Commercials & image films in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Short, dense shooting days with several set-ups: the changeover between two locations decides the schedule, not the number of takes.
Staffing
Film and production staff in Berlin: set crew, runners, production assistants
Quiet when the camera rolls, quick when the set changes, never in the shot.
Production assistants, set crew and set runners for commercials, series, streaming and corporate shoots in Berlin and Brandenburg — for a single shooting day or a block of weeks. From 26 €/h net.
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New client rate from 26 €/h!
Your contact for Film & production staff
Selina Turing | Shift Management
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Short answer
Booking set crew in Berlin — the short answer
Set crew and production assistants in Berlin cost from 26 €/h net per person as a new client, regularly 28 €/h net, with a minimum booking of 5 hours. Four assistants for a ten-hour shooting day therefore come to 1,040 € net. Our crews handle everything around the shoot: lock-offs and blocking, transport, set-up and tear-down, crew catering and runs. Shooting days move — so we brief on waiting times, radio discipline and the rule that on set only the production manager calls the shots. We do not supply camera, lighting, sound, make-up or production management.
Get a price in 60 seconds → (opens in a new tab)What our set crews do
Lock-offs & blocking
Securing the shooting area, politely redirecting passers-by and talking to residents before it turns into a conflict. On Berlin location shoots that decides the schedule more often than the technology.
Set-up & changeovers
Carrying equipment, laying cable, moving props and changing over fast between two set-ups — without anyone hunting for their kit afterwards.
Runs & logistics
Moving material, food and paperwork between set, base camp and production office. If that becomes a full-time job, book a dedicated set runner for it.
Where we work
Where we work on shoots
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Series & studio productions in Adlershof
Our longest film jobs run in the media city of Adlershof: the same people for weeks, days of six to ten hours, regular call times.
Crew catering & base camp
Coffee before the first take, lunch on time, a tidy base camp at wrap. Catering and base-camp staff from the same team as your set crew.
Locations in Brandenburg
Potsdam, Ludwigsfelde, Königs Wusterhausen, Grünheide: outside Berlin the travel time from the city limit counts as working time — in return the crew arrives together and on time.
Just the runs, not a whole crew
When the set is built and someone just has to keep fetching things, one person is enough: the set runner is the mobile role between base camp, set and rental house.
Recognise your occasion? Put the team together and see the price — no sign-up needed.
Put your team together (opens in a new tab)Rates & terms
What set crew costs in Berlin
All prices per person and hour, minimum booking 5 hours. What moves the price is not the work on site — it is how much say you want in who is assigned.
Incl. 19 % VAT
New client rate 26 €/h 30.94 €/h instead of 28 €/h 33.32 €/h on the base rate
The new client rate applies to the first 50 person-hours of your first working day, provided the quote comes from the price calculator and you confirm within three days.
Base rate
28 € 33.32 € / hour net / hour incl. VAT
Vetted staff for all standard roles. We select and schedule the team.
What you get
- Staff we have vetted and briefed ourselves
- Suitable for every standard role
- Selection and scheduling handled by us
- No say in who is assigned
Base rate + curation
34 € 40.46 € / hour net / hour incl. VAT
You decide who comes — or give us a profile to select against.
Base rate, plus
- You pick your own team
- Selection by profile: language, gender, experience
- Profiles visible before you book
- +6 €/h curation surcharge on the base rate
Curation + bartender or barista
40 € 47.60 € / hour net / hour incl. VAT
For when the person behind the bar or the espresso machine has actually trained for it.
Curation, plus
- Cocktail bartender with their own menu
- Barista on the espresso machine
- Chosen by you, as with curation
- +6 €/h per booked specialist
The rate applies per person: every specialist you book costs +6 €/h — also without curation, which makes 34 €/h. A team lead is not a tier; it appears as its own surcharge below.
Included in every hourly rate — at every tier
- Bookable from five hours per person — no day rates, no packages. Billing is for at least the time booked, in half-hour increments
- Cover is included in the hourly rate — if someone drops out at short notice, a replacement steps in with no surcharge
- Licensed for temporary agency work (AÜG): you may direct our staff on site yourself, legally sound as agency work. A service contract is equally possible
- Overtime at the same hourly rate, with no mark-up
- You see who is coming before the shift: photo, name and a short profile of every person assigned, in our client portal
- Staffing status stays visible throughout — from the moment the order arrives to the last position filled
- Digital timesheet: hours confirmed on site by phone, the PDF follows automatically, one collected invoice at month end
- On set, calls come from the production manager, not from us — every crew member is briefed on that
- Confidentiality on set: no photos, no posts, no talk about content, cast or locations
- The same crew across a shooting block where availability allows, at no extra cost
- Quotes, briefings and invoices in English on request
- Travel inside Berlin included whenever a train or tram stop is within ten minutes’ walk at both ends of the shift
Larger clients are quoted individually. For high volume, recurring shifts or framework agreements we quote individually — get in touch.
Not sure which tier fits? +49 179 6870788 contact form
How it works
Booking a set crew — how it works
From enquiry to shift in four steps — no contract lock-in, bookable from 5 hours.
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Tell us six things
Location, date, working hours, number of people, the task and the dress code. With those six we can start staffing; contact person, access and billing details can follow.
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Get a price straight away
The calculator does the arithmetic with your actual times and gives you a quote as a PDF — every surcharge on its own line, no sign-up, no phone call.
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A personal reply
A person reads your enquiry and comes back with questions or a confirmation — not an auto-responder. That takes under 24 minutes.
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Binding confirmation
Once the details are settled you get a binding confirmation and the shift goes into our scheduling. Usually within two hours of the enquiry.
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You see the team
Photo, name and short profile of each person assigned appear in the client portal. Briefing documents go to the team, not just to you.
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On the day
The team arrives briefed and on time. Your contact stays reachable throughout — one number, one person, not a rota of call handlers.
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Hours and invoice
Hours are recorded on a digital timesheet you countersign. The invoice follows from that record, with every surcharge itemised.
Step one takes under a minute: enter the details, get a quote as a PDF.
Start with step 1 (opens in a new tab)Set crew in Berlin: the numbers
- people we can activate
- 200+
- The pool we can call on for a shift in Berlin and Brandenburg.
- net for four assistants, ten hours
- 1,040 €
- One shooting day at the 26 € new client rate.
- longest planned shooting day
- 15 h
- Split into two shifts — German working-time law does not allow one person to work that long.
- until a personal reply
- < 24 min
- From your enquiry to an answer from a person, not an auto-responder.
- Google rating
- 5.0 ★
- Across 35+ reviews on our Google Business profile.
Why set crew works differently from event staff
On set, what counts is that people understand how a shooting day works: quiet when the camera rolls, hands on when the set changes, never in the shot. The biggest difference from events is the waiting — someone who stands for an hour between two set-ups and then has to deliver in five minutes needs a different temperament from someone behind a bar. That is exactly what we select for. International production? Most of our crew also speak English; say so in your enquiry.
The difference shows from five hours upwards. Work out what your shift costs.
Calculate your price (opens in a new tab)Reviews: production and event staff in Berlin
Based on 35+ reviews · 5.0 out of 5
GoogleCR
Wir haben kurzfristig Unterstützung für unsere Hochzeit gebraucht und über staffconnect schnell passendes Servicepersonal gefunden. Der Kontakt war super schnell und persönlich, jederzeit erreichbar. [...]
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Der Preis wirkte für mich zuerst ‚zu gut‘. Nach mehreren Einsätzen hat StaffConnect jedoch vollständig überzeugt: verlässliche Besetzung, pünktliche und professionelle Mitarbeiter, proaktive [...]
AJ
Wir haben über StaffConnect einen Barkeeper für unsere Hochzeitsfeier gebucht und sind rundum begeistert. Die gesamte Kommunikation und alle Absprachen verliefen freundlich, schnell und völlig [...]
AD
Wir haben für ein Event kurzfristig Personal gebraucht und super unkompliziert eine sehr qualifizierte Person bekommen. Alles lief sehr leicht und ohne Probleme, das hat uns sehr geholfen. Klare [...]
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From our client portal
What clients write about our staff after the job
After every job our clients rate the people who worked for them, internally in the StaffConnect client portal. Only the client who booked the job can rate it. The quotes below are shown in the original German, exactly as written.
- ★★★★★Rated after the job · 09/2026
„Zuverlässig und sehr nett. Gute Arbeit =)“
ClientSocial media production, BerlinAbout our staff memberExtra · commercial shoot - ★★★★★Rated after the job · 09/2026
„Eine sehr große Hilfe in allen Bereichen, sehr proaktiv und die ganze Zeit wunderbar präsent und freundlich. Eine wirklich tolle Zusammenarbeit. Immer gerne wieder!“
ClientCommunications agency, BerlinAbout our staff memberServer · company party - ★★★★★Rated after the job · 09/2026
„Super zuverlässig, pünktlich, proaktiv und hilfsbereit und super freundlich. Wir waren sehr begeistert.“
ClientConference organiserAbout our staff memberSet-up and tear-down · conference
Internal ratings our clients gave our staff after the job, submitted in the client portal or when confirming the digital timesheet. Selected by StaffConnect; names of clients and staff removed, cuts marked with …; quotes in the original German, not translated.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about film and production staff
Answer
From 26 €/h net per person as a new client, regularly 28 €/h net, minimum 5 hours. The new client rate applies if you create the quote in the price calculator, confirm within three days and book with us for the first time. Example: four production assistants on a ten-hour shooting day cost 4 × 10 × 26 € = 1,040 € net as a new client.
Production assistants work as a team on location: set-up and tear-down, transport, changeovers, lock-offs. The set runner is the mobile single role connecting base camp, set, rental house and catering, reachable on radio all day. The production manager plans the day, holds the permits and the schedule and calls the shots. We staff the first two, not the third.
Camera, lighting, sound, make-up, art department and production management — every department that needs its own training and carries its own responsibility. We supply the people around them.
Locking off, blocking, redirecting passers-by and talking to residents — yes, that is part of the role. Guarding, checking people or physically enforcing house rules is not: in Germany that is a security service under § 34a of the Trade Regulation Act and belongs to a licensed security company.
Under the German Working Hours Act, usually eight and, with compensation, up to ten hours per working day; from six hours of work a 30-minute break is required, from nine hours 45 minutes. Longer days we split across two shifts.
All speak German, most also English. If your production runs in English, say so in the enquiry and we staff accordingly.
No. We supply people. Vans, base-camp tents, barrier material and permits for public land come from your production or a rental house. Our crew sets up, looks after and operates what is there, and drives production vehicles if agreed beforehand — say so in the enquiry and we staff people with a category B licence.
Yes. All are employed by us with full social insurance, deployed under the AÜG and briefed on set safety and set etiquette through our training portal. We pay wages and contributions as the employer — you get one invoice instead of a handful of short-term contracts you would have to register yourself.
Yes: set runners and production assistants come exclusively from our own pool, and the only way in is the questionnaire on our jobs page (in German). Good German is a requirement for these roles.
Question not covered? info@staffconnect.agency +49 179 6870788
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