Film extras and casting for productions
Film extras make a scene believable without drawing the eye: commuters crossing behind the lead, a concert crowd, diners at the next table, a studio audience applauding on cue. We supply them to film and television productions, to agencies making commercials and to businesses filming their own events, along with background actors for closer work when the scene gives someone a defined action. The platform covers cities across Europe and we operate in Italy, Germany and Spain, so the search starts from the place where the set will stand.
A single extras casting call can hold several kinds of role. Crowd work needs numbers and a coherent general look, featured extras are filmed at closer range or given a small action inside the scene, and a commercial may want only a few faces with a very specific character. Period drama and documentary add conditions on age, physique or wardrobe, which the production sets and the selection follows.
Productions and events we staff
Extras go on set for work that reaches cinemas and for videos that never leave a company intranet, and we staff both ends of that range:
- Feature films and drama series: crowd scenes, street exteriors and period sequences with the wardrobe requirements the production sets.
- TV shoots and studio recordings: audiences for formats recorded in episodes and background for location segments.
- Commercials: advert extras for a single characterised role or for a full street, with the look the agency has briefed.
- Corporate videos and brand content: people in shot for a company film, a training video or a product clip.
- Music videos, web series and documentaries, each with its own numbers and scene requirements.
- Filmed live events: event background actors for a convention or a product launch recorded on camera, where the shot needs people in the room.
When the camera needs a more defined presence, such as a stand filmed at a trade fair, a product presentation or a catwalk, the selection moves to promotional models or to the modeling agency for events. Those are separate routes with their own criteria. A set that also needs hostesses at a registration desk, bartenders for a party scene or a chef for a cooking segment can add them to the same request, since the platform supplies event staff for every need. Other formats, from a theatre piece recorded for streaming to an installation filmed with its visitors, follow the same selection as film work.
How casting works with ToGet4U
Everything starts from the brief: the number of extras, the age range, the city, the shooting days and the requirements of the scene. A dedicated Event Manager reads it and prepares a comprehensive quote. Once you accept it, the Event Manager filters the registered profiles against those criteria and sends you a curated shortlist of people available on your dates. You compare the profiles and decide who goes on set, and the Event Manager stays your contact from the first request until the shoot is over.
The people on a shortlist signed up for free and built their own profile with photos and experience. They apply for the work they want from their account area, in the same way candidates browse modeling jobs and the other listings on the platform. Availability on your shooting days is the first thing the Event Manager checks. Where open movie extras casting calls leave a production sorting replies one by one, the shortlist arrives already matched to the brief.
Scale is what makes a large crowd scene possible away from the major cities: over 50,000 professionals are registered, and ToGet4U handled more than 1,800 events in 2025. Across the platform, 90% of selections are closed within 48 hours in peak weeks. Once you have chosen, everyone cast as an extra signs a digital contract on the platform, and the quote covers their fees with statutory contributions, the agency costs of contracting them and a dedicated Event Manager.
Photos and scene requirements before the shoot
A recent photo is a casting criterion like age or city, and a brief that asks to see one before confirming gets it built into the selection. Wardrobe notes and a period look belong in the same brief, so the shortlist reflects them from the start. Costume fittings and any screen test are then arranged by the production with the people it has chosen, on the dates it sets.
How to request film extras
The request can come from the production office or from one of the casting companies for extras working on its behalf. No account is needed to send it.
- Your request goes in with the production, the city, the shooting days, the number of extras and the scene requirements.
- A comprehensive quote comes back, free and with no obligation.
- Once you accept it, you receive the available profiles, compare them and pick the people for the shoot.
A music video shot in one afternoon and a drama spread over several weeks ask for very different things, and the request can describe either in plain words: what is being filmed, where, on which days, and how many people with which look. Request a free quote with those details, and the Event Manager builds the proposal around them.