What were the issues for the production company during the production phase ?

Was it an easy shoot?

No its not an easy shoot, there was many different challenges and problems that they came across, firstly first day of shooting they could use the boat because of the weather and had to use the sets. Also just shooting on the boat, because of the constant movement, the lighting and making sure that nothing else was in the back ground that shouldn’t be there for example a modern boat, As a result of the film being based in the 60’s they had to be careful to reflect the period of the time ,that nothing from the present time was shown, by making sure that the places, fashion, surroundings, objects, hairstyles and clothes.

Was any part of the film shot on location, if so where?


The entire external scene for the Radio Rock was shot on a actual boat called the MV Timor Challenger, which was docked in Portland near Dorset. However there were also set made up for the internal scenes that didn't really show the boat, or outside of the boat off and for the times when the weather wasn’t very good, these set were shot in Shepperton Studios in Surry, because they still need that rocking motion of the boat a hydraulic system had to be used to recreate it.

another place that was shot was in London like National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, Gambardella's Café in Blackheath Standard and Roupell Street, For the sea font they used Brighton beach in East Sussex UK and for
Sir Alistair Dormandy's home they shot in Squerryes Court, Kent, England, UK

Were there any difficulties with casting? How significant was casting to reach specific audiences?

to find the right people it took aquite a feqw months to find the right actor/actresses, but as usual, for some parts they new straight away who they wanted, nut had to make sure they were free for the filming and shot's. One of the actors they wanted was filming, but he wanted to be a part of the film so they moved the filming scene with him around.


Were there any changes the script during production?

There were some changes in production due to locations, or lines in the script not working. Some of the scenes didn’t make in to the final cut as they were either too long or didn’t work.

Key people

Hilary Bevan Jones producer
Tim Bevan producer
Richard Curtis producer
Eric Fellner producer
Emma Freud associate producer
Debra Hayward executive producer
Ronaldo Vasconcellos co-producer
Danny Cohen Cinematography by
Emma E. Hickox Film Editing by
Fiona Weir Casting by
Mark Tildesley Production Design by



What were the technological issues for the studio for producing and distributing the film?

The film didn’t do very well with the critics and the reviews as they said that it was too long and not very successful with the audience. Even when it was bought out in other countries around the world as a different name “Pirate Radio” it was still unsuccessful.