Music Video Casting Calls and Auditions

Job Description:

Straight To Tell is hiring a creative producer with a passion and an expertise for project management, creative production, storytelling and the public good to manage our team of creatives. The Creative Producer will work closely with the Studio Director, Director of Creative Operations, and Creative Director to support film/video projects, animation, and general production.

Role Overview:

Manage pre-production, production, and post-production; developing production budgets and schedules, project managing client work for the creative team, facilitating client’s creative vision and needs, working closely with exec producers and other key stakeholders, as well as in-house editors and management to ensure all assets go out on time and are up to studio standards. In addition, sourcing and hiring crew members for productions and analyzing, maintaining, and improving project management processes, systems, and reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Manage projects, timelines, budgets, and staff for creative client work.
• Oversee post-production, coordinating, budgets, hirings, music clearance, submissions to film festivals, etc.
• Manage all film/video and animation project communications (with clients and partners), document meeting notes and ensure the team is briefed and the project is on-track.
• Manage external communications including preparing contracts, sending agreements, tracking status and collecting releases, sending and tracking invoices for applicable projects etc.
• Execute logistics – T&C waivers, music clearances, budgets, talent contracts, coordinating with guests, etc.
• Produce in-studio special projects. That may include overseeing video, animation, and design projects, podcasts, or events.
• Work closely with the Outreach Coordinator to oversee story recruiting efforts for testimonial-based campaigns. This includes confirming appearance releases, confirming campaign messaging goals are being followed, and track interview counts.
• Hire recruiters, animation personnel, talent, and video crew.
• Support Studio Director and Director of Operations in staff management and development, as well as lead reporting for creative production where appropriate.
• Manage studio gear rental and tracking, as well as merch fulfillment when necessary.

Straight To Tell

Miami Major Male Hip Hop Artist x Major Jamaican Artist
Music Video

Looking for: 

2 Jamaican Guy

• Male
• African American
• Ages: 20-50 years old

Rate: $250 for 6 hours

2 Professional Dancers

• Female
• African American
• Ages: 21 to 35 years old

Rate: $250 for 6 hours

2 Female Leads

• Female
• African American
• Ages: 21 to 35 years old

Rate: $250 for 6 hours

Shoot date: Wednesday, July 27th. 

Casting Call For a Major YouTube Channel

Looking for 6 female boxers who actually have experience boxing for a YouTube Video.

Date: Thursday July 28th

Call time: TBA (6-8 hours)

All ethnicities
Age range: 18-35 years old

Location: Atlanta, GA

Rate: $300

Must not be sick or have a fever. 

Hip Hop Legend Music Video in Miami

Casting: All Jamaican or Jamaican passing Cast Members

• 2 Female Leads
• 2 Female Dancers – Must have dance clips
• 3 Buff Guys

Shoot Hours: 6-8 hours

Pay Rate: $$

Washington Examiner is looking for a Video Producer to join its growing video team. The ideal team member will work to create visually engaging stories for our viewers, working closely with the newsroom on producing content.

We are looking for a motivated self-starter, creative thinker, and clear communicator with experience in a fast-paced, demanding news environment. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a team and help shape the way we approach video.

This position is based in our Washington, D.C. office and must be comfortable working flexible hours in order to capture a story as it unfolds, including potentially some weekends and evenings.

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:

– BA/ BS in communications, film, television, digital media production, journalism, or related area.

– 2+ years of professional experience with a demonstrated excellence in video storytelling and production

– Passion for journalism

• Experience with Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and color correction

– Experience with ENG, DSLR, and Cinema Cameras

– Adhere to production schedules and edit deadlines

– Collaborating with production teammates (videographers, producers, animators, and graphic designers) to incorporate multimedia elements into video products.

– Ability to execute during breaking news events

– Familiarity and interest in US politics

– A passion for creative, visual storytelling

– Strong communication skills

Send resume, salary expectations, and portfolio to: [email protected]

Washington Examiner

Deloitte

About The Job

Do you know film production from the ground up, from creative development through post-production? Can you multi-task and keep multi-threaded slacks, emails, and text chains tamed and in-check while you’re bidding on a new commercial? Can you bring new ideas to the table for how to optimize production workflows? Can you decode what the heck a director has inside their head and get it on screen? Then we want to talk to you. 

We are adding a staff producer to the Ghost Robot team. Someone who understands that every project’s budget and every production’s challenges will be different. Someone who knows in their heart that there are solutions for every one of those challenges and we can find them, implement them, and support our teams and our clients simultaneously. 

Ghost Robot is the creative studio of the future. Over the past 15 years, Ghost Robot has established itself as an industry leader in creative production with a body of work that is instantly recognizable and admired by both creators and clients.

We bring together the best of commercials, entertainment, immersive media, and telepathy to create world-class content that blurs the line between advertising and originality.

At the core of Ghost Robot’s success is a nimble production and post-production infrastructure that can support projects of any kind, regardless of the scope or medium. The close-knit team is run more like a family, built upon an ethos of personal expression, collaboration, and exploration that allows us to generate artistic solutions to nearly any creative problem.

As a producer, you are a key player in bringing all our projects to life and giving our clients a reason to come back and do it again.

If you think you have what it takes to join the Ghost Robot family and you’re ready to produce awesome work, let’s talk.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Ghost Robot is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or age.

Responsibilities

• Scope projects, schedules, and build budgets/bids from client briefs and director treatments. Communicate potential solutions and approaches that unify the directors’ vision with the clients’ priorities. 
• Lead live-action film, video, and mixed media productions from development through delivery, and often, re-delivery. 
• Understand what makes a pitch effective and how to position the Ghost Robot team to win projects. 
• Identify milestones and manage director, agency, and client expectations throughout the project lifecycle to ensure clarity and success well before delivery. 
• Negotiate competitive rates with vendors and partners to keep projects on or under budget and within schedule constraints. 
• Book, coordinate, and motivate teams between 4 and 40+ collaborators, in different timezones, to meet accelerated deadlines, while also maintaining everyone’s sanity and positivity. 
• Maintain Ghost Robot’s reputation for being nice humans and generally good to work with. 
• Contribute to our growing and diverse network and database of artists, makers, freelancers, and technicians to ensure we have the best and most relevant teams to maintain an elevated quality of work. 
• Tie up projects with a neat bow so that another person could pick it up quickly and clearly. Wrap financials and manage extensive numbers of deliverables with ease. 
• Keep up with industry trends, technology developments, and emerging content models and concepts. 
• Adapt to a constantly changing global pandemic and the new production workflows, so we can maintain creative output in the Covid-19 era while keeping crews safe and contained. 

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of experience as a creative producer, post producer or line producer in a live-action production environment or full-service post-production company, with an understanding of various post workflows (editorial, animation, CG, finishing). 
• You must have bidding experience. 
• Must have super-hero strength organizational and spreadsheet skills.
• Highly motivated, self-starter who owns the work and is accountable to clients and team members alike.
• Able to keep a flexible & adaptive mindset –  maintain a level head in challenging situations and mediate solutions and solve problems. 
• Exemplary written and verbal communication skills. Understands the distinction between when a conversation is best had over the phone or by email, and how to do so efficiently. Asks all the right questions to avoid potential bottlenecks, and has a light touch in difficult conversations. 
• Develops strong working relationships and personal connections inside and outside of Ghost Robot – whether clients, freelancers, vendors or collaborators – of all imaginable personality types. 
• Media Services Showbiz Budgeting, Airtable, Adobe Creative Suite, G-Suite knowledge a plus. 
• Strong understanding of production accounting workflows, purchase orders, invoicing, and talent contract negotiations.

Ghost Robot

Nuvolum is a unique, rapidly growing, innovative, full-service, integrated marketing firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our company is a fast-paced, work-hard, big-rewards environment. We offer competitive salaries and health benefits, a supportive work environment, and an opportunity for growth.

We are looking for a full-time in-field producer to assist and manage marketing video shoots. The ideal candidate for this position is extremely organized, and loves collaborating on creative projects and working with others. While on set, a positive, can-do attitude must continuously be upheld.

This is a marketing company. This position will need to communicate often with other departments in a corporate environment, assist and produce interviews, direct scenes, produce studio shoots, and travel constantly in small teams. This position is not like many other producing jobs. It involves much physical activity and quite a lot of corporate office duties.

The ideal applicant is able to travel 3-5 times a month for 3-6 days at a time, has an enthusiastic, professional personality, and possesses the ability to work effectively as a team with an in-field cinematographer.

A successful candidate

• 3-5 years of video production experience
• Is able and willing to travel often
• Must have common sense and be a self-starter
• Quickly and efficiently problem solves well under pressure and in stressful situations
• Must be a people person
• Enjoys collaborating with others
• Very strong work ethic and ability to constantly multi-task
• Is able to direct and manage executive-level clients, as well as inexperienced volunteers
• Effectively communicates both verbally and in written correspondence
• Is highly organized and tidy
• Can lift 60 lbs.
• Takes and gives direction well
• Possesses an acute eye for detail (clothing, set, etc.)
• Is a creative thinker and can stage unique sets
• Has strong calendar management skills
• Strong understanding of lighting techniques
• Strong understanding of film and lighting equipment
• Proficient in Cinema and DSLR cameras
• Has strong writing skills
• Can work within a budget

Experience wanted but not required:

• Video post-production and editing using Adobe Premiere Pro
• Photo editing using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop
• Marketing experience
• Photography experience
• Experience working in small teams
• Experience working with healthcare clients
• Experience with task management software

Benefits

• Health Insurance, 401(K), frequent flier miles/points after the probationary period, vacation and sick time accrual after 6 months.

If you feel that you would be a great team member, please send a résumé, reel, and cover letter describing why you feel you are the right fit, as well as salary requirements. We’d love to meet you.

Nuvolum

Lead Video Producer

We’re seeking a Video Producer to join our team and help us create the most compelling custom video campaigns in the upper Midwest. Bennett Media Group is looking for a talented, creative leader with an appetite for life and a passion to be different. This individual will be equal parts producer, videographer and creative writer, with a bit of post-production as well. We want a candidate who will efficiently collaborate closely with teammates on all levels within our agency. They will be a turnkey addition to our growing team and must be willing to jump in the deep end, creating on day one. In addition to the standard creative responsibilities, we’re looking for someone with the ability to dream big and execute on strict budgets and timelines. Someone who truly desires to grow with our thriving company and be a part of a close-knit team of hard working individuals who are passionate about providing nothing but the best for our clients.

Responsibilities: 

·     Lead all aspects of creative development, contributing to ideation, scripting, pre-production, video shooting, video editing, and production equipment budgets/needs.

·     Participate in brainstorms to develop video ideas that promote the objectives and brands of our clients.

·     Ideate and develop videos designed for consumption across all available platforms, including internal, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TV, Pre-Roll and more.

·     Amend, revise and/or redevelop concepts based on internal and client feedback. 

·     Collaborate effectively and efficiently within team setting as well as directly with clients.

·     Adhere to production timelines from Account Managers and strict traffic deadlines with our vendors.

·     Stay abreast of emerging trends in entertainment, video production and all production equipment.

Requirements: 

·     Experience working in a creative/production role, with a diverse portfolio featuring social content, digital campaign examples and long form video.

·     Exceptional skill in lighting set up and filming in all environments including interviews, outdoors and in studio.

·     Exceptional ability in motion graphics and title animation.

·     Expertise in full-scale production process; including creating scripts, directing shoots and leading others in the process is crucial.

·     Must be a leader (and a team player) with strong communications skills, an eye for detail and a knack for problem solving.

·     Vast Knowledge with the latest camera technology and necessary software is required.

·     A passion for every aspect of the video process as well as a drive to push creativity boundaries while exceeding the expectations of our clients is a must.

·     Experience with adobe suite such as, after effects, premiere pro, photoshop. Knowledge of DaVinci Resolve is a plus. Experience with Canon cameras preferred but not necessary.

Ideal Candidate Traits:

·     Ability to accept constructive criticism and critique from team members and clients

·     Possess a positive attitude within team atmosphere as well as in front of clients

·     Self-motivated who is continually learning and growing knowledge of all facets of video production.

·     Strong desire to lead a team of creative professionals from different concentrations.

About BMG:

As our areas premiere full-service agency, we strive to raise the bar in all we do, especially with our creative. Growing our footprint throughout the Midwest and the nation is in our sights and we will stop at nothing to get there! As a rapidly growing company, we are hungry and ready for larger measures of success!

With continual growth year over year, BMG is poised to make a huge leap this year by solidifying the final piece to our foundation with this position. We are a laid back, positive thinking group that loves to create successful, head-turning campaigns for our clients. We set the expectations high and always aim to exceed them. If you feel you have the experience, creative mind and passion to develop and grow within our company, we urge you to send us your reel and resume today!

Bennett Media Group