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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.

Creative Scriptwriting, storyboarding, and pitch-ready treatments.
Logistics Permits, budgeting, scheduling, and crew coordination.
Delivery Production-ready plans with Australia-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 ABC and SBS 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 USD budgets with Producer Offsets included in their planning used Australian holiday schedules and union regulations to determine their production timeline.

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Local Expertise

Fixers across all 6 states and 2 territories—from Far North Queensland beaches to mountain towns to coastal landscapes.

Service Catalog

Our Pre-Production Services

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

Why Fixers in Australia

Why Choose Fixers in Australia 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.

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Planning Your Australian Production Right

Here is how this works in practice. From Sydney's inner-city studios to remote shoots across the Red Centre, thorough pre-production is what keeps an Australian project on schedule and on brief. Our team handles each planning layer — setting up permits, managing creative development, and building schedules that account for the distinctive logistical demands of filming across a continent-sized country. Whether your production is based in Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth, we align your creative vision with real-world resources before a single camera rolls. Early investment in planning directly reduces costly surprises during principal photography.

Schedules built on real Screen Australia permit timelines and continent-scale travel realities — never optimistic guesses about either.

Here is the short of it. Concept Development and Storyboarding allow our creative team to visualise scenes well before shoot days, reducing on-set revisions and keeping the shoot efficient. Our Scriptwriting and Script Consultation services make sure your narrative is tight and production-ready for the specific conditions of filming in Australia. When talent is needed, our Casting and Talent service sources verified performers suited to your project's tone and format. Across all of these disciplines, our Pitch Decks and Moodboards help communicate the creative direction clearly to stakeholders and clients across the development and approval process.

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 6 states and 2 areas and Sydney agency casting and crew member selection from our OK'd network and budget development in USD with Producer Offset calculations and permit submission to Screen Australia and local councils. 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 Screen Australia 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 Australian authority rules about permit processing create key time needs.

Do you work with international productions shooting in Australia?

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

Can you work within a specific budget?

Here is the breakdown. The firm creates budgets which use USD as currency and have detailed line items that follow the formatting needs of the Australian 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 Australian property owners and film commissions to handle unexpected changes in filming locations. Our location managers have pulled off same-week replacements for everything from heritage homestead shoots to Australian apartment interiors.

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Ready to Start Your Pre-Production?

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