Service series 2, 6 part BBC Drama made by kudos
Commercial for Canadian Olympics set in Edinburgh made by Lucky Strike.
Promotional for Amoco Oil Company, set in Glencoe

Filth – (scout) on Feature film
How Not to Live Your Life……… Xmas Special for BBC 3
Co-op Commercial for RSA, London
Imran Yusuf Show, Location Manager

Energy Commercial for Scottish Govt, MTP
Commercial for Vicks Lozenge, MTP
Tez, Bollywood Film, United 7 Entertainment, thriller, Feature part set in Edinburgh/Glasgow.