Production guidance
Scoping, budgets, schedules, crew design, logistics, and a calm senior perspective before the cameras roll.
Brief → plan
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Production support collective / Chicago + nationwide
Your creative,
fully supported.
TOTES helps agencies, in-house creative teams, and production companies scale photo + video work with senior production guidance and experienced camera teams.
How wehelp↘
Plug us in where you need us
A senior production bench,
without the overhead.
Bring us a brief, a gap, or a production already in motion. We can advise the approach, build the crew, lead capture, or quietly reinforce your team from prep through organized handoff.
Camera teams
Cinematography, commercial photography, drone, and field crews assembled around the realities of the assignment.
Lean crew → full unitProduction extension
White-label execution, multi-market capture, content libraries, and clean asset delivery that make one shoot work harder.
One location → nationwideWE CAN LEAD THE PRODUCTION / OR MAKE YOUR EXISTING TEAM STRONGER
Selected exposures / 2021–2026
Stuff We've Helped Create
Production support in practice—
from lean crews to 200+ assets.
Selected clients + collaborators
NBC UNIVERSALAMAZONOPTIMUM NUTRITIONGRABBER CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTSPAULANER HP USAGREATWATER 360 AUTO CARE
TOTES.TV / Production support collective
Built to plug in.
Ready to lead.
TOTES is a senior core team and trusted nationwide network built to strengthen the creative and production teams already doing good work.
We work behind agencies, in-house teams, and production companies as a flexible extension of their crew—bringing producers, cinematographers, photographers, and practical guidance wherever the production needs more experience or capacity. When a business comes to us directly, we can help define the content need and lead the work from brief through delivery.
Guide
Scope / Budget / Plan / Logistics
Capture
Cinematography / Photography / Drone
Scale
Crews / Markets / Libraries / Handoff
MODEL Senior core / Nationwide production bench
BUILT FOR Agencies / In-house teams / Production companies
ALSO Direct-to-business / Identity + content guidance
BASED Chicago / Working nationwide
Support without stepping on toes
How we work
- 01
Start with the gap.
Bring us the brief, the challenge, or the part of production that needs another experienced brain.
- 02
Build the right support.
We fit the plan, crew, and footprint to your team—whether that means one cinematographer or a nationwide production unit.
- 03
Make your team look good.
We communicate clearly, run a clean set, and hand back useful, organized assets without adding another layer of theater.
From our collaborators
“We had an ambitious creative idea & weren’t exactly sure how we were going to pull it off… TOTES & team not only helped us pull it off with flying colors—they made it a truly enjoyable and memorable experience for everyone involved.”
Conor PriceJLL Real Estate
Need a production brain—or a full crew?