Services we provide:

Our Core Service: Historical Coordination:

As specialists in this sector, we can provide production management, historical consulting and a wide range of history-related production services. Often we function as subcontracting producers working under a client's production team to organize and manage the historical re-creations portion of a film shoot.

We can put together a production services team custom tailored to the client's needs - anything from deploying a complete self-contained "B unit" which we manage on the client's behalf to providing specific services on an ad hoc basis -- casting one actor, providing one key prop, helping you nail down a key location.

Project Budgeting & Planning:
We have lengthy experience in planning and budgeting film & TV shoots, with a particular emphasis on historical re-creations. How many shooting days does it take to do battle scenes? How can I schedule my project to save money and maximize resources? Are there tax or other benefits in shooting in different locations?

What should I budget for reenactor extras day rates and numbers? How many do we need to shoot my scene? Is there pre-existing stock footage out there that can cover my larger scenes? Can we get permission to shoot footage at a reenactment and will it look OK?

What kind of special effects are needed? Does the scenario involve any additional safety / insurance implications to be accounted for? What do gunfire-trained horses cost and what are their special needs? What does artillery cost? How about wagons? Boats? Antique vehicles? Where do we get a Sherman tank? Heck, where do we get Sherman?

These are the types of questions that we are routinely called upon to answer, thereby saving in-house line producers and UPMs considerable time, energy and money. We are proficient in EP / Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling software and speak the language not only of the production world but also of the world of living history re-creationists. In any area where we don't have "know how", we've got "know WHO".

Areas where we can assist include:

• Provision of specialist crew experienced in period pieces / historical documentaries, including battle wounds FX makeup artists, period hair specialists, Special Effects technicians / pyrotechnicians, stuntmen, safety personnel and set medics;
• Casting of look alikes for historical personages and other principals;
• Reenactor and historical actor recruitment & casting -- both civilian and military -- infantry, artillery and cavalry, through our casting database Reenactors.TV;
• Military coordination, including moving re-created armies for the camera, fight choreography and "wrangling" large numbers of extras;
• Wardrobe services: costume design, research, fabrication and rentals of historically-accurate wardrobe, through our sister company Cleydael Historical Wardrobe;
• Production design / Art Department services:  material culture accuracy consulting and provision of period-correct props, furniture & set dressing materials and history-experienced set construction crews.
• Armorers and weaponry -- for all periods, civilian and military small arms, edged weapons & artillery;
• Gunfire-trained horses and riders / wranglers and period-correct farm and domestic animals with on-camera experience;
• Period vehicles: horses and carriages, ox carts, period boats / ships, antique automobiles, military vehicles;
• Wardrobe services: costume design, research, fabrication and rentals of historically-accurate wardrobe through our sister company Cleydael Historical Wardrobe;
• Period locations identification, scouting and location management;
• Specialist skills experts: covering a wide range of areas: reenactors with medical / battlefield surgeon impressions -- complete with accurate proppage; period craftspeople with period appropriate tools, open-hearth cooking & farming practitioners, period dancers, parlor games experts, boat handlers, period photographers -- you name it, we probably know the right people;
• Period musicians & entertainers for soundtrack recording and/or obtaining the rights to relevant pre-recorded material;
• Historical research, script & dialogue consulting, identification of period image "flat art", and recruitment of historians for head to camera interviews;
• Identification and evaluation of pre-existing "B Roll" / archival footage;
• Payroll services for cast and crew: one-stop shopping, write one check instead of many.
• Casting / Headshot Management Systems: For larger client projects needing their own casting database, we can customize our Reenactors.TV software and provide clients with their own custom designed online casting systems. Why handle hundreds of hard-copy paper resumes & headshots when you can have it all online - searchable by age, ethnicity, gender, skills, geography?

Other Services:
In addition to our core services in the historical production services field, we are also able to assist clients in other areas, including:

• Fundraising & Development:
• Film, & Multimedia Production:
• Public Affairs Documentaries.

More about our capabilities in these areas.