Production Service

What this is about

International brands and agencies rarely fly a full crew across borders. They book a production service partner who knows the local permit offices, crew market, locations and realistic rates, while creative lead stays with the originating production. For German producers this is both a sales channel — servicing foreign shoots — and a procurement option when shooting abroad. The contract has to state who carries insurance, payroll and permits, because none of that splits itself.

A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.

What runs differently here

In planning terms, that means:

• Creative control and final cut stay with the client production; local execution, permits and payroll sit with the service partner
• Local knowledge is the product: permit lead times, union rules and realistic day rates for the region
• Currency, VAT and payroll setup belong in the quote, not in the wrap-up conversation

With TillyGen

TillyGen keeps the service scope explicit — shotlist, schedule and local cost lines in one plan both sides can read.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.