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ROLE: POST-PRODUCTION LEAD (PRODUCER / EDITOR)

LOCATION: TORONTO

Company Overview

Come join the fastest growing Marketing agency in Canada. Salt is a new agency with a unique service offering: Experiential Commerce. It’s the blend of marketing, tech and first party data that allows brands to win in today’s congested battle for consumer attention. Our rapidly growing in house content studio, Salt Studios is rapidly expanding to continue to serve our incredible clients, some of Canada’s biggest and most recognizable brands.

Role Overview

Salt Studios, Salt’s in house production company is looking for a Post Production Lead (Producer/Editor) to manage our growing stable of productions. As our Post Production lead (Producer/Editor) you will contribute daily to help keep our growing department deliveries on track: managing post production projects, leading post production workflow, editing on small and medium sized projects, with occasional on set production management and production specific project management.

We are looking for a highly organized, self-motivated, hardworking and creative team player who can thrive while helping to create everything from nimble content to collaborating on large scale broadcast TV productions. This candidate will be required to have extensive organizational, editing and production focused experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee post production on internal studio projects
• Organization and project management of assigned productions with external editors
• Editing and project management of assigned productions
• Occasional on set production related project management
• Organization and archiving of Salt Project drives, files, footage and working files

A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

• 4+ years working as an Editor or Producer
• Deep and Functional experience with Adobe Premiere, After effects and DAM services
• Strong editing, organizational and project management skills with the ability to work under tight deadlines and shifting priorities in a fast moving environment.
• Production & project management experience.
• Direct production experience in digital, broadcast or agency
• Strong understanding of the production process: Video, Photo and Motion Graphic
• Strong knowledge of major platforms their best practices
• Experience with platform native content creation and production
• Has experience leading production and creating digital first content.
• Problem solving mentality
• Has a strong focus on production quality and never cuts creative corners
• Shooting experience is considered a plus but not required

SALT OFFERS

• A competitive company compensation and benefits package
• The dynamic work environment (hybrid) and support of a growing creative agency with a start-up culture
• Flat corporate structure. You’ll be collaborating with both your peers as well as senior brand leaders
• Learning and development opportunities with world-class executives and creatives from across the business, agency, and technology world

SALT’S VALUES: 

• Salt of the Earth: We aspire to be good people. People who are humble, hardworking, honest and kind to one another. People who are fun to work with, who trust and are respectful of each other. 
• Do What’s Right: We don’t believe in taking shortcuts. We believe in doing what is right, not what is easy or expected. 
• Earn It: We believe in rolling up our sleeves and not being afraid of hard work. We want to earn the respect of others, the results we deliver and the praise we receive. 
• Make things Better: We aspire to leave things better than we found them and are always looking for a better way. Great ideas come from anywhere, they come from being curious, passionate, solutions-oriented people who care deeply about what we do 
• Seek Different Perspectives: We believe in embracing difference; the perspective it brings, how it challenges us, how it spurs creativity, and its ability to make us better.   

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Harmonic Finance are proud to be leading the retained search to secure the next Finance Manager for one of the UK’s fast growth production and post-production companies. The position has been newly-created in order to support continued growth plans for 2022 and beyond.

The client

Our client are a film production and commercials company based in central London who are currently using a hybrid work model which they are looking to keep in place over the next year at least. They produce adverts, and shorts as well matching brands with talent through their talent arm. They believe in an audience- first approach and creating content that drives emotional connections they are truly passionate about filmmaking and impactful narrative. The business also take pride in exclusively managing a great talent roster of directors and producers which gives them a fantastic ‘USP’ over many of their competitors.

There are currently thirteen full-time employees, with dozens of freelancers supporting on a production-by-production basis. As a company they are looking to improve head count significantly over the next 12 months as well growing the company turnover by circa 100% in the next 3 years.

The Role

Reporting directly into the Founders and the Financial Director, who works for the business one day a week. This role offers a unique opportunity to have control of a broad range of financial duties as well as having the remit to influence the future strategic direction of the business.

Although your immediate focus will be upon ensuring that ‘business-as-usual’ Finance is shipshape and scalable, the role would best suit an individual with a keen intellect and an eye for operational process improvement within a close-knit creative environment. The company showreel and talent roster is world-class, and with a fast-growing TV & Film development arm the Founders are keen to invest in the Finance function to improve their levels of commercial insight into the business. The aim is to keep financial and operational processes slick and efficient in order to free-up creative colleagues to focus upon what they are best at.

The Finance Manager will maintain over-arching responsibility for the annual company budget, commercial forecasting and process implementation. You will have a real passion for the more commercial and data-driven aspects of accounting is therefore essential. As is the ability to communicate financial insights in a simple, jargon free manner!

Core duties will include:

• Production of monthly management accounts and associated commentary.
• Supporting the Finance Director with working capital management via delivery of cash flow forecasts.
• Overall responsibility for delivering an efficient Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable function in a high-volume transactional environment.
• Financial Planning & Analysis (including margin analysis and creation of KPI dashboards).
• Regular communication with Talent, Producers and Creatives to ensure that the Finance department is a key part of company decision-making (as opposed to being ‘back-office’).
• Delivery of weekly and monthly payroll (identify any shoot payments that need to be processed and run weekly payroll on Sage).
• Raising and sending out customer invoices as well as liaising with new customers to gather information needed to set them up on the internal system.

Company Culture & Ethos

The business prides itself upon having a welcoming, close-knit company culture, centred around their love for production and creativity. All of the team have a deep passion and understanding of the Commercials and TV & Film industry and so – while Commercials experience isn’t a pre-requisite- an appreciation of the creative arts in a broad sense is essential.

In usual (i.e. non-plague) times, the company has an active company social scene centred around the pubs of Fitzrovia and Soho and various other and events. Flexible working is welcomed, although one day out of the three would need to be worked on the Friday to ensure that you are

What we need to see (Essential)

• Strong commercial project accounting experience within a Creative Agency or Events Production (TV, Film, Advertising, Digital Marketing, Music) environment.
• At least 3 years industry experience in a Finance Manager position.
• Experience of working within an owner-managed business environment.
• An aptitude for process improvement and automation.
• A genuine passion for the creative industries.
• Experience of overseeing payroll approvals.

What we’d like to see (Non-Essential)

• Qualified ACA / ACCA / CIMA.
• Production Accounting experience for TV & Film, Commercials or similar.
• Experience of using Sage.
• Experience of working in a small finance team
• Advanced Excel.
• Any experience of implementing data visualization solutions would be of real benefit.
• Undergraduate degree at 2:1 or above.

Salary

£50-£55k pro rata

Working week

3 days

Interview process

• 1 x interviews with Shianne Curtis (Harmonic Finance)
• 1 x video interview with Founders and Finance Directors
• 1 x financial task

Harmonic Finance™

German Video Producer & Editor

We are a well renowned creative production company based in Soho Square.

We are looking for a German Video Producer & Editor to join our team.

This is a full time position, with the option of remote or office working.

Successful candidates for this role will be able to demonstrate:

• Fluent in German
• Good experience in editing with Adobe Premiere Pro
• Experience in producing branded content for social media, online and app use.
• Proven experience of good research skills, an ability to identify narratives and craft them into compelling scripts
• Excellent self-management in their ability to produce content. Directing, often self-shooting (or direct remotely, owing to COVID-19 restrictions) as well as editing to a high standard.
• Good working knowledge of Adobe After Effects a benefit
• Knowledge and ability to use shooting kits
• Understanding all the technical specs to put together a LIVE studio show
• Ability to meet deadlines without failure
• Experience in obtaining all relevant legal permissions for filming
• Full-time, 6-month contract with possibility to extend
• Remote working within UK with occasional visits to London office

Fin London

Comedy Immersive Theatre Show Casting ASAP in West Hollywood.

CHARACTERS:

BARRY (mid 30s-40s) is a British Trust-Fund boy. He ran away from the family’s estate when he was 18 after being caught in a rather conspicuous position with a goat. He joined the circus for a while and has since been hoping from city to city shagging anything and everything while racking up huge hotel bills. He’s a larger than life gentleman who would have been a Conservative politician in Westminster if he wasn’t so bloody lazy. He has no tact in conversation and subtlety is not in his vocabulary. He is an extremely likeable and charming individual who could “sell snow to the Eskimos!” Think Matt Berry in anything he’s ever been in…but mostly his character Lazlo in ‘What We Do In the Shadows.’

            At the start of the first evening he spots Veronica from across the rooftop pool. Soon they will meet and a fractious love affair will begin…as will the greatest love story ever told.

* Strong comedic performer with a good singing voice needed.

VERONICA (mid 30s) is a cabaret singer with her best days behind her and a bottle of gin in front of  her. She claims to have sung with the best: Sinatra, Bassey…Lauper. These days she hangs around the bar at a Hotel in West Hollywood talking about her heady days on the circuit to anyone that will listen…and even to those that won’t. She’s been in love many times but her heart has been broken just as much. She is a Diva through and through and will perform from her endless repertoire at the drop of a hat…or the downing of a vodka.

            She finds love (again!) when she meets Barry at the hotel. Over the course of the  4 nights there will unfold a tumultuous love affair involving music, a proposal and the surprise visit from a clown called Bozo.

* Strong comedic performer with a good singing voice needed.

BOZO (30’s, American) is a professional clown. He grew up in the circus and has travelled the country several times over in his relatively short life. He’s a deep and serious individual which can be problematic being a clown. His dream is to work in a bank but he never gets passed the first interview stage…because he’s a clown. Essentially, he wants to be taken seriously but generally  people just laugh at him.

            The only person that never laughed at him was Barry. And he has tracked him down to the hotel to profess something to him. Something he hopes will be reciprocated and perhaps give him the confidence to become what he always wanted to be: a bank teller.

* Strong comedic performer with a good singing voice needed.

Casting Call

Sophie Holland Casting

We’re looking for an experienced Cellist for a brilliant role in one episode of a new series for STARZ/Lionsgate. Please see below for more details.

Cellist:

• Male
• Playing Age: 20 – 30
• Any Ethnicity

The calm amongst the storm, a beautifully talented Cellist player. Incredibly ambitious and forever wanting to better himself. Eventually steps out of place and crosses a line he can’t come back from.

Filming in Budapest from Jan – May 2022.

Los Angeles

Major Female Pop Artist & Major Female Hip Hop Artist Music Video

Looking for:

Artist Love Interest x 2:

• Male
• Any Ethnicity
• Ages 21 to 30
• Eccentric – Unique Features
• Rate: $1,000 per day (10 – 12 Hours)

High Fashion Models x 4

• Female Any Ethnicity
• Ages 18 to 28
• Eccentric – Unique Features
• Must be comfortable w/ implied nudity
• Rate: $715 per day (8 – 10 hours)

Shoot Dates: December 5, 6, 7 – Sunday / Monday / Tuesday

High school Students (1-3 day booking) 

• RATE: $88 / 8
• $30 COVID BUMP —> TESTING 11.30
• FILMING 12.2, 6, & 7 (NOT REQUIRED TO WORK ALL DAYS)
• ANY GENDER // ANY ETHNICITY // 18+ YRS THAT APPEARS HIGH SCHOOL AGE
• $25 CAR BUMP IF BOOKED WITH VEHICLE- WE WILL NEED SOME VEHICLES ON 12.7 (NO WHITE OR BLACK CARS)
• PLEASE INDICATE IF YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE AT TAP DANCING OR DOUBLE DUTCH JUMP (OPTIONAL)

High School Staff & Parents (1-3 day booking) 

• RATE: $88 / 8
• $30 COVID BUMP —> TESTING 11.30
• FILMING 12.2, 6, & 7 (NOT REQUIRED TO WORK ALL DAYS)
• ANY GENDER // ANY ETHNICITY // 18-100 YRS
• $25 CAR BUMP IF BOOKED WITH VEHICLE- WE WILL NEED SOME VEHICLES ON 12.7 (NO WHITE OR BLACK CARS)

Police, Paramedics, Firefighters (with real experience) 

• RATE: $200 / 12
• $30 COVID BUMP —> TESTING 11.30
• FILMING 12.2 ONLY
• ANY GENDER // ANY ETHNICITY // 18-100 YRS
• PLEASE LIST YOUR REAL POLICE/PARAMEDIC/FIREFIGHTER EXPERIENCE

NOW CASTING HYPNOSIS APP – NON UNION 

Comedic spot for a self hypnosis French app

Audition: Self-Tape

Shooting: Wednesday, December 1st 2021  in Montreal, QC

Rates: $200-$400

Usage: Web only 

Silent On Camera Roles:

• Caroline – All Ethnicities. Female, 27-37 years old. A city girl. Must be good at satire and physical comedy.
  • Rate: $400 full day 
• Boss – All Ethnicities. Male or Female, 40-60 years old. Boss of a big accounting firm with an approachable and professional smile. 
  • Rate: $200 half day 

NOW CASTING PAID EXTRAS (Ages 18 +) to portray DOMINO PLAYERS  for the NEW DC Comic series “NAOMI” for THURSDAY, 12/2/2021.

CAB Castings, LLC. is looking for PAID EXTRAS for a new series on THE CW based on DC Comics series “NAOMI” that will be filming here in Atlanta, GA.

We are casting for the following specific extras for scenes on THURSDAY DECEMBER 2, 2021 in Atlanta,GA:

– REAL DOMINO PLAYERS

***Ages 18 +

***All Races

*** Rate: $100/8 + $25 per Covid Test 

*** Prelim Call Time: TBD (Please have open availability on day of interest)

***WE ASK THAT WHEN BOOKED AS A PAID EXTRA, YOU BE PREPARED TO WORK AT LEAST A 12HR WORK DAY AS WE DONT KNOW HOW LONG YOU WILL BE SPECIALLY ON SET… SO PLEASE HAVE OPEN AVAILABILITY FOR THE DAY YOU SUBMIT FOR!!! ***

COVID TESTING:

***Must be available for COVID 19 testing at our testing location close to Fulton Industrial. The exact location we will disclose at booking.

If interested in working this day, your 1 MANDATORY TESTING DATE IS :

– TUESDAY 11/30/2021 (Between 7am and 12pm ONLY) 

-Testing is NASAL PCR and you will receive a $25 COVID TESTING BUMP on your voucher the day you report to set for each test taken. YOU MUST REPORT TO SET TO RECEIVE THIS BUMP! Test from other productions are not valid on this set as each production has their own Covid guidelines and labs. Your results must come from the designated lab that all cast and crew use on this production.

The rate for this specific paid extra on this production is $100 for 8hrs of work (Paid time in a half each hour after 8 hrs), which you will receive in the form of a check in the mail 2 to 3 weeks after filming.

*FBI Series Featured Casting Notice* 

Brand New FX/Disney Series Looking For Males, Any ethnicity, 20s-50 yrs old, to work as SUSPECTS, Thursday December 2nd! Must COVID test either Tuesday or Wednesday of that week! We are a mandatory Zone A feature and all talent must be fully vaccinated (1st and 2nd dose), must be 2 weeks since your second dose, and able to provide a vaccine card!

• Looking for Males, 20-50 yrs old, any ethnicity, to play SUSPECTS!
• Pay Rate: $150/12
• COVID bump: $50