London Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

BBC – Open Kids Casting

Heather Baten Casting is casting across London, Essex and Kent for a new exciting BBC Feature Film.

Casting For:

Middle Eastern Girls 6 – 11 years old only. An extrovert & confident.

White Girls 6 – 11 years only. Playful and outgoing but also an observer.

No previous acting experience needed. 

Shooting: April – May 2022 in London.

Professionally paid. Must live in one of the UK counties above to apply.

Metro.co.uk, a division of Associated Newspapers Limited, is looking for freelance social producers to join the London team to help deliver news, features, sport, opinion and video to a fast-growing global audience. 

The ideal candidate will have experience working in a social media team and have an interest in politics, current affairs and showbiz, as well as an appreciation of the media landscape. 

This role requires experience and knowledge of every major social platform but most importantly demands enthusiasm and a positive can-do attitude. You should be passionate about online and have an engaging and witty writing style.

We are a creative, dynamic social team used to transforming our industry-leading on-site editorial into digestible multimedia content suitable for multiple audiences on multiple platforms. 

Key requirements:

• Ability to spot a story and having the confidence to relay that to the wider team
• Be the person who brings brilliant, original ideas to the table
• Build memorable off-site communities
• Help to build and evolve our unique voice across our social output
• Understand where journalism, social, community management and digital content is heading
• Experience of creating engaging social posts and managing social accounts
• Familiarity with crafting engaging Instagram and Facebook stories
• Interest in new platforms and formats
• Ability to source video and be keen to plan video projects
• An interest in analytics is preferred

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrable knowledge of social media, community management and of growing and engaging audiences
• Experience of work for a publication (please provide link in your cover letter/CV)
• A track record of community engagement and seeding to create loyal audiences  
• Understanding of the UK Editors’ Code of Practice, media and copyright law
• Willingness to work in a dynamic, fast-paced 24/7 news environment with flexibility to work unsociable hours as and when required

The above list is not exhaustive and constantly evolving, based on the needs of the business. Out of hours availability and a high level of adaptability is essential.

Please apply by sending an up-to-date CV, a note about yourself and why you’d be perfect for the team to [email protected]

Any applications received without a CV will not be considered.

Metro.co.uk

Influencer

• Assist with the day-to-day management of the influencer database, maintaining influencer relationships and ensuring consistent conversation
• Assist with management of influencer partnerships and activity, to ensure any paid content is delivered to deadline and budget
• Implement the global influencer strategy to increase brand awareness, social engagement, and website traffic
• Identify and cultivate new relationships to grow our influencer community across all social platforms
• Build long term relationships with key talent agencies influencers to encourage content exposure

Marketing

• Work with wider marketing team on creative influencer mailers based on cultural trends across multiple markets
• Stock and collateral management of all global influencer mailers
• Support with all events from conception to completion including all administration involved

Reporting

• Support with documenting all relevant influencer information
• Assist with creating the companywide department monthly reports
• Assist with reporting on key coverage metrics and influencer growth
• Reporting on all competitor activity to ensure we are stay on top of digital and social trends

Brand Agency London

Scopely are on the search for a Senior Producer to work within our Midcore division for a yet-to-be-announced midcore title. This is an exciting, new and unique role working with our co-development partner Pixel Toys. Collaborating with a unique single team approach, where the traditional boundaries between developer and publisher are eliminated.

Responsibilities

• Work in close conjunction as a counterpart with Sr. Producer at Scopely Headquarters
• Support the development, refinement and management of various production/development pods meeting the needs of those involved as well as key stakeholders, both within the core game team and outside the core game team
• Facilitate intra and inter team communication, ensuring timely dissemination of information as well as monitor scope and feedback creep
• Identifying risks and develop mitigation plans that keep our approved schedule
• Continuously look for ways to improve pipelines and processes that contribute to the larger product goals
• Partner closely with Studio Dir, Sr. Producer, Pixel Toys Feature Owners and Pixel Toys Producers to ensure the product is being scoped and managed properly
• Partner closely with Scopely EP and Sr. Producer to monitor milestone deliverables and track all production plans and schedule
• Be an overall team player with our co-dev partners and fill the gaps where necessary in production

Qualifications

• Demonstrated passion for building video games with at least 10 years of experience
• Expertise in project management techniques and tools
• Understanding of software development methodologies such as Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban and their appropriate usage
• Demonstrated leadership skills necessary to organise and inspire team members, despite not having formal people management responsibility
• Demonstrated time management skills allowing balanced focus on strategy, execution, risk assessment, and problem solving
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and conflict-resolution skills
• Ability to deal with changing priorities
• Optimistic attitude and outlook, committed to being a team player
• Experience working in a distributed development model, with remote teams, across many time zones and cultures
• Experience with production/development, whether producer, art manager or engineering

About Scopely:

Scopely is a leading mobile games company home to many top-grossing, award-winning franchises including Scrabble® GO, MARVEL Strike Force, Star Trek™ Fleet Command, Looney Tunes™ World of Mayhem, WWE Champions, The Walking Dead: Road To Survival™, YAHTZEE® With Buddies and Wheel of Fortune®: Free Play, among others. Scopely creates rewarding, immersive games that empower a directed-by-consumer experience. Founded in 2011, Scopely is fueled by a world-class team and a proprietary technology platform that personalizes gameplay at scale across one of the most diversified portfolios in the west. Recognized in Fast Company’s ‘World’s Most Innovative Companies’ and #2 on Deloitte’s ‘Technology Fast 500’ as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America, Scopely has achieved more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue by creating game experiences that are an important part of people’s lives. Scopely has global operations in Los Angeles, Barcelona, Boulder, Dublin (DIGIT game studio), London and Tokyo, with additional studios in seven countries across four continents. For more information, visit scopely.com.

Scopely is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, family or parental status, gender identity, veteran, or disability status, or other protected status.

Candidate information will be treated in accordance with our candidate privacy notice which can be found here: https://scopely.com/scopely-candidate-privacy-notice/

Scopely

MailOnline is seeking a video producer who can research, produce, and edit their own short-form videos for its social platforms. Candidates must me able to demonstrate previous work that proves their skill set. 

Requirements 

• High proficiency in Adobe Premiere
• Proficiency in After-Effects
• Strong background in video journalism
• Ability to identify, vet, and pitch compelling original and viral stories, local and global, that will be shared on MailOnline’s social accounts
• Experienced video editor capable of quick turn-arounds, with multiple projects on your plate at any given moment
• Effective communicator and team player who will collaborate with producers, journalists and editors to create compelling work
• Sharp writer who can write punchy intros for on-screen text
• Laser-focused, organised, and exemplifies meticulous attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Researching, planning, and developing stories
• Procuring third party assets to supplement stories
• Writing script, headline, and article for videos
• Editing, implementing motion graphic templates, coloring and mixing, and delivering per specifications.

Competitive salary and staff benefits including company pension scheme.

The above list is not exhaustive and constantly evolving, based on the needs of the business. Out of hours availability and a high level of adaptability are essential.

Please apply by sending an up-to-date CV, a note about yourself, and examples of your work to [email protected]

Any applications received without a CV will not be considered. 

MailOnline

Casting Call

People 25+ to tell us about a time they went rogue and did the unexpected.

• When was the last time you did something rebellious?
• Looking for fun, snappy stories

Content will go out as part of a drinks brand campaign across social platforms including Facebook & Insta

Filming in East London on 25th Feb

Paid Opportunity

Senior Creative Producer | Events Agency

London | £40k – £50k | NP800

This is a superb opportunity for an organised, creative and driven Senior Creative Producer to join this lovely boutique events agency, working with some prolific fashion and retail clients.

They see themselves as a new generation experience design studio, creating immersive and interactive brand interactions. They pride themselves on pushing the limits of design and leaving no stone unturned, and being mindful of sustainability at all times.

As a Senior Creative Producer you’ll have tabs on the project from start to finish, managing it through the creative concepts stage, ensuring the build and delivery is efficient, hitting the brief and organised, and managing the client relationship at the same time.

You’ll be a problem solver, a commercially savvy procurer, a methodical and logical deliverer and be full of creative ideas. Having experience managing event projects is crucial, as is being an excellent communicator and dynamic presenter.

Their list of benefits are excellent:

• Only being in the office when it’s incredibly important
• Core working hours between 10 and 5, work morning or evening – your choice
• Superb training and development plans
• 2 Duvet Days a year
• 25 days’ holiday, raising to 30 with long service
• Enhanced maternity pay
• One month sabbatical after 5 years, and £1000 bonus after 3 years’ service
• Mental health program

If you want to be a part of this cutting edge company, send over a CV demonstrating the skills required.

Stonor Recruitment

About Dishpatch

Dishpatch delivers the best restaurants to every home in the UK. We believe the best chefs deserve the biggest tables and that incredible food shouldn’t be confined to the lucky few that live in the city. Since we began in March 2020, we’ve partnered with the UK’s most pioneering restaurants and chefs – including Michel Roux Jr., Yotam Ottolenghi, Angela Hartnett at Cafe Murano, and Jose Pizarro – to deliver hundreds of thousands of meals across the country nationwide. Dishpatch makes it possible to experience incredible restaurant food in your own home.

Backed by the world’s leading consumer and brand venture investors, Dishpatch is growing fast and our sights are set on building a brand, product and collective that both restaurants and diners truly love. We’re continuing to rapidly increase the diverse range of restaurants and chefs we partner with to serve our growing community of diners.

The role

As a Junior Producer, you will be leading on our market-leading photoshoots from pre-production, all the way through to the shoot and delivery of assets ready for our website.

You’ll have 1-2 years of experience in creative production, with a little black book of creative contacts and a deep understanding of the food space across stylists, photographers and videographers. You’ll have deep knowledge of writing briefs, what you need to deliver a high calibre shoot and how assets will come to life across our channels to ensure that suppliers are delivering against our briefs.

Responsibilities

• Pre-plan and produce shoots for creative, product and marketing teams
• Source photographers, videographers and stylists
• Negotiate contracts with suppliers: photographers, stylists and videographers including costs, rights usage
• Support with managing our creative production team alongside acting Creative Director
• Form strong relationships across the business and establish close relationships with external creatives to build a little black book of contacts
• Source props, equipment and materials for shoots
• Manage, reconcile and forecast creative budgets; you’ll deliver the year’s work at or below the agreed budget
• Quality check images to ensure they align to shoot and brand guides and are delivered in a timely manner
• Develop your creative knowledge to keep shoots relevant and aspirational

About You

Requirements

• You love food and restaurants
• Your taste levels are high and you understand the food space
• You are positive and solution-focused; nothing is impossible
• On set you keep teams on track while building supportive relationships
• You manage up to senior leaders and keep key stakeholders informed
• You have a passion for great design and love food
• You’re customer-obsessed and not only think about production but also where our creative ends up in execution
• Self-starting do-er, comfortable moving quickly (we’re very fast!), proactive and super organised

About Us

• We’re an open book. We’re transparent with each other and the restaurants we work with: a genuine partner
• We’re intentional and big on action. When we do something, we do it with focus, and we do it quickly
• We’re real. We believe in being authentic, genuine and direct in our approach, communication and product

Benefits

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing startups in the UK and contribute to the future of at-home dining
• Competitive salary and compensation
• 33 days of holiday per year (inc. bank holidays)
• Employer contributions to your pension plan
• Meaningful ownership stake in the Dishpatch business.
• Trying out our favourite spots to eat with Friday team lunches
• Opportunity to try new menus and take home spare boxes each week
• Employee discount codes on all menus

If this sounds like something you can’t wait to get stuck into, we want to hear from you. Join us on our mission to democratise food globally, and bring the world’s best chefs to the kitchens of everyone.

On diversity

Every role in the Dishpatch team is open to applications from all sections of society. We’re committed to building a culture of inclusion, belonging and connection as we work together on building something truly great. We actively encourage applications from everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other difference that makes you, well, you.

Faqs

Where are you based?

Our office is next door to our central fulfilment premises in Poplar, London, right next to Canary Wharf.

What are your working hours?

Most of us work 9-6, but we adopt a flexible working culture & hours. It’s more important to us what you’re getting done, not when you’re doing it.
Dishpatch

My Client is a very famous global advertising Agency.

To fulfill this role you need to be a talented creative producer with a few years’ experience across integrated production, client services and creative development.

You have an unstoppable hunger for creative excellence and whilst you may be more passionate in some areas of making than others, you have a channel neutral approach to making stuff happen, and you have an unquenchable desire to be the best at what you do.

You will be creatively centric, driving delivery excellence across the agency and the brands you are associated with. You will ensure that the highest standards of creativity and craft are always upheld.

Role and Responsibilities You are bursting with passion and pride for delivering the best possible creative solutions, whilst balancing the practical constraints we are often challenged with.

You hold responsibility for production budgets.

You are a client facing, specialist producer.

You are the consistent and proactive link between all our partners and friends within the agency. You own the project.

You manage creative development and production.

You create time frames in which great work can be delivered, evolving throughout the life of a project.

You introduce 3rd party partners to improve the work when necessary.

You oversee campaign ideas and scope feasibility as they move into production.

You work with agency partners (creative resource, other department leads) to support the scoping of projects and structure appropriate resource and casting in a timely fashion.

You ensure everyone delivers on time and on budget. You will always champion and support the agency and our work. You will strive to increase efficiency, through smarter ways of working across the client portfolio wherever possible.

You will develop strong relationships with 3rd party production suppliers (e.g. Photographers, Digital production agencies, Music companies, versioning agencies etc).

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Working with key people to correctly cast the project.

• Leading the project team and defining what needs to be done and when.

• Briefing creatives and project teams on client communication and consistent ways of working. • Acting as a technical and creative partner to your project team.

• Estimating all aspects of project and creation of SOW.

• Defining project steps, tasks, requirements against SOW.

• Attending and fully participating in weekly resource meetings to ensure that your project team is protected and can achieve their goals.

• Creating and owning creative and production timelines and schedules.

• Managing of project budgets.

• Managing project procurement.

• Organising and leading creative reviews. • Track timeline and milestones.

• Managing client communications related to your project.

• End-to-end project management responsibility.

Red Sofa London

About Collectively:

Recently recognized on Fast Company’s 2018 Most Innovative Companies list, Collectively brings innovative marketers and the most creative social media influencers together to drive awareness, gain insights, and create authentic content that builds brands. We call it collaborative marketing.

This kind of influencer-centered marketing is growing exponentially around the world, and we’re pioneers in the space, with more than a decade of experience shaping our work. Since Collectively’s founding, we’ve partnered with 100+ consumer brands, and grown a community of more than 10,000 influencers across all social media platforms. Our work has been recognized by top publications including The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Digiday, AdAge, and Business INSIDER, among others. We also have Digiday, Effie, Webby, and OMMA awards for our programs.

To catch up on our latest Collaborations, please visit our website.

We have dog-friendly offices in San Francisco and New York City, and we’ve built a strong, supportive culture rooted in our values. We provide competitive benefits, including a company-wide flex day every Wednesday, allowing our team to work wherever they choose.

We’re excited to expand our team as we continue to sustainably grow Collectively in an ever-changing social media and digital advertising landscape.

About the Production Team:

Collectively’s Production team is the creative production arm of our client services practice, responsible for leading influencer marketing projects from kick off to completion with creativity, ingenuity, and exceptional project management skills. The team charter is flawless execution and we pride ourselves on guiding our clients, and influencers, through each step of a project with strategic solutions along the way.

Responsibilities:

Working in tandem with a Producer and larger cross-functional team, the Associate Producer contributes to program production across a variety of influencer marketing campaigns. This role reports directly to the Director of Production and is responsible for two crucial areas of production: project management and program tracking and reporting.

Project Management

• Support all aspects of Collectively projects, working closely with Collectively Producers and/or Directors to ensure exceptional program execution
• Prepare key production deliverables, including campaign briefs, activation plans, and production schedules
• Lead influencer research and recruitment for participation in client projects
• Proactively update project status documents, both internal and external, including: influencer lists, weekly status agendas, client hubs, and , payment schedules)
• Oversee the schedule, documentation and communication of collaborator payments for specific projects
• Prepare Collaborator agreements (contracts) and work with Business Affairs to ensure accurate and timely contracting
• Contribute to internal and client calls, including creating agendas, maintaining status sheets, note taking and scheduling follow up meetings.

Program Tracking and Reporting

• Set-up campaign tracking using our third-party software, ensuring information is thorough and accurate
• Review Collaborator content to ensure adherence to requirements set forth by Collectively and Collectively’s clients, working through revisions when necessary
• Collect and manage any image, text, or video assets
• Track and log all content (blog posts, social media updates)
• Identify potential issues (incomplete posts, failure to adhere to requirements, etc.) and proactively resolve as-needed

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Demonstrates exceptional organizational and project management skills across all phases of the project lifecycle
• Deliverables and assignments meet expectations and are produced on time Exhibits a proactive, collaborative approach to any project challenges or delays
• Quickly learns and retains information, especially regarding key project processes
• Demonstrates curiosity with a desire to learn from program data, collaborator content and Collectively teammates
• Projects a friendly, confident, and professional demeanor both within the organization and to clients and collaborators

Requirements

• This role is based in the United Kingdom.
• At least 1-2 years related experience in marketing/advertising industry, social media or similar (relevant internship experience considered)
• Strong organization skills with attention to detail and excellent follow-through
• Great communication skills—both internally and externally, written and verbal
• Ability to work efficiently across a variety of tasks and manage time appropriately for projects
• Adaptability and a desire to work in an industry and landscape that’s constantly evolving
• Collaborative working style with positive attitude and enthusiasm for making great work happen!
• BA or equivalent

Benefits

Paid Time Off, Holidays (including Birthday), Medical Benefits
Collectively Inc