Music Video Casting Calls and Auditions

Position: Associate Producer

Company: DeSales Media Group (News Content Group)

Reports to: Executive Producer

Overview:

Currents News is looking for an experienced, ambitious, and creative journalist who can jump into a fast-paced newsroom environment to assist in the production of a Catholic–based TV news program. If you are looking for a fantastic opportunity where you will be able to contribute your experience and grow into a producer role, this is it. The associate producer wears multiple hats and plays a vital role in the day-to-day production of the newscast. You will work closely with the EP, reporters, and production staff. You will contribute by pitching stories, writing scripts, editing video, help with breaking news, learn how to line produce, write in-house packages, assist with the running of the assignment desk, and contribute to other brands within the news department.

Responsibilities:

• Write vos and in-house packages
• Pitch and develop stories
• Produce interview segments with supportive material such as video, sound bites, and ordering graphics
• Edit short vides for vos, vo/sots, and interview segments
• Learn how to line produce under the direction of the EP, and then fill-in for them when they are absent
• Work closely with the assignment desk to communicate story and information needs
• Fill in and assist on the assignment desk, as required
• Train new writers and interns
• Assist with field requests from reporters on obtaining file video and/or creating graphics
• Print scripts and distribute rundown before the program is recorded.

Background, Skills, Requirements:

• Degree in journalism, broadcast news, or equivalent
• 1-2 years of experience in a newsroom
• Exceptional news judgment and knowledge of how to avoid copyright infringement
• Ability to edit on Adobe Premiere or equivalent
• Excellent writing, communication, and organizational skills
• Ability to learn quickly and work independently
• Experience working on digital platforms with ability share content on social media
• Strong and proven ability to multi-task and to work under deadlines
• Willing to work late hours and weekends, as needed
• Basic knowledge of Catholic Church, teachings, and traditions is a plus

About DeSales Media Group:

DeSales Media Group is the non-profit communications and technology arm of the Diocese of Brooklyn. Services include media relations and strategy, marketing and social media, ad sales, educational support, video production, large events, and news content. DeSales Media Group operates NET-TV, a cable television channel that reaches more than two million people in the New York area. Its news group produces a nightly television program, two award-winning newspapers (The Tablet and Nuestra Voz), and is growing its digital department, which produces original news and informational content. We don’t just cover our own backyard. We go where the news is happening. Recently, our reporters traveled to Puerto Rico, Texas, Colombia, Rome, and Hong Kong, Panama, and Ireland. The news department is the only outlet in the country to offer extensive live coverage of papal trips and recently completed live coverage of World Youth Day in Panama, and more than 40 hours of live in-depth reporting World Meeting of Families. DeSales Media is growing. We will soon be moving into a new building, which includes a state-of-the-art newsroom and studio. DeSales is looking for creative and experienced professionals who are motivated to make a difference. The company offers competitive salaries, and many benefits including comprehensive medical and dental benefits, paid time off, 403b with a company contribution.

DeSales Media Group

OK COOL is a (very) creative studio for social media.

We humanize brands. We connect them to culture. We help them think, act and behave like the people they need to connect with. Our clients are cultural powerhouses like Nike, Disney, Spotify, Converse, Mr Porter, Bumble, Tag Heuer, Gucci and COS to name a few.

If, like us, you’re obsessed with digital culture and you spend a massive portion of your day online, here is your chance to get paid for it.

OK COOL’s headquarters are in London but we are rapidly expanding in the US. We need a social creative lead to join our team and build our creative department and roadmap to help continue driving agency growth. We’re looking for a social first ideas person who can lead all creative work and conceptualize clever, innovative concepts across all social media channels. Our dream person is someone who can come up with ideas for TikTok, Reels, Feed and all other social media platforms and formats.

You live and breathe social creativity, presenting work to clients, have acute attention to detail, and are passionate about innovation in communication. This is a fast-paced work environment, so attentiveness and the ability to handle multiple projects with ease are a must. You’re able to stay humble while showing off your creative thinking, and will help us maintain an environment that encourages expression, inclusivity and collaboration.

You’d be in charge of:

● Lead the overall social creative vision and development process on major client accounts.

● Conceptualise short-form video content and come up with clever ideas for social media posts, mainly for TikTok, Reels, Instagram feed and YouTube

● Partner with account and production leaders to identify creative objectives and strategies; provide input into creative briefs.

● Push the creative envelope, continually raising the bar on the quality of the client’s creative while delivering successful business solutions for our clients.

● Hiring and managing a team of designers, copywriters, social mavens, content creators and more. Ultimate accountability for the quality, strategy and integrity of all creative deliverables.

● Monitor trends in the social, digital, marketing, design and advertising industries in order to position the brands as the leaders in their industry.

● Improve accountability across creative teams through management and process improvement.

● Organize a creative team with appropriate structure, experience levels, diversity of skills, etc. Plan, assign, schedule and direct work.

We’d love for you to live in NYC, LA or Miami so you can join us IRL on occasion – but we all work from home full time. 



Send your portfolio / website / IG handle and available start date to [email protected]

OK COOL

We are a regional retailer looking for a creative director who is as passionate about serving multicultural consumers as we are. You are a team player and the kind of person who can lead and inspire a creative team composed of freelancers and internal creators to new heights.

We’re searching for someone who can use both sides of the brain. Process-driven, big picture thinker, strategic, with deep relationships and wide experience in the production space. Need someone who has experience with talented voice-over direction, video production, creative development, art direction, copywriting, and social media marketing

He/she is a naturally creative mind but also a team administrator. Someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment can juggle several projects, timelines, deliverables, internal meetings, and brainstorm sessions and who understands great creativity not only wins awards but drives revenue.

If this sounds like you, check us out! This is a full-time, on-site position located in Los Angeles.

Position Requirements

The Creative Director (CD) is responsible for overseeing and ensuring the outstanding quality of all creative products produced by the internal agency. The Creative Director reports to CMO and works collaboratively with agency staff and vendors, and regularly engages with cross-functional teams and leaders to manage a pipeline of work from multiple business units.

Summary of Key Responsibilities:

·       Senior creative leadership for projects within the internal agency, providing both a holistic overview as well as a detailed understanding of business units projects

·       Gaining/maintaining familiarity with the company industry, products, business culture, and competition

·       Supervises monthly creative and production of multichannel + omnichannel ad campaigns

·       Provides creative inspiration, direction, mentorship, coaching, guidance, and performance management/reviews to creative team members, ensuring each team member produces the highest quality of work

·       Understands advertising, digital, and media industry trends/developments and uses this knowledge to present business-building ideas for the client and the agency

·       Able to articulate to CMO and team members the rationale behind each concept

·       Work with CMO to identify solutions through creative and marketing strategies

·       Provides support to functional areas focusing on strategic objectives and consistent delivery of the creative product

·       Fosters strong collaborative teams across functional areas

·       Supervisory responsibilities include carrying out related responsibilities per the company’s policies and applicable laws and collaborating with Senior Leadership and HR on related issues, including hiring, training, planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding employees, and addressing resolving problems

·       Leads and mentors the creative team in developing brands, campaigns, and individual deliverables

·       Leads the creative process from inception through the review phases of the creative plan

·       Nurture talent while working to grow their knowledge and skills

·       Adheres to the stated workflow and processes of our company

Skills and Abilities:

·     Bilingual English/Spanish preferred

·       Functional expertise within Agency or in-house Creative 7+ years

·       Leading and mentoring teams 3+ years

·       Proven portfolio

·     Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university (preferably in creative, design, advertising, or related field)

·     Ability to communicate concepts and ideas to others through written, drawn, and verbal means, particularly design staff across disciplines and project managers

·     familiarity with agency terminology, processes, and emerging/relevant technology and social/media channels

·     Good listening skills

·     Strong creative leader with proven creative and execution

·     Sense of humor

Condidential

Position: Sr. Art Director

Location: Onsite Hybrid (3 days onsite)

Salary: $75,000-85,000, plus benefits

Hours: Full-time

Duration: Permanent

Our client, a marketing agency in Indianapolis, is looking for a Sr. Art Director. Our client works with businesses that make the world a better place, and who are willing to be bold. They believe in honesty, kindness, and being choosy about the clients they work with.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Collaborating with copywriters/creative partners to help develop strategy, concepts and ideas that align with the brand and brief that help push long term brand growth.
• Creating, reviewing, and approving designs and other types of graphics for projects
• Managing design workflows and collaborating with designers and writers to ensure projects are delivered on time and are of quality
• Communicating with clients and/or senior management to develop an aesthetic that reflects the goals of a campaign or project
• Generating cost estimates for projects and directing photo/video production with minimal oversight
• Presenting creative concepts to clients for approval
• Helping to train and mentor junior designers, art directors and copywriters.
• Bringing in new ideas and processes that benefit the creative department

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years
• Experience planning and directing complex photo/video shoots
• Experience managing a creative team for large scale campaigns
• Expertise with Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign and other job specific software and tools as well as familiarity with HTML, CSS, UX/UI
• Able to perform all Designer level responsibilities as needed for projects
• Able to fulfill responsibilities with little oversight

Vitamin T

Company Description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world’s relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available and universally accessible, at Cash App you’ll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.

Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees’ creativity and productivity wherever they are.

Check out our locations, benefits and more at cash.app/careers.

Job Description

As an Art Director on the Creative Campaign sub-team within our Creative Design team, you will be at the heart of coming up with big campaign ideas and boundless brand extensions, and work with teams across Cash App to bring them to life. You’ll be asked to translate project strategy into innovative advertising experiences across every medium. And you’ll be a big part of a small team tasked with launching creative marketing experiences that guide our mission, and drive our business and brand forward.

The Campaign Team focuses on creating innovative brand experiences that are built upon brand values and marketing strategy, solve for audience challenges, show up authentically in culture and are executed with a high level of craft. We work across most all traditional and non-traditional spaces, whether it’s the latest social platforms, video, web and mobile experiences, outdoor advertising, experiential installations, photography, animation, and more.

Our Creative Design team is made up of accomplished creative directors, copywriters, art directors, animators, designers and copywriters. This role reports to our Integrated Campaign Creative Director.

In This Role, You Will

• Translate brand strategy and human insight into powerful and purposeful creative solutions
• Develop innovative ideas and execute campaign projects across every medium.
• Produce, enhance, and voice creative presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Work with partners across Cash App (often collaborating with writers, designers, marketers, producers, and creative directors) to guarantee an integrated brand experience.

Qualifications

• You have 3 – 6 years of relevant creative advertising experience or freelance work
• You understand how marketing objectives, strategic positioning, and audience insights can influence creative ideation
• You have a portfolio of work that demonstrates an ability to conceive for a variety of audiences, brand challenges, styles, and media.
• You generate clear ideas and concepts that solve for brand marketing objectives
• You have an eye for great design and high production value, from initial presentation to final execution.
• You have experience pushing a brand forward with fresh, inventive ideas through both new and traditional brand channels / media
• You have experience working cross-functionally to launch creative deliverables
• You have an insatiable appetite for new content and culture, an irrational ambition to make things no one has ever made before, and a contagious passion for the work that confronts challenges with optimism.
• Please submit a portfolio of work in order to be considered.

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.
Cash App

Position: Creative Director

Location: Boston – Metro North

Starts: Within a Couple Weeks

Duration: Full-Time

Status: Full-Time

Rate: $150,000-$175,000 DOE

Our client, a family owned retailer, is looking for a Creative Director to join their team full-time! This opportunity will require Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays in their Acton office, with Mondays and Fridays remote.

As a Creative Director your will:

• Work closely with their VP of Marketing and Art Director to develop their visual brand voice, revamping their existing brand and rolling out new brand guidelines
• Manage and coach 3 direct reports including a copywriter, designer/ illustrator and social media manager
• Execute and bring to life creative that spans print, digital, social, video and web
• Identify and optimize branding strategy and creative assets based on industry trends
• Aid in marketing strategy and how branding contributes to organic social content, video content and in-store marketing/displays

The ideal candidate will have:

• Minimum of 7-10 years of experience and demonstrated aptitude in brand identity, graphic design, and art direction; video production oversight will be highly valued
• Background in retail or agency
• Experience building a brand identity from scratch or revamping an existing brand
• The ability to concept and flush out campaign work across digital, print, video, TV and social
• Experience managing a team
• Experience presenting and defending concepts (either client facing or internally)
• Desire to remain hands-on with execution
• Proven understanding of store design and visual merchandising
• Experience hiring and managing external creative, media and PR agencies

If you are interested in this Creative Director opportunity, apply now!

Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: [email protected]

Creative Circle

Position: Creative Brand Director

Location: Hybrid

Starts: As soon as candidate is identified

Duration: Full-Time

Status: Full-Time

Rate: Depends on Experience

One of our food safety clients is looking for a Creative Brand Manager to join their team as a direct hire, full-time employee and willing to work in the Lansing area.

About the company:

An international food safety company that provides test kits and products to detect dangerous substances in food.

We are looking for you!

• 5+ years experience as a creative leader in an agency or in -house setting
• Hands on experience in creative process, full-cycle brand concepts, marketing, design, brand development and more
• Adobe Creative Suite, MS office, CRM experience a bonus
• Leadership experience/have had direct reports a bonus

What you will do:

• Responsible for evolution of brand style guides and implementation across national and global scale
• Support all marketing initiatives including video, photography and technology/digital
• Lead a small team of creatives to ensure deliverables are within brand style from start to finish
• Work cross-functionally with marketing leaders and stakeholders to drive business
• If not local to Lansing, best fit candidates will still be considered; Relocation available

#IND123

Submit resume (and samples if applicable) to: [email protected]

Creative Circle

Our client is one of the most coveted skin care brands in the world. Based in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, they are a collaborative, dynamic, creative and closely connected group that has built the brand into a global beauty powerhouse and a leader in ultra-luxury skincare.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Art Director is responsible for strategic content creation from inception through completion. Reporting into the Vice President and the Executive Director, the art director develops concept campaigns from ideation to execution of all assets for a 360 campaign. The ideal candidate will create extraordinarily strong storytelling and is an analytical thinker, able to create holistic content and execute breakthrough consumer-centric initiatives across our brand channels – print, digital, and social media. They will work cross-functionally with Copy, Digital, Visual Merchandising, and the Social team to develop campaigns. The candidate will be an innovative, strategic, passionate creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.

RESPONSABILITIES:

• Create awe-inspiring, strong story-telling creative content creation/campaigns
• for all global programs that resonates with target audiences.
• A definitive creative vision, a high level of design sophistication, a keen eye for photography, and strong typography skills are essential.
• Direct projects from concept through coordination of photo shoots, retouching, mechanical production and release.
• Lead with various departments and functions including Designers, Visual Merchandising, Copywriters and Production Artists during project development.
• Partner with Operations to meet fast paced timelines
• Ensure best in class standards are being met.
• Integrate specific projects with overall brand standards and style guidelines.
• Take ownership of deliverables and initiatives with acute attention to craft and detail
• Be able to present ideas to senior management team
• Must have a good eye for layout and details and an expert in luxury space.
• Must have a good eye for color and experienced in image color markup

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Position requires 8+ years related experience at a traditional ad agency or similar experience in a brand creative studio.
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, and Keynote to create presentation decks
• Good interpersonal skills required, a team play mentality.
• Is self-motivated and resourceful with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Conceptual thinker. Being able to ideate, present, develop, and execute projects from start to finish in highest quality.
• Ability to work in a fast- paced environment, manage multiple projects under tight deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities and creative approaches.
• Strong organizational skills, meticulous and detailed oriented in both your technical work and your ability to expertly present your designs
• Great understanding of luxury market and be familiar with trends in culture, luxury arena, design, technology, user experience, and social media
• Understanding and implementation of animation and video production skills a plus.
• Working knowledge of prototyping tools (InVision, Marvel, etc.)
• Story boarding, motion graphics and video experience

TDA Creative

Atlanta Casting call for a major YouTube video!

We are looking for 4 female models to be voted on to become the new bachelorette for a mock bachelorette show on a major channel on YouTube.

If they select you to be 1 of the 4 voted in we would need a video of you describing yourself and they will upload this video for their followers to vote on.

You would be compensated $150 for this.

If you end up being chosen as the bachelorette we would need you for a whole day of filming and this video would go on their YouTube which gets millions of views.

Compensated would be $500.

Would need to be available this Monday or Tuesday in person!

Must be located in Atlanta and/or Atlanta metro area!

Must be 18 and up!

MUST NOT BE SICK OR HAVE A FEVER!!! 

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BELOW.

‘WICKED’ Open Call for Dancers

Open Calls for dancers in Los Angeles

For the Broadway and National Touring Companies of the blockbuster musical “Wicked”

Seeking: unique and fit dancers with strong ballet and jazz technique for Wayne Cliento’s edgy and contemporary choreography. Think SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE.

• All ethnicities, ages 18 to early 30s.
• Equity and Non-Equity dancers are welcome to attend.
• We also welcom perfomers of any gender identity.

Open Dance calls

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

• 10:00 AM: Musculine Dancer Tracks
• 10:45 AM: Musculine Dancer Tracks
  
• 11:30 AM: Feminine Dancer Tracks
• 12:15 PM: Feminine Dancer Tracks

Please hold the afternoon in case you’re asked to return to dance more.

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

• 10:00 AM: Feminine Dancer Tracks
• 10:45 AM: Feminine Dancer Tracks 
  
• 11:30 AM: Musculine Dancer Tracks
• 12:15 PM: Musculine Dancer Tracks

Please hold the afternoon in case you’re asked to return to dance more.

Location: 3rd Street Dance, 8558 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles, California 90048

Wear jazz shoes or sneakers, Bring photo/resume. After dancing you may be asked to sing 16 bars of musical theatre song or pop song; bring sheet music.

Callback will occur Thursday, october 20, 2022. morning/early afternoon.