Second Assistant Directors

Here is how this works in practice. We place skilled second assistant directors with shoots filming in Serbia, drawn from a competitively priced, growing Belgrade-centred crew base. The second AD works off the shooting floor. Building and distributing daily call sheets, scheduling cast through makeup, wardrobe and transport, setting up background artists with local extras agencies, and wrapping the production reports and time logs that feed accounting and rebates records. They keep the first AD informed and supplied, so the floor runs without interruption.

Here is the short of it. Our second ADs are bilingual in Serbian and English, making sure call sheets and instructions read clearly for both global crews and local departments, and they know Serbian labour rules on crew hours and rest periods. Because Serbia's film-services industry is competitively priced, shoots secure seasoned second-AD support in dinar at rates well below Western Europe, and the 25-30% cash rebates through the Film in Serbia programme of the Serbia Film Commission improves the value when their work qualifies. We brief candidates on schedule and scale, then connect you directly.

Here is the breakdown. A second AD in Serbia sets up cast and background across a different, well-connected country. Belgrade, set where the Sava meets the Danube, has grown into a busy regional production hub with the today's PFI Studios near Simanovci nearby, and a decade of global work — including Ralph Fiennes's 'Coriolanus'. Has built a deep pool of background performers and a skilled extras-casting network. Productions also move to Novi Sad. The Vojvodina flats, the Djerdap gorge and the mountains of Tara and Zlatibor, so a second AD plans cast transport and holding around real distances.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Serbia is centrally placed in the Balkans, well connected by road, with Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport as the main gateway, and the time zone is CET. The country is an EU candidate but not an EU member and not in the Schengen Area, the currency is the dinar. Practical points a second AD factors into cast and crew logistics.