Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

***NON UNION & UNION ONLY*** 

Must be registered with Central Casting!!!!! Must pass COVID test to work. Even if you test negative, you are not confirmed for work unless we send you details confirming shoot day.

Brenda is taking submissions for a show that will Covid Test Saturday (12/4) to work Monday (12/6) in LA area.

• Looking for REAL YOUNG COUPLES who are ok kissing their partner on screen! Appearing 18-28 years old.

This production has a mandatory vaccination policy for all Zone A workers, including Background Actors, Stand-Ins, and other talent ages 12 and above, working on its set.  To be eligible to work on this production, you must be either (1) fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine (Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson) or (2) have a disability or sincerely-held religious belief that prevents vaccination.  Any offer of work is “conditioned” on you providing adequate proof to Production that you meet either of the two criteria mentioned above.  If you are unable to show adequate proof to Production, then you are ineligible to be hired for this particular Production.  Please answer “yes” to this message if you can supply adequate proof to Production.  

If you answer “yes,” you are hereby attesting to the fact that you will provide such adequate proof to Production.  Do not send your proof to Central Casting.  Production will collect and verify your proof.

NOTE: Must be okay with any form test (nasal swabs, etc). Additional testing may also be done on workdays. While at the test facility and on set, Production requires that a face mask that covers your nose and mouth be worn.  

In order to be considered, you MUST update your profile with a current photo, and you MUST complete the Anti-Harassment Training in order to work

Local to Chicago, suburbs, and the surrounding border states to IL.

• MALES and FEMALES, all ethnicities, 20’s to 50’s, to play CPD Officers (Non real) on Friday, Dec. 10th and Monday, Dec. 13th. You will need to attend a covid test Wednesday, Dec. 8th. 

IMPORTANT NOTES:

For the health and safety of all individuals on “Chicago MED,” all “Zone A” cast and crew MUST be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to beginning work. 

We will consider reasonable accommodations as required by law for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a disability or a sincerely held religious belief, practice or observance. 

NOW CASTING PAID BG TALENT FOR SEASON 3 OF FIRST WIVES CLUB!! 

12/9 & 12/10 in Atlanta GA area! 

1. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP

Any ethnicity Males & Females

Appears Ages: 20-40

Work Date: 12/9/2021

Covid-19 Testing Date: 12/8/2021

2. FUNERAL ATTENDEES

Any ethnicity Males & Females

Ages: 18+

Work Date: 12/10/2021

Covid-19 Testing Date: 12/9/2021

MUST have dark funeral attire!

*This role may work multiple days!!

Background Rate: $135/12+ot

-Paid in the form of check via Castifi

-Must have valid identification to work in the US

-Dates are subject to change

-Must be available to work all day. Shoots can be 12+ hours (18+ only)

-May be booked for additional days

-Must have fulltime availability 

Shoot Location:  ATLANTA, GA (AREA)

-Some locations may be outside of perimeter or not on Marta/bus line 

MANDATORY COVID-19 TESTING: 

-MUST test with Production prior to start date

Testing Bump: +$30 (paid on work day)

-NO outside tests will be accepted at this time. 

Serious inquires only. Please only submit if you have full open availability

**DISNEY Feature RUSH Casting Notice**

We are looking for EXPERIENCED WALTZ DANCERS, for an incredible RECURRING, FEATURED BG opprortunity, on a HUGE Disney feature! Dancers MUST meet the criteria below:

• Males: 5’9-5’11; 40″ chest; 34-38″ waist
• Female: 5’7-5’9; 26″ waist

The dancers will need to covid test tomorrow and come in Friday morning (12/3) for a fitting. They will also need to covid test again Monday, 12/6, and shoot Tuesday, 12/7! We will have additional dates in January!

Feature film SCHEME QUEENS now casting paid BG talent in Atlanta for a short day shoot!

• Casting CAUCASIAN MALES
• 18+ 

Date: 12/6/2021

Rate: $65/day (only half day shoot)

The Opportunity:

Have you got social media marketing experience in an agency environment, and looking for the next challenge for you? My client who is a global communications agency leading in entertainment and tv is looking for an exceptional Social Account Manager to join the social team and to deliver stand-out social campaigns for Hollywood movie brands.

Responsibilities:

• Working closely with the creative studio team to create social media campaigns and content across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
• Working closely with a dedication to delivering world-class content.
• Being the day-to-day client contact and management.
• Community management on social media channels.
• Project management and report creation and management.

Experience needed:

• 2-4 years social media marketing experience, ideally experience with entertainment clients
• Passion for entertainment, movies, and film

Want to learn more? Apply here or email [email protected]

SUMO London

Creative Manager

Based in the beautiful town of Shrewsbury, 7video is a media production company offering Film, Animation, Drone and Timelapse services across the UK. Our team is made up of creatives working on a wide range of B2B and B2C projects covering a vast spectrum of industries.

We are looking for a talented individual to join our team who is commercially-minded, highly personable, proactive, extremely well organised, multi-tasking, works well independently, creative and strives to give excellent service.

We are seeking a Creative Manager who can take projects from brief to completion and excel in delivering our client’s needs, by developing and maintaining successful relationships, through working with our crews to create amazing productions.

The role and responsibilities

Required basic experience should include:

• 3+ years experience within a marketing based role or agency
• Experience in managing projects – ideally co-ordinating multiple projects simultaneously
• Highly organised with a clear working process and structure
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with excellent attention to detail
• Strong work ethic & goal oriented
• A creative and flexible mind, enjoys a challenge and has fun problem solving
• Self-sufficient, knowing when to ask questions and when to be proactive
• Works well under pressure and to deadlines
• Works well independently as well as in a team
• Daily expectations will include; client liaison including meetings, presenting to clients, script-writing, storyboarding, co-ordinating projects/shoots with the creative team.
• All whilst smiling, having fun, bringing your creativity to the table and providing great service to our customers.

Benefits

• Genuinely awesome team to work with
• Cool open plan office space
• Flexible working – both hours and days from home if needed
• Company contributed pension scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Parking
• We have a pool table and games console.

Salary

£26k – £30k

What’s next?

If you would like to be part of our passionate team working in a rewarding environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Please email [email protected] with your CV and current salary

7video Ltd

Entertainment Benefits Group

Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a subscription-led and digitally focused media and marketing solutions company committed to empowering communities to thrive. With an unmatched reach at the national and local level, Gannett touches the lives of millions with our Pulitzer-Prize winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services.

Our current portfolio of media assets includes USA TODAY, local media organizations in 46 states in the U.S., and Newsquest, a wholly owned subsidiary operating in the United Kingdom with more than 120 local news media brands. Gannett also owns the digital marketing services companies ReachLocal, Inc., UpCurve, Inc., and WordStream, Inc., which are marketed under the LOCALiQ brand, and runs the largest media-owned events business in the U.S., USA TODAY NETWORK Ventures.

To connect with us, visit www.gannett.com.

Associate Video Producer
This position is specifically for video journalists, not those pursuing film careers.
If you have the special ability to find and create compelling video content for digital platforms, then this job is for you!

The USA TODAYNETWORK is looking for a natural-born-news-junky-associate-video-producer to join USA TODAY NETWORK’s Video team.
If you’re always in the know about what’s going on in the news and can creatively translate that to video form, we need you! Viewers can get their facts from a quick skim of an article, but our way of storytelling is keeping them there to watch video. If you think you’ve got what it takes to create video content that is transforming the way viewers are consuming their news, we have a space for you at the USA TODAY Network.

The Associate Video Producer will work with Senior Producers and Producers at the Video Production Center (VPC) to create news videos for USA TODAY and the USA TODAY Network local news digital platforms as well as social platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. Candidates must have experience working in a newsroom (internships are ok). Candidates should be comfortable multi tasking and working in a fast paced environment.
We are looking for someone with the patience and drive to spend hours tracking down news-adjacent stories, facts, photos, and b-roll to create an amazing multimedia story about the newsiest items of the day.

To be considered please provide a resume, cover letter and links to examples of your work.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside current production staff to create, write, edit, publish, program, and share news videos across all USA TODAY NETWORK’s digital platforms.
• Collecting and organizing assignments.
• Maintain communication with the video team leaders, National News Desk, USA TODAY editors, writers and reporters and local USA TODAY NETWORK properties.
• Edit and produce videos for nationally significant news stories, buzzy/trending stories, special features and social video content.
• Obtain video and information from USA TODAY NETWORK properties for production.
• Contribute original story ideas, write, produce, and edit video content to be published across the USA TODAY NETWORK.
• Monitor social media and third-party content providers to find and produce videos.
• Write, produce, and edit your own news videos.
• Handle other essential tasks as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in communications, journalism or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 1 year of newsroom experience is required, preferably in a television or digital newsroom and/or equivalent video news experience.
• Experience with social media and creating videos for social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram.
• Detail-oriented, have strong editorial judgment, be able to think like a journalist, have time management skills and be able to work independently with limited supervision as well as within a group.
• Motivated, self-starter who can multi-task and communicate effectively across multiple groups.
• Ability to write engaging headlines and other video metadata.
• Ability to write engaging headlines and other video metadata.
• Understanding of SEO requirements for video metadata.
• Some experience with video analytics from a platform such as Adobe or Google analytics.
• Experience producing video content for digital platforms for a news outlet.
• Able to work alone or as part of a team to compete assignments under tight deadline pressure.
• Experience with Adobe Premiere and the Adobe Creative Suite.
• Have a basic technical understanding of video systems and operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable with video rights management.
• Employment is contingent on passing a post-offer pre-employment background check and a motor vehicle record check & drug screen (for driving roles only).

We are eager to learn more about you and how you fit this role. When you apply, don’t limit your upload to a resume; show us what you’ve done. To do so, put together a single document file that includes the following, in this order:
1. Your resume – one to two pages.
2. A cover letter detailing your related experience and information explaining why you think you are the right person for the job. If you do not include a cover letter, you will not be considered.
3. Links to 5 online samples of digital storytelling. Show us what you’ve produced or had a hand in that best reflects what you can do in your desired role.
It is important that these items be assembled into a single document and uploaded in PDF format. Completing these steps will ensure that your application receives the highest consideration.

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• Job Description:

To oversee and manage the color workflow on assigned projects. Encourage and grow client relationships, along with supporting internal personnel collaboration. 

Main Duties

Artist

• Drive artist schedule and manage one to two Colorists session time.
• Face to face interaction with assigned Colorist regarding sessions, new specs, and clientele.
• Coordinate Colorist time off with the color production team.

Clients

• Act as the main point of contact for clients, via e-mail, phone, in-person meetings.
• Maintain effective communication with clients regarding deliverables and job status, including billing updates when workflow changes;
• E-mail prep guide, contact clients for specs and update all Work Order specs.

Bidding and Budget

• Gather all key information (boards, rough-cuts, source material, schedule, & delivery specifications, etc.) necessary to bid & manage project.
• Regularly communicate budget status to clients.
• Establishing a project workflow with the EP to fit the clients’ budget.

Preparations for Projects/Sessions

• Receive a PO for project and/or session prior to its commencement.
• Have credit card authorization filled out and submitted to accounting prior to session for any COD clients.
• Obtain all project details, source, delivery and shipping specs prior to the session.
• Ensure all specs fit within the clients booked time and will meet their delivery deadlines.
• Work with EP/ Ops to find alternative workflows to accommodate the clients’ delivery deadlines.
• Ensure clients are aware of how and where to deliver elements
• Make sure all necessary elements and prep are acquired prior to session allowing for adequate prep time.
• Verify project is built and setup prior to session start / client arrival. Arrive a half-hour before first sup’d session when needed, double checking complicated setups/laydowns, etc.
• Communicate weekend and holiday staffing needs to the production team.
• Coordinate and schedule meetings with internal team on complex projects.

Execution of Job

• Create Work Orders for all billable, non-billable, testing and pro bono work. No work is to be done without a Work Order, no exceptions. Generate work orders based on the approved work order template.
• Ensure that the production team is aware of any special set-up needs per project.[polycom, food orders…]
• Greet and escort clients to the bays upon arrival.
• Check in on artist, clients, color assists, and client services on a regular basis to make sure the session is well supported. The client should feel the producer’s presence and know that you are taking care of them.
• Organize, supervise and monitor the progress of a session to make sure it is on schedule.
• Make the production coordinator team aware of any known pick up shots coming their way
• Update WO and the production coordinator team with any spec changes.
• Communicate any machine downtime to production, operations, engineering, and clients and arrange for other solutions to keep the session on schedule.
• Keep track of all elements pertaining to the projects being produced.
• Supervise evening and weekend sessions (if required)

Final Delivery

• Coordinate the delivery of all required elements by the desired deadline date with the client/vault.
• Email (via vault or yourself) the client all proper tracking information including contents and expected delivery date/time to the requested location.
• Prepare & send all elements (credit lists, still frames, completed commercials), to our PR division for proper publicity.
• Follow up with client after session to ensure all elements were received timely and accurately.

Final Billing

• Work with accounting to make sure the billing is properly done in accordance to the client’s needs.
• Make sure all Work Orders are reviewed and actualized by yourself (with applicable accounting information: i.e. rates, billable hours, etc)

What You Bring

• A solid understanding and background in Post-Production workflow.
• Media Pulse and/ or post production scheduling software experience
• Basic knowledge of offline editing workflows including but not limited to the understanding of EDL, XML, and AAF.
• Knowledge of file based workflow
• Excellent working knowledge with MS Excel, and at least one working experience with a production shot/asset tracking system.
• Demonstrated superior written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills are needed. Proven planning and problem-solving abilities are required.
• The ability to effectively handle multiple projects and reporting to multiple project managers.
• Very strong ability identifying clear priorities and meeting department goals.
• The ability to work overtime when necessary.
• Strong client interaction skills with excellent customer service experience with internal and external clients.

• Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3:

Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self.

It is our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the company’s HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.
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