Locations on Caribbean islands - colonial buildings and modern architecture for film shoots
Beach houses, plantation houses, luxury villas, industrial buildings - tropical locations in the Caribbean for film & photographic productions
Luxury villas in modern or traditional Caribbean style, wooden beach houses in bright or sun-faded colors, colorful market stands, colonial plantation houses as well as contemporary modern mansions, hotel resorts and restaurants are spread all over the Caribbean islands along beaches and on hills. International production companies and photographers have used these exotic and contemporary locations on a regular base for photo fashion catalogues, advertising and editorial magazine productions, as well as for movie, commercial and television series.
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Old sugar cane factories, small airports, horse stables, and Caribbean plantation and farm houses are also among the much sought after locations for film and tv productions on Caribbean islands. The more developed Caribbean islands have numerous industrial buildings - massive office buildings, factories, modern airports, huge sport stadiums, concert halls, universities, old churches and city locations.
Depending on the natural foundation of the island, coral stone or volcanic stones are use for construction of the buildings. Barbados for instance is a coral stone island where huge coral stone blocks are cut in quarries and used for government, industrial buildings and mansions alike. The stones are left untreated in their natural light coral stone color and rough texture. Over the years they build up a natural weather beaten patina. Often the typical luxury Caribbean style wooden houses are combined with coral stone structures, which is an interesting architectural effect.
From the run down rum shop in a side street, to the impressive old government buildings to picturesque plantation houses with typical dark mahogany wood around-the-house-verandas to modern factories and exclusive mansions - photographers and directors of commercial productions like to use these tropical locations for their film, video and photographic advertising or fashion productions.
St. Barts is one of the favorite fashion shoot locations for its numerous very modern, graphical villas spreading throughout the hills with huge pool decks hanging over the cliffs. Anguilla is popular for its plain white, almost Greek looking villas on flat white beaches. A wide variety of architectures are found St. Martin with its French and Dutch influences - from the modern (similar to St. Barts houses), to the typical French Caribbean houses with pretty colorful details, to the plain structures on the Dutch side, from contemporary beach villas to the weather beaten wooden huts, modern office buildings and open air street cafes - almost any building and architecture style can be found in St. Martin/Sint Maarten.
Caribbean islands provide a great choice of shoot locations - contemporary tropical and Mediterranean style mansions, colorful weathered wood houses and colonial homes - in the entire Caribbean region. The architecture changes slightly from island to island, but all of them offer a wide variety of locations with an exotic flavor - from wooden houses with a charming patina to the tropical modern designs which often combine natural materials with glass and steel to create a light airy feel.
