Film crew hire/Bristol/Producer
Hire a producer in Bristol. One person to call all day, from the first suspended bay to the last drive.
Freelance producers for shoots across Bristol and Bath. They know how much notice Bristol Film Office wants, when a tripod on Clifton Suspension Bridge needs a word with the Bridge Attendant, when Temple Meads lets a crew in, and that Bristol’s Clean Air Zone charges cars as well as vans. From £450 a day, paid to the producer in full.
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The role
What a producer does on your shoot
A producer turns a plan into a day that runs. Before the shoot they build the schedule, book the crew, the kit and the location, sort the permissions, the releases and the building passes, and send the call sheet. On the day they run the clock, look after your client and your contributors, and make the calls nobody behind the camera has time for.
After wrap, they check the rushes are safe and on their way to you or your edit. In Bristol a good part of the job is knowing who has to say yes, and in what order: the building, Bristol Film Office for the street, the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust for a tripod on the bridge, Network Rail for Temple Meads, and Bath’s own film office once the shoot crosses the boundary.
- One person to call. Your client, your contributors and the crew all go through the producer.
- The schedule holds. They build it, run it, and tell you early when a set-up is running long.
- Every yes in writing. Building passes, the film office permit, the letters to the neighbours and the releases, sorted before the day.
- No surprises on the invoice. Overtime, parking bays and the Clean Air Zone charge agreed with you before they happen.
What’s included
What the day rate covers
In the day rate
- An 11-hour day, including an hour for lunch
- The schedule and call sheet for the day
- Running the set: timings, crew, contributors and your client
- Contributor release forms, signed and filed
- A risk assessment for the location
- A rushes check at wrap, and the handover
On top, each on its own line
- Our 10% booking fee and 2% insurance, on the whole quote
- Prep days before the shoot, if it needs them
- Permit fees, from Bristol Film Office to the bridge trust, at cost
- Travel from outside Bristol, and mileage, parking and the Clean Air Zone charge where the day needs them, at cost
How our rates work, and the two ways to book: crew rates in Bristol.
Two ways to book
Crew hire or full production: who’s the producer of record?
One question sets the price: who’s the producer of record? Book a producer to run your day inside your own production, or have us take the production on.
Crew hire
You run the shoot.
10% + 2% booking fee and insurance, on everything we book for you: crew, kit and travel.
We do
- Find, book and brief the crew, and pay them
- Book kit, travel and hotels too, if you want them
- Send the full price before anything is booked
- One person to call all day
- Employers’ liability for the crew we book, and insurance on kit we hire in
You do
- Run the shoot, or your producer does
- The plan, the schedule and the call sheet
- The location, its permission and its public liability
- Responsibility for the production: you’re the producer of record
What the 2% insures: employers’ liability for every crew member we book, and the kit we hire in for you. Nothing else on the shoot. A large kit rental may need extra insurance, as its own line on the quote.
Full production
We’re the producer of record.
15% + 5% production fee, plus insurance and contingency, on the whole production budget. Quoted as a production.
We do
- Our producer plans it with you and runs the day
- Locations, permits, kit, studio, travel and hotels, booked and paid in our name
- Insurance for the whole shoot, public liability included, plus the risk assessment and the call sheet
- One contract and one invoice, so overseas teams need no UK company
You do
- The creative calls
- Signing off the plan and the budget
What the 5% pays for: our production insurance across the whole shoot, £10m public liability included, and the contingency.
Not sure which you need? If your own producer or director will run the day, it’s crew hire. If you want us to take the production on, it’s a full production quote.
On the day
A day with a producer, call to wrap
An interview day for a corporate film at a company’s offices near Temple Meads, then b-roll on the street outside. Times are an example; your producer’s call sheet sets the real ones.
- 07:00 Before call On site first: vans into the suspended bays, kit into the goods lift, then the room, the power and where the contributors wait. Every van and crew car was checked against the Clean Air Zone the week before, because Bristol’s charges cars too.
- 08:00 Crew call Passes collected from security, a safety briefing, the order of the day, and who’s who on the client side. The sound recordist is off the early train from Cardiff.
- 08:30 Set-up Camera, lights and sound go in. The producer walks your client through the plan and checks the questions.
- 10:00 First contributor Met at reception, settled, mic’d up, release signed. The producer watches the time and listens to the answers.
- 13:00 Lunch An hour, as the card sets it, ordered the day before and delivered to the floor.
- 14:00 Street b-roll Five of the crew outside on a Bristol Film Office street permit: £84 plus VAT for a crew of up to ten, applied for at least seven days ahead, with letters to the neighbours and businesses seven days before (checked October 2026).
- 18:30 Wrap Kit down the goods lift, the room put back, passes handed in, rushes checked and on their way. Out by 19:00.
Which producer
Which producer do you need?
“Producer” covers a few different jobs. Here’s how we match one to a brief.
Shoot producer Runs your shoot days From £450 a day
The booking most clients mean. The film’s already planned; you need someone to run the days: crew, timings, contributors and your client.
Best for interview days, events, and agency shoots where your own producer is on another job, or in London.
Production manager Logistics and bookings £504–627 a day
Books the crew, kit, vans, parking and hotels, and keeps the paperwork straight, working to your producer. See production managers in Bristol.
Best on multi-day shoots that move between Bristol and Bath, where the logistics are a job on their own.
Producer-director Plans the film and directs it Quoted on the brief
Plans the story, runs the interviews and directs the shoot, sometimes with a camera in hand. See directors in Bristol.
Best for documentary interviews and small crews.
Local producer, or service company For teams from outside the UK Production quote
Runs the ground for a production landing at Bristol Airport or arriving at Temple Meads: crew, permits, kit, vans and hotels, on one UK contract. That makes us the producer of record, so it’s a production quote: 15% plus 5% for insurance and contingency.
Best for teams from the US and Europe. Here’s how a UK production service company works.
Production assistant An extra pair of hands £400 a day
Releases, runs, kit, parking and the call sheet, working to the producer. See production assistants in Bristol.
Best alongside a producer on busy days with lots of contributors.
What it’s for
What people book a producer for in Bristol
Interview and testimonial days
Customer stories and leadership films in offices round the Harbourside and Temple Meads, with every crew name at security the day before.
Conferences and events
Multi-camera days at venues like Bristol Beacon, which hires out spaces for 2 to 2,000 people and streams live without a satellite truck, where the run of show changes by the hour.
Agency shoots, white-label
Your producer is on another job, or in London; ours runs the Bristol day as part of your team.
Shoots on landmark ground
The SS Great Britain, Clifton Suspension Bridge, Temple Meads or Bath’s Royal Crescent, where the owner’s rules come before the shot list.
Teams flying in
US and European productions landing at Bristol Airport that need a producer on the ground and a UK company to contract.
Recent work
Producers on our jobs, in Bristol and on the road
Our work · Bristol
Rise Technical Recruitment
A 90-second recruitment film for Rise, which recruits recruiters from offices in Bristol, London and Los Angeles. We wrote the script and the interview questions with Rise’s head of marketing, filmed at the Bristol office, and shot employee success stories the same day without adding budget.
Crew and production support · Alderley Edge, Barcelona, Manchester and Essendon · 2025 and 2026
A producer on every shoot day, for The Athletic
Truth or Padel, The Athletic’s interview series, played out on a padel court with eight cameras. The pilot was a producer, two camera operators and a sound recordist in a back garden in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, in April 2025. For the episodes that followed, our producer recced the Barcelona court the day before, and back in Alderley Edge on 14 April 2026 our head of production asked for an hour and a half to set the court before the guest arrived. We planned the cameras, booked and ran the crews and handed over the rushes; The Athletic edits the series itself.
Before you book
Things to know
The day
- 11 hours, including an hour for lunch.
- Overtime at card rates, agreed with you before it happens.
- Prep days before the shoot are quoted separately.
Permissions and certificates
- Council land in Bristol goes through Bristol Film Office. Bath and North East Somerset has its own film office, which tells the police about every permit application (checked October 2026).
- Bristol Film Office asks for at least £5m public liability and a full risk assessment with every application.
- Network Rail asks for up to £10m at Temple Meads (checked October 2026). On a crew hire, those certificates are yours. On a full production, our policy covers them.
Paying and changes
- Nothing to pay until you confirm the producer.
- 50% by card when you book, 50% on receipt of the final rushes.
- Every line on the quote: day rate, booking fee, kit, travel.
- Moving the date? Tell us as soon as you know.
- Cancellation terms are on every quote.
What our insurance covers
- Employers’ liability for the producer we book: £10m.
- Kit we hire in for you is insured. A large kit rental may need extra insurance, as its own line on the quote.
- Nothing else on a crew hire. Public liability, the location and your own kit stay with you, and your venue will want your certificate. When we’re the producer of record, our policy covers the shoot.
From £450 a day
APA/Bectu card benchmark: £961 a day.
| Day rate, 11 hours | £450 |
| Booking fee, 10% | £45 |
| Insurance, 2% | £9 |
| One day, before travel | £504 + VAT |
The 2% is employers’ liability for the producer we book, and cover on kit we hire in. What it covers
You won’t pay anything until you confirm the producer.
- 50% by card at booking, 50% on the final rushes
- Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours
- Every line on the quote before anything is booked
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The whole crew
Every role in Bristol, booked the same way
One brief, one quote, every role on its own line. Our day rates in Bristol, paid to the crew member in full:
Production 06
- Director From £500
- Producer This page From £450
- Production manager £504–627
- 2nd AD £355–448
- Production assistant £400
- Runner £245
Camera 07
- DOP From £850
- Camera operator £529–656
- Focus puller £461–575
- Clapper loader £355–448
- Steadicam operator From £950
- Gimbal operator £529–656
- Drone operator From £750
Data and playback 02
- DIT £527
- Video playback £334–518
Sound 01
- Sound recordist £550
Hair, make-up and costume 02
- Hair and make-up £398
- Costume £519–694
Art department 02
- Art director £675–878
- Set builders £341–512
Post-production 01
- Editor From £350
How our rates work: crew rates in Bristol. Or start from a set-up: interview crews and units in Bristol.
Production support
Everything around the crew
Half a Bristol producer’s prep happens before anyone picks up a camera: Bristol Film Office, the bays, the bridge, the trains. Each item can go on the quote if you want us to book it.
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Locations and permits
Bristol Film Office, Bath Film Office, the harbour, the bridge and the drone rules.
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Studios and set builds
The Bottle Yard’s stages, green screen and blackout studios, and set builds.
Questions
Hiring a producer in Bristol: questions
How much does a producer cost in Bristol?
Our producers start at £450 for an 11-hour day, including an hour for lunch, and the producer is paid all of it. The APA/Bectu card benchmark for a producer is £961. On top go our 10% booking fee and 2% insurance, so one day comes to £504 + VAT, before any travel from outside Bristol. If you want us to take on the whole production as producer of record, it’s quoted as a production instead: everything at cost, plus 15% and 5% for insurance and contingency, and every production starts at £9,500.
What does the insurance on a crew booking cover?
Two things. Employers’ liability for every crew member we book, up to £10m, and insurance on the kit we hire in for you. That’s what the 2% pays for. A large kit rental may need extra insurance, as its own line on the quote. The 2% doesn’t insure the rest of the shoot: public liability, the location, your own kit and anything you book yourself stay with you, because you’re the producer of record. If you’d rather we were, it’s quoted as a full production, and our insurance covers the whole shoot, public liability included.
Do I need a producer or a production assistant?
If someone has to make decisions on the day, book a producer. A production assistant, at £400 a day, works to them on releases, runs, kit and the call sheet. Busy contributor days often have both.
Can your producer sort the permits in Bristol?
Yes. Filming on council land in Bristol goes through Bristol Film Office, part of Bristol City Council and based at The Bottle Yard Studios. It covers the city only: Bath has its own film office, part of Bath & North East Somerset Council. Bristol Film Office’s council locations include City Docks and the Harbourside, Redcliffe Caves, the parks and the Downs, and interiors such as St Nicholas Market and the council’s museums (checked October 2026). Clifton Suspension Bridge has its own trust and Temple Meads needs Network Rail, each on top. Bristol Film Office asks for at least £5m public liability and a full risk assessment with every application. See filming permits in Bristol.
Can your producer run a Bristol shoot for a production from outside the UK?
Yes. We become the producer of record in the UK: your contract is with us, a UK company, and our producer runs the ground, from crew and permits to vans and hotels, on one invoice, quoted as a production at cost plus 15% and 5%. Bristol Airport has daily flights from Amsterdam, Paris, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast, and the A1 Flyer bus runs to Temple Meads and the bus station up to six times an hour (checked October 2026). See shooting in Bristol from abroad.
Do you make films in Bristol, or only crew them?
Both. Our own films from Bristol and the West include Xanadoo’s concept film, shot at The Forge; a recruitment film for Rise Technical Recruitment; the reopening of H&M’s Bristol store for The Park; and the film for Great Western Credit Union’s first community bond offer, which passed its £800,000 target within weeks of opening and closed above £1.9 million. When you only need a producer, you get one from the same team, on a crew hire.
Do your producers come from Bristol?
Where we can. We’re a crew agency with 2,800+ freelance crew on our books across the UK, 150+ of them in and around Bristol and Bath, so we can scale a crew from one person for a morning to a full unit for a week. Local crew first. When a shoot needs more hands, or a role Bristol is short of that week, we bring them in from across the South West, Cardiff or London, and the travel is on the quote before anything is booked. Our Bristol office is at Raw Space, 111 Gloucester Road, in Bishopston: an office, not a studio. Our headquarters is in London, at 124 City Road. Temple Meads is 1 hour 19 minutes from London Paddington on the fastest trains, 11 minutes from Bath Spa, 48 minutes from Cardiff Central and about 1 hour 25 from Birmingham (checked October 2026).
How far ahead should I book a producer in Bristol?
Our team reads every brief within 2 working hours. If the producer is also booking locations or permits, give them time. Bristol Film Office asks for at least seven days’ notice and a letter to neighbours and businesses seven days before the shoot; a road closure of up to two days needs two weeks, and one of three days or more usually eight to ten weeks (checked October 2026). At Temple Meads, less than five working days’ notice adds £500 (checked October 2026).