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SCENE 01 / PRE-PRODUCTION

Pre-Production Services

The team handles production planning and creative development and logistics which maintain your schedule and budget and creative vision.

CreativeScriptwriting, storyboarding, and pitch-ready treatments.
LogisticsPermits, budgeting, scheduling, and crew coordination.
DeliveryProduction-ready plans with Belgium-wide coverage.
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Planning with Precision

Comprehensive Pre-Production Services

From initial concept to production-ready plans, our team sets the foundation for successful films, TV, commercials, and digital content around the world.

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Creative Excellence

The creative team at Canal+ and Belgium Télévisions along with international co-production partners worked together to develop scripts and storyboards and visual treatments for the project.

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Strategic Planning

The line producers who created euro budgets with Tax Shelters included in their planning used Belgian holiday schedules and union regulations to determine their production timeline.

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Local Expertise

Fixers across all Belgian regions—from North Sea beaches to Ardennes villages to Walloon countryside.

Service Catalog

Our Pre-Production Services

Every phase is covered—creative development, casting, permits, budgeting, crew, logistics, and compliance.

Why Fixers in Belgium

Why Choose Fixers in Belgium for Pre-Production

Integrated creative, logistics, and compliance backed by seasoned producers and local fixers.

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Proven Expertise

Industry-leading team across all formats and budgets, trusted by global broadcasters.

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Fast Response

Rapid 24-48 hour turnarounds for quotes, permits, and scheduling updates.

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Global Network

On-the-ground partners in 100+ countries with local permits handled for you.

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Full Service

End-to-end coverage from concept and casting to legal, logistics, and delivery.

On Location

Belgium pre-production, planned right

Here is how the picture comes together. From Brussels boardrooms to the canal-side streets of Bruges, strong production outcomes start long before a camera rolls. Our pre-production team works across Belgium to build schedules that hold, budgets that reflect reality, and creative frameworks that guide each department from day one. We set up with local authorities, scout practical locations from Ghent's historic centre to the Ardennes countryside, handle permit applications in both Flemish and French-speaking regions, and set up the logistical infrastructure your shoot needs to run smoothly from first prep day through to wrap.

Plans built on real Belgian permit cycles, bilingual paperwork, and Tax Shelter timelines — never on hopeful guesswork about either.

Here is what we have to work with. Our way covers the full scope of development work. Through Scriptwriting and Script Consultation we sharpen your narrative before it reaches the floor, while Storyboarding and Concept Development translate the written word into visual language your DP and director can execute. For commercial and branded briefs, we build polished Pitch Decks and Moodboards that align creative stakeholders early. Casting & Talent sourcing rounds out the service, making sure the right performers are confirmed, contracted, and prepared well ahead of your principal photography days.

FAQs

Pre-Production FAQs

Clear answers on timelines, coverage, and how we tailor planning to your production.

What's included in pre-production services?

Here is how this works in practice. Our team gives complete production services which have script breakdown and scheduling and location selection across Belgian regions and Brussels agency casting and crew member selection from our OK'd network and budget development in euros with Tax Shelter calculations and permit submission to Belgian film commissions and local authorities. You receive a production-ready package which becomes ready before the cameras start filming.

How long does pre-production take?

Here is the short of it. The process of obtaining locations and casting actors and wrapping Tax Shelter forms for feature films needs a minimum of 8 to 12 weeks. The production timeline for commercials stays short because they need only 2 to 4 weeks to finish production when shoot sites have easy access. The process of getting documentary access and conducting interviews decides which film projects filmmakers can start their work on. The team can accelerate project work when needed but Belgian authority rules about permit processing create key time needs.

Do you work with international productions shooting in Belgium?

That's our specialty. We bridge the gap between global shoots firms and Belgian crews, vendors, and authorities. Our team handles everything from carnet needs for gear crossing borders to setting up with Belgian unions and handling the Tax Shelter co-production rules. Most of our clients are UK, US, German, and Asian shoots shooting on Belgian soil.

Can you work within a specific budget?

Here is the breakdown. The firm creates budgets which use euros as currency and have detailed line items that follow the formatting needs of the Belgian industrial sector. If you have a target number, we'll tell you honestly what's achievable—whether that means adjusting the shooting schedule, finding alternative locations, or restructuring the crew. We'd rather have a frank conversation upfront than deliver surprises later.

What happens if permits get denied or locations fall through?

Here is what that looks like on the ground. It happens, and we plan for it. The location packages we give have backup solutions and we have set up connections with Belgian property owners and film commissions to handle unexpected changes in filming locations. Our location managers have pulled off same-week replacements for everything from historic estate shoots to Belgian apartment interiors.

On Set

Ready to Start Your Pre-Production?

We'll build a production-ready plan with detailed budgets, schedules, and permit timelines for your project.