London Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Asian Models Casting Call

Asian models over 170cm and uk sizes 6-8 wanted for a swimwear e-comm shoot next week.

Paid role. 

Influencers / Content Creators Casting Call

We are currently searching fore European, urban influencers, between the ages of 25-35 with a specialised skill/talent that is unique and off the charts. We are specifically looking for influencers that revolves their social media around this skill.

If this sounds like you, and you fit the criteria, please get in touch.

• An established following (100K+) across instagram and TikTok
• Betweek the ages of 25-35 years olf
• From European Country, but ideally DE, DL, ES, FR, IT.

This is a well paid opportunity.

Commercial Casting Actor Couples

URGENT!

We’re looking for actor couples aged approx 25-35 to feature in an ad.

This is casting tomorrow 1st September in central London.

Paid roles. 

Mobile Network Commercial Casting Friends or Families of East Asian Heritage

We’re casting an exciting new commercial for a mobile network and would love to see couples, friends and families.

Looking for Friends or Families of East Asian Heritage

• All Ages
• UK Based

Shoots: 4th/5th/6th and 7th of October

Paid Job

Mobile Network Commercial Casting Families

We’re casting an exciting new commercial for a mobile network and would love to see couples, friends and families.

Looking for Families

• Any age
• All ethnicities
• Based in UK

Shoots: 4th/5th/6th and 7th of October

Paid Job

Mobile Network Commercial Casting Friends or Families of West Indian Heritage

We’re casting an exciting new commercial for a mobile network and would love to see couples, friends and families.

Looking for Friends or Families of West Indian Heritage

• All Ages
• UK Based

Shoots: 4th/5th/6th and 7th of October

Paid Job

Mobile Network Commercial Casting Couples

We’re casting an exciting new commercial for a mobile network and would love to see couples, friends and families.

Looking for Couples

• All ethnicities
• All ages
  UK Based

Shoots: 4th/5th/6th and 7th of October

Paid Job

Description

About the Team

The Lifestyle & Entertainments (L&E) Advertising Sales Team is primarily responsible for the monitisation of eight weekly print magazine brands and three websites. Many of these brands are iconic household names such as TV Times and Woman’s Weekly and have enormous reach across the UK. We sell approximately 1.350m copies of these magazines per week and our digital brands have over 5m unique users per month in the UK alone.

The L&E brands provide a route to market for our clients to reach this substantial audience who we have dubbed “Heart of Britain”. These are the quietly powerful C1C2DE Women of the UK – all 14 million of them. Why is this important to our advertisers; They engage with our brands to give them trusted advice and have a total income and value to the economy of £350 billion. This is the primary USP of the L&E vertical.

The L&E vertical contributes a substantial revenue stream to Future Plc’s overall commercial advertising income with considerable scope for developing additional revenue via display, social and creative solutions

This will be a remote role but the successful candidate will need to be able to cover a patch primarily based around Manchester

Job Purpose

As an Account Manager, you will be responsible for maximising commercial opportunities and generating advertising revenue from clients across our Lifestyle and Entertainments Vertical. You will be selling print, digital and creative solutions.

Your role will be a mixture of speaking to your clients on the phone, going to see them face to face, and regularly communicating with them via email. You will talk confidently about the vertical market you work in and be able to confidently pitch for business and hold a negotiation both over the phone and face to face.

By working with editorial, marketing, and other areas of the business, you will create bespoke ideas, and then pitch and sell these to your client base to generate increased revenues, to take revenue from our competitors or to gain new revenues from other budgets e.g PR. Increasing market share in print is important to our current strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• To achieve your monthly revenue target
• Develop and maintain excellent customer relationships
• Developing new business by identifying lapsed or new clients
• To manage and develop existing clients.
• To work towards generating YOY revenue growth
• Responsibility for ensuring delivery of role objectives and rev targets.
• Yield Management. Ensure you are driving the best possible yields from your clients and maximising where possible, best market share position, forward booking series, upselling and gaining long term business

Requirements

What do I need to succeed?

• You will be required to have a strong work ethic at all times and a willingness to learn and to embrace and demonstrate our values. As a sales person it is important to have a ‘let’s do this’ attitude and to row the boat
• You will need to be tenacious, commercially minded and revenue driven with strong communication skills, both internally and externally.
• Display an ability to think creatively when structuring mutually beneficial trading deals with our agencies and clients
• Existing media agency relationships are important plus the ability to grow your own network within the London media market.
• An understanding of the current media landscape and where Future sits and the opportunities that brings to our clients
• A willingness to learn in terms of brands, skills and media channels

Benefits

As well as our standard benefits, we have a number of awesome perks available to our staff including:

• Unlimited Holiday – You read that right! We trust you to manage your workload and time
• A share in our success- every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year
• Huge opportunities to learn and develop whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues

Our Future, Our Responsibility – Inclusion and Diversity at Future

We have a voice and we’re going to use it. We promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do. We’re an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process is free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respecting of all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values and employees – current and future – are treated with respect and fairness. Find out more about Our Future, Our Responsibility on our website.

Future

Company Description

The Mill is a global creative partner for agencies, production companies and brands, working across all media channels and platforms.

We are trusted specialists in visual effects, creative technologies and content production Our projects include the creation of digital products and virtual experiences, as well as world class visual effects and video production.

We are a vibrant network of talented artists, producers, directors and creative technologists from multinational backgrounds. We nurture innovation, flexibility and diverse ideas across our studios in London, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Berlin and Bangalore. We are all united by one single ambition: To create extraordinary and memorable work that captivates and excites audiences.

We are The Mill. We create the extraordinary.

The Mill’s flagship studio, Mill London, opened its doors in 1990. Located in London’s Fitzrovia, the studio is home to over 300 creators working across Mill VFX, Mill Direction and Mill Experience projects. The Mill’s London home overlooks the iconic BT tower, and is surrounded by some of the best eateries in town. The London creative community often gathers on The Mill’s rooftop bar and terrace, which plays host to a number of industry and staff events.

Job Description

The role of Art Director (AD) at The Mill is one of creative innovation and ingenuity, leadership, and team building, responsible for working cohesively with a team of Designers, Illustrators and Animators to create the unique vision developed for our clients. A Mill AD has an extensive knowledge of the Design/VFX & commercial advertising industry and can relate it to our clients’ specific projects in the most unique artistic way.

An AD at The Mill will work closely with the CD for Design and the Design team on projects that require origination and creative development and thinking. The AD must be highly visually creative and in addition to an acute sense for visual aesthetics, have an in-depth knowledge of the technology used in aspects of Design. They will design for the projects of internal and external directors. They must also have an excellent awareness of client requirements and the ability to coordinate projects, communicate creative ideas and guide clients through a creative process.

Our AD’s must constantly research, develop and adapt new and current technology, creative ideas and techniques so that they remain at the forefront of our industry and develop a reputation for attracting and producing work that is innovative and highly original. They will be responsible for improving and refining creative output to build a culture of design around a vision set by the CD, HOD & EP. They are expected to manage projects from collaborative conceptualization through to final design and deliver the vision and creative process. A Mill AD is confident that they can join a company that is among the most award-winning in its field and have the ability to guide it to the next level.

Responsibilities

• Art Direct projects for both internal and external clients, managing each project from conceptualisation through to final product.
• Generate inspirational, conceptual and creative ideas through and within the Design team.
• Mentor a productive and award winning creative team, constantly improving and refining creative output.
• Manage creative projects including the conceptualisation and origination of design briefs and execution of the work across all disciplines.
• Ensure final creative is consistent with client strategy and brand guidelines.
• Work with creative leads and production teams to win work from prospective clients.
• Work with the HOD, CD and Design Directors to provide & develop design solutions.
• Lead the art direction of visual content for Design, 2D and 3D projects.
• Manage artists on both production and creative, ensuring highly creative output and quality control from conception through to delivery to meet creative, budget and deadline expectations.
• Advise and work with the creative teams in developing ideas, strategy and pitch collateral for all Design projects.
• Present concepts and design ideas to clients and make recommendations where appropriate.
• Attend local awards and client events to build relations and create new leads for potential projects and business.
• Work closely with CD, Design Directors and Designers to research, develop and implement new technology and creative ideas.
• Guide, teach and mentor Artists in the Design department in developing ideas further.
• Brief other members of the creative team and lead successful creative sessions for projects.
• Create, design and animate where necessary, in collaboration with others.
• Weekly meetings with CD and Producer.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years of Art Direction.
• Ability to work with directors, producers and designers.
• Ability to lead projects from concept to completion.
• Clear presentations skills to inspire the creative team and to present company goals and creative vision.
• Ability to translate concepts into creative design.
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently internally and externally.
• In-depth knowledge of motion graphics, 2D & 3D design and experience of design tools.
• Ability to supervise and train employees, to include organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling projects.

Additional Information

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If you require assistance applying or would like to find out more about our recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and we’ll be happy to assist.

At The Mill, we want to work with the best people and we want them to have a great career with us. We will make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process and beyond to help people shine and enable them to show us their skills and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace that reflects the needs of a diverse workforce. We will offer flexible working practices and make relevant workplace adjustments for employees who need them to be at their best. The Mill

Gallery Manager

Taunton

£27k with uncapped commission!

We’re looking for a motivated manager to join this well established and hugely successful gallery in Taunton. Selling a range of high-end artwork from well-known and up and coming artists. Your Industry background is less important as someone with excellent sales ability, top-quality people skills and management experience would suit this role. Thorough Training will be given so knowledge in this field isn’t a requirement.

Some duties of the role will include:

• Maintaining relationships with the existing loyal customer base and establish new business.
• Manage the day to day running of the premises which including managing the rotas and maintaining high visual standards.
• Engage with customers entering the premises with a consultative approach that’s informative but not pushy.
• Using the database to inform customers of new arrivals or establish requirements for a new purchase.
• Develop and mentor the small team of consultants.
• Supporting with exclusive events.
• Occasional visits to client’s homes or workspaces to establish their needs.

The ideal candidate would be:

• A hard-working and tenacious professional who has a natural sales ability.
• Someone who is comfortable selling over the phone as well as face to face.
• A good communicator with leadership experience.
• Someone who has worked with high value items or with a premium product ideally, but a good attitude and people skills are more important.

In return there’s a good base salary with the opportunity to earn uncapped commission which is incredibly achievable and has the potential to be very lucrative. For the right person with the right attitude there are plenty of opportunities for progression within the business. You’ll be working five days out of seven, which will include Saturdays and the occasional Sunday.

To find out more about this role contact Helen

Sarah West Recruitment Ltd