London Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

£2,000 Soft Drink Commercial Casting Call

Searching for Generation Z people who are great looking hop and quirky.

We are looking for people aged 18-26 of all ethnicities for a leading carbonated soft drink brand commercial.

We are searching for a diverse, racially ambiguous group of people with interest features (Freckles, natural hair, great smille) and confident with a bit of attitude.

Shooting 12 and 13th of January in London.

The fee is: £2,000 per person.

HULU’s ‘Black Cake’ [ESTELLE] Speaking Role Casting Call

BLACK CAKE ~ OPEN CASTING CALL

We are currently seeking the older version of one of the lead roles in a new TV series for HULU:

[ESTELLE] Character is 60’s-90’s, Jamaican. A caretaker with a deep connection to her employer. Jamaican Accent.

Those interested in applying must have good availability across January 2023, and be currently based in the UK, Europe, or USA.

This role will be required to film for 1-2 days, in Wales, UK.

No acting experience required, and accent coaching will be available as needed.

Casting for a disabled singer for a well-known skincare brand aged 20-35 

Disabled women are often overlooked by the beauty and skin care industries. We want to cast a disabled actress or performer in the role, but we want her disability to be incidental. We want to focus on a vibrant and beautiful woman.

She’s full of confidence and loves any opportunity to ‘glam’ up. She’s bright, high energy, and has a wicked sense of humor.

Skin Care Commercial Casting Call for Disabled Actresses

Casting for a disabled singer for a well known skin care brand aged 20-35 
Disabled women are often overlooked by the beauty and skin care industries .

We want to cast a disabled actress or performer in the role but we want her disability to be incidental.

We want to focus on a vibrant and beautiful woman.

She’s full of confidence, and she’s loves any opportunity to ‘glam’ up. She’s bright, she’s high energy and has a wicked sense of humour.

Description

ABOUT MOONBUG ENTERTAINMENT:

Moonbug is a next generation entertainment company that has cemented itself in the children’s media space. Would you like to be part of the next frontier of inspiring and engaging stories to kids around the world?

Founded in 2018, with primary offices in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug creates, produces and publishes thousands of minutes of video and audio content every month with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy and resilience. We are a fast-paced global company, and have already grown to become the largest kids’ entertainment company on digital platforms in the world. Some of our existing titles include global sensations CoComelon, Blippi, Little Baby Bum, Morphle, Supa Strikas, ARPO and many more which are available in 32 languages and can be viewed on more than 100 platforms globally.

Moonbug is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. Candle is run by leading entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital from funds managed by Blackstone’s flagship private equity business.

This role will report full-time ON-SITE at our Camden Office.

The Role:

Moonbug is seeking an experienced YouTube Senior Channel Manager to run the day-to-day operations, management and analytical reporting for several of our properties to support wider business objectives to grow subscribers etc. You will be working with some of the biggest brands on YouTube. You will be based in our London office and work closely with the team in Los Angeles.

The successful candidate will be a creative thinker who can juggle multiple and diverse responsibilities, with a strong emphasis on organisation and meticulous attention to detail. This is a demanding and fast-paced role with growth potential that requires curiosity and significant initiative. The candidate will manage a small team of channel managers and will be the UK arm of the Video Labs team working closely with their counterparts in Los Angeles.

Moonbug’s Senior Channel Managers are expected to become experts in our managed content and perform competitive analysis to gain an understanding of how we can improve and grow our channels. Candidates will be expected to perform ongoing YouTube viewership analysis using multiple analytics tools in order to validate existing strategies and provide information to guide programming, marketing, and investment decisions going forward.

The candidate will manage relationships with a small set of external partners and internal stakeholders such as the production, creative and marketing teams. They will understand how their channels fit into the larger Moonbug network and develop effective cross-promotion strategies that ensure mutual benefit to all parties.

Responsibilities:

• Run the day-to-day operation across multiple YouTube channels
• Manage content schedules and track content production to ensure deadlines are met
• Upload content, ensuring channels adhere to YouTube best practices
• Create performance updates for the wider team and company
• Interrogate data to deliver actionable insights and strategies for growth
• Manage and develop a team of channel managers
• Participate in meetings with internal and external stakeholders to present channel activities and performance
• Create graphics for both channels and ads
• Edit and transcode videos
• Keeping up to date with YouTube platform developments, trends and training
• Optimize titles, descriptions and keywords to be SEO
• Write and edit metadata and copy for videos and channels
• Granular analysis and reporting of YouTube analytics and other data sources

Requirements

Qualifications and Desired Experience:

• Experience in YouTube channel management
• YouTube Certified with a deep and current knowledge of the YouTube platform.
• Knowledge of YouTube Content ID a major plus
• Experience working with animation / children’s content is preferred but not essential
• Proficiency using Photoshop
• Proficiency in video editing using Premiere and/or Final Cut
• Additional languages are a major asset but not essential

Moonbug Entertainment

Way To Blue are offering an opportunity to become a key member of the creative team, at one of the UK’s top entertainment specialists.

We are looking to recruit a talented, organised and proactive Digital Content Producer & Studio Manager to join our growing Creative Producing team based in our London HQ. This role is a unique opportunity to have an impact on WTB’s mission along with offering you the prospect to manage some of our most important creative initiatives within TV and Film Brands.

This position is full-time, and at times might require evening and weekend work depending on our clients’ needs, but we are flexible where possible. In addition, the teamwork both from home and our central London office in Fitzrovia.

Here’s how you’ll be contributing:

Your day-to-day tasks will include (but not limited to):

• Lead on managing the creative studio, managing the work in and out to ensure we are resourced correctly, and the production process runs through the studio in a timely manner.
• Working proactively to bring in new business and briefs for the creative team from existing clientele and supporting senior management on new client prospecting.
• Quality control and cross-checking creative output to ensure work is produced to the quality standards of the Way to Blue brand, exactly to client brief and delivered in a timely manner
• Management of Production Assistant.
• Support production assistant to proof and check production briefs, content outline and scripts.
• Work with Creative Director to lead on creative ideation in brainstorms and apply your knowledge of what works best on social to this process.
• Be the first port of call for production expertise with both client and account servicing teams, preparing quotations and workflows for individual projects
• Coordinate content shoots on and off location, working with the production assistant in preparing call sheets and schedules, briefing everyone involved and handling the day-to-day details prior to and during the shoot – including shoot attendance and on-site producing where required.
• Occasionally applying your art direction and styling skills to production, working closely with our team to push production boundaries, enhance our reputation and contribute to the development of long-lasting client relationships.
• Attend weekly progress meetings and briefings across campaigns. Interrogate proposed budgets, agree estimates, assign responsibility, and oversee project progress.
• Track and manage production budgets.
• Initiating and leading content production projects to tight deadlines and budgets.
• Work closely with the senior team to escalate issues in a timely manner and work collectively to provide solutions.
• Sourcing, quoting, briefing and managing external agencies or 3rd party producers or service providers
• Manage the creative development process and partnership with client servicing teams.
• Maintain a strong oversight, alongside the creative director, of production of platform-ready creative assets with in-house production studio, including images, motion graphics, and video elements.
• Ensure admin and paperwork for projects is completed in a timely manner including statements or work, supplier agreements and purchase orders.
• Liaison with clients and managing client communications across multiple projects to facilitate creative requirements across multiple clients.
• On occasion, out of office hours will be required to support events and to liaise with our offices in different territories. Time spent out of hours will be given back in lieu.

What Way To Blue will provide:

• You’ll have flexible working, with you working week split between the office and home
• You will be given a dedicated line manager who will be your guide and day to day contact
• You will be invited to exclusive industry events including preview screenings and launch events
• Organised social events from Christmas and summer parties to Fizzy Friday drinks
• Where necessary and if of interest, training in areas beyond social media such as Creative, Finance and HR will be provided

A bit about you, you’ll have…

•  An excellent understanding of the social media & digital content industry and platforms
• Strong organizational skills and ability to run multiple projects concurrently
• Willing team player, capable of cross functional collaboration. 
• Solution focussed, ready and willing to find solutions and answers to challenges and client problems
• Able to work at pace, independently and take the initiative.
• Flexible and adaptable, able to react quickly to changing requirements and new challenges.
• Creative and solution focused, problem solving and passionate about tv and film
• Upwards and downwards people management essential
• Line management experience is preferred but not required
• Experience using Trello is preferred but not required

A bit about us…

Established in 1996, we have transformed over the years from a digital PR communications business to a fully integrated communications offering across multiple markets. We are market leaders in our field and pride ourselves on being agile.

Our culture is what defines us. With specialist entertainment and consumer full-service marketing teams in each of our core offices, we pride ourselves on being globally collaborative, flexible and agile.

What’s it’s really like to work here?

We believe in empowering our people with the ability to improve themselves personally and professionally. Our values are important to us, and we make these central to everything we do whether it’s for our clients or for us.

We care deeply about building an inclusive, open and supportive work environment. We believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company.

We want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So, if you’ve got great experience, you’re passionate about learning new things and keen to join our mission, you’ll fit right in.

Way To Blue

Havas Studios

Havas Studios is an award-winning production studio with offices in London, New York, Chicago and Prague. We are a team of problem solvers and story tellers who create films spanning commercials, narrative and documentary. With people and planet at the forefront of everything we do, we want to make work that matters.

The Role

Senior Producer | Film

Reporting to the Head of Production.

The Opportunity

Our Senior Film Producer is joining our New York studio for a year so we need an energetic and experienced producer to fill this role in London, joining a tight-knit, weird and wonderful team. This is a fixed term contract for 6 – 12 months and although it will be primarily based in our London studio, there may be opportunities to work with our current Senior Producer in New York.

With a host of awards already under our belt in just two years, including The British Arrows, Creative Circle and Shiny Awards, we are building the next generation of production company. A place where fast-paced doesn’t dilute creative, and social shoots sit just as comfortably alongside full-scale commercials.

We live and breathe creativity and film craft, always striving to create work that is culturally aware and better than the last; the ideal candidate will share these values, putting talent, quality and inclusivity at the heart of everything they do.

Responsibilities

• Help guide the live action film output of Havas Studios, operating primarily as Producer but also EP when the workload calls for it, and being the first point of contact for live action briefs
• Manage film briefs from bid to final delivery, developing accompanying budgets, schedules and bid letters
• Deliver film production approaches that are appropriate for the budget and timeline, and always push the creative
• Mentor junior members of the team, helping to develop their knowledge, experience and expertise of live action productions
• Manage freelance producer resource with one eye on incoming jobs so that successful bids do not go into production without producers attached to them
• With oversight from the Head of Production, manage live action processes, updating document templates such as budgets and schedules when necessary
• Cultivate crew relationships and strive for productions to be represented as diversely as possible
• Ensure work is produced as sustainably as possible
• Cultivate a network of exciting independent directing talent and always strive to discover new talent, ensuring the best possible directors are offered to creatives and attached to productions
• Produce post-only jobs where necessary
• Maintain and develop positive relationships with agency heads and creatives so they are excited to use Havas Studios for their productions
• Assist the Head of Production with administrative, process, workflow and team related matters when necessary, and take on any duties of the Head of Production as required in their absence.
• Build strong relationships across the Havas network
• Represent Havas studios at industry events and award shows

Skills & Experience

• Experience with both large and small scale shoots, being able to adapt to social budgets and TVC budgets alike
• You will have a good network of freelance producers who you can call on when there are multiple live action productions taking place and the team needs to scale up accordingly
• Production company experience and the ability to manage productions from start to finish, including edit and post
• Intimate understanding of APA guidelines and practices, ensuring all productions follow these
• You will have an excellent network of shooting crew and directors, in and out of London
• Experience using the AdGreen carbon calculator and shooting sustainably
• Experience working in production within an agency network environment; where necessary you will have the ability to pull on what are typically agency producer skills i.e. direct to client liaison, knowledge of cast, usages, music and playout etc
• Knowledge of both offline and online post workflows
• Well versed in negotiation with, and management of, external production suppliers and freelancers
• You will be highly organised and familiar with financial processes such as billing, POs and timesheets
• Most importantly, you should have a great sense of humour, enjoy working as part of a lively and busy team, and make a cracking cup of tea.

Havas Studios

Content Specialist (Coordinator)

Mass media company

Hybrid working – 1/2 days PW onsite (West London)

6 Months initial Contract

This position is not overly creative and rather require high attention to detail and a lot of time spent on metadata and in systems and content processing workflows

Vendor management, broadcast, transmission, ingest, scheduling, coordination and operations in general would be suitables profiles of interest

General Summary:

The position will have total responsibility for the receipt and operational processing of source and publication ready materials and associated elements and metadata from a wide range of suppliers internally and externally. This role may also oversee the onward localisation of materials for DNE. They will ensure that the content is technically ready for publication or onward delivery, with any required localisation. Working alongside other departments for ingest and reversioning compliance to ensure each version of a programme adheres to the regional regulatory requirements in time for publication dates. The role involves ensuring multiple internal software tracking and material management systems are live with relevant data and suppliers are able to deliver files through the clients applications. This role requires daily global liaison with the Planning and Scheduling teams, internal and external delivery teams, Reversioning, Ingest and Media Management as well as Localisation vendors and transmission facilities. Communication must be maintained with all departments in order to manage materials through systems, departments and vendors. They are responsible for troubleshooting any material or workflow challenges.

Responsibilities:

● Working with PALM, Duplo, IBMS and Deal daily, and maintaining relevant systems.

● Maintaining live system records, keeping these accurate and up to date.

● Booking internal edits through Edit Gateway and ScheduAll systems

● Liaising with the Reversioning and Edit Teams.

● Ordering the required localisation and Access Services for select feeds, sending scripts and materials to suppliers.

● Effectively managing and coordinating the trafficking of materials to and from global localisation vendors ensuring they are delivered in time for publication.

● Effectively hitting all deadlines for delivery, dispatch and return of materials.

● Highlighting any legacy issues in advance

● Troubleshooting any late running files, daily communication with localisation suppliers for replacements and reference materials.

● Updating scheduling tools with metadata and relevant systems and documentation

● Tracking and validating vendor invoices.

● High level of both internal and external communication.

● Ad hoc tasks to co-ordinate stunts, launches and colleague cover.

Qualifications:

● Some experience of the broadcast industry

● Computer literate, intermediate excel skills, word, previous use of broadcasting systems IBMS and ScheduAll preferable.

● Excellent organisational/administrative skills.

● Attention to detail is essential.

● The ability to prioritise and effectively manage a large number of different projects, clients and vendors simultaneously and prioritising as necessary.

● Excellent people and interpersonal skills, good team player.

● Flexibility and ability to adapt to different demands.

● Initiative, proactivity and motivation.

● Ability to communicate effectively in an international environment

● Provide customer service to internal stakeholders.

Please apply to find out more information

Rethink

Marble are a cutting edge, industry leading marketing agency producing experiences for some of the most exciting brands and change makers in the UK and overseas.

We focus on bringing exciting and thought provoking concepts to life, support by integrated marketing solutions, aligned with our sustainable and environmental goals and values.

We are now looking for a Creative Producer with a strong background in design to join our Experiential Team.

The Role

The Creative Producer is responsible for designing and developing concepts for Marble projects. As part of the Experiential Team you will work alongside the Account Management and Delivery teams to create exciting and forward thinking experiences. 

You will be required to translate briefs into innovative and exciting concepts, working with suppliers and the internal team to develop ideas for a range of projects. You will devise ideas in line with client requirements incorporating cutting edge techniques, materials and concepts. 

As a Creative Producer you will develop concepts that align with client objectives and support business development and account management teams to ensure that enquiries are converted. 

CREATIVE

• Translate client briefs into innovative creative concepts that push boundaries 
• Develop concepts that apply to multi art forms, venues, large scale productions and other multi discipline events
• Work alongside the technical team to ensure concepts are achievable
• Conceptualise and produce scenic visualisations in 3D (CAD and/or Sketchup) as well as working with external freelancers when necessary to produce visualisations
• Providing costing support, working with external suppliers to obtain the best possible prices
• When required, support the Account Management team to present creative concepts to clients, including context for ideas and how it integrated with their brief and objectives
• Develop a network of suppliers and contacts that work with the latest materials, techniques and technology to ensure that we are continuously producing original concepts
• Continuous and consistent research to ensure that you are up to date with new and emerging trends that can be used to develop new concepts

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

• Work with Delivery Team to set out project timelines and parameters for clients and delivery teams
• Manage expectations and communicate effectively with clients and Marble team members to ensure that suppliers have the required resources and information to deliver the project
• Work with the Delivery Team to deliver project, including on site delivery
• Work with Delivery Team to ensure all project related paperwork (design, technical drawings, production packs) is complete and up to date
• Be on site for live projects to ensure concept is delivered against objectives
• Report on project progress against project timelines and deliverables
• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with Marble standard practices and continuously look to improve processes where relevant

CLIENT MANAGEMENT

• Develop strong relationships with clients, growing their account through imaginative concepts and continuously meeting their objectives
• Consistently look to add value to client projects and grow their accounts
• Ensure that expectations are set and adhered to during the relationship with the client
• Ensure that the CRM system is up to date with client details and build their profile to develop a broader view of the client and their objectives
• Consistently communicate with the client, getting to know their team and ensuring Marble are their preferred supplier

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 3 years in similar role
• Experience of using SketchUp (or other CAD programs) to produce creative concepts is essential
• Previous experience of working in an integrated agency is advantageous
• Previous experience in using design program i.e. photoshop / indesign / illustrator is preferred
• Experience in managing on site live experiences
• Previous experience managing suppliers in relation to set builds
• Operationally focused and solution based thought processing
• Ability to manage complex workloads 
• Strong relationship building skills
• Confident dealing with clients and stakeholders at senior level

Benefits & Culture

Marble believe that people should love what they do and want to come to work. We work hard to build a culture where not only everyone can bring their true self to work but also get the opportunity to grow and develop their career with us.

We offer a range of benefits on top of a competitive salary:

• Flexible working environment
• Hybrid working (3 office days & 2 WFH)
• Pitch to play for concert/outing tickets
• Bike2WorkScheme
• 27 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and extra day for each year
• Personal training budget
• Daily allowance for lunch for office days
• Monthly allowance towards physical wellbeing
• Private members club membership

Recruitment Process

Role to start in asap in JANUARY 2023

HYBRID role (Monday & Friday from home)

Process:

1. Initial call with HR Manager
2. Video call with Production team
3. Optional video call with Senior Management team

APPLICATION DEADLINE 8th JANUARY 2023

Marble LDN

People with Personal Stories

Looking for real people with personal stories to share.

We are searching for people aged 17-80 of all ethnicities, to take part in an editorial short film.

We are looking for real people with personal stories to tell and ideas to share as well as being representative of the wonderfully diverse community that we are lucky to be part of in London.

Must be confident in front of the camera and available 12th of January 2023.

The fee is £100 for half a day.