Music Video Casting Calls and Auditions

Description

Department Summary

The Creative Solutions department provides a crucial service to the commercial teams allowing them to generate revenue across all Future brands. Our Ideation team provides innovative sales packages and pitching options, and our Production team translates those ideas and produces content that deliver above expectations. The team works across a wide range of projects such as video productions, online content marketing, digital advertising and print and we coordinate with internal departments and third party suppliers to put it all together. It is a fast paced department that offers daily challenges and we have a fantastic team that loves what they do.

Wallpaper*

The successful candidate will primarily, but not necessarily exclusively work on Wallpaper*. Wallpaper* is the global design authority, leading the way in architecture, design, art, entertaining beauty & grooming, transport, technology, fashion, and watches & jewellery. Founded as a print magazine in 1996, it has evolved into a multi-channel media brand. With a strong track record of discovering next-generation talents and creative matchmaking, Wallpaper* is at the forefront of the global creative community. It continues to change the way the world thinks about design.

Job Summary & Purpose

Using your creative thinking, superior organisational, time management and communication skills you will be responsible for the smooth delivery of projects, big and small. From the moment we receive the brief you will become the point of contact for the client and responsible for distilling that brief into a project plan with a clear set of deliverables. From small studio shoots to large location shoots you will need to put together a team of content creators to deliver on our idea and produce engaging and high quality content that will be distributed across the Future brands.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Capture the scope and spec of work at briefing point and outline any bottle necks, risks or threats to project delivery.
• You will work across internal and external teams so being able to collaborate and build relationships with a range of different people is essential.
• Put together a crew of talented people from photographers, script writers or influencers to deliver content that is on brief and delivers to the clients objectives.
• Manage internal and external stakeholders throughout the lifespan of the project. Keeping all teams working in alignment with each other. Being the linchpin that is needed to keep projects on track.
• Manage a range of complex projects with multi channel deliverables.
• Organise all pre-production requirements such as call sheets, permit application, insurance, talent contracts, IP contracts, mood boards, script creation, freelancer booking etc.
• Pre-sale you will be working with commercial teams and internal planning teams to prepare budgets and costing sheets for bids going to market.
• Post sale, you will be working with internal project management teams to ensure that the assets you create arrive with the PM on time so that they can deliver on their part of the project.
• Managing budgets and spending.
• Building excellent client relationships and using your commercial acumen to spot opportunities for new projects.
• Amazing client management skills that you use to keep our clients fully briefed on project status, Sending updated tracking documents and attending client status meetings.
• Raising POs, tracking cost, updating and managing budget spreadsheets – updating management on a weekly basis,
• Constantly develop your knowledge of marketing solutions within Future and highlight any opportunities for new product offerings
• Work with the HoD to identify upcoming issues & resource issues
• Be an ambassador for the Creative Solutions department by embodying our values.

Requirements

Essential skills and experience

• Demonstrable experience with content creation in both video and photography.
• Experience of events / experiential / online streaming
• Project management skills with a knowledge of a project management process or methodology
• Knowledge of marketing products, including print, digital, social, newsletters, events etc.
• The ability to think creatively to translate a creative idea in to something that can be produced for the budget and time constraints without compromising the integrity of the initial idea.
• Ability to track and manage projects within the agreed budget
• Campaign reporting, with an ability to write reports for an internal and external audience
• Client facing
• Strong customer services skills
• Experience of commissioning freelance work and an understanding of the contractual and legal requirements of the industry.
• Confidence to manage cross departmental issues and ensure the
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management.
• A desire to get stuck in and get the work done.

Benefits

What will I get in return?

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

• Unlimited paid time off (yes you read that right!)
• A share in our success- every member of staff receives a profit pool bonus at the end of our financial year
• Central office locations with safe working spaces and tonnes of flexibility to work remotely as required
• Discounted digital magazine subscriptions and access to back copies of our print magazines and bookazines
• Annual Future conference – get together with your colleagues to celebrate success and look forward to what’s next
• Regular colleague events arranged by our wonderful Community & Culture committees
• Huge opportunities to learn and develop whether through professional qualifications, exposure to incredible business projects or informal lunch & learns, hosted by your colleagues

We are Future

Connectors. Creators. Experience Makers

We’re Future. We’re 2300 colleagues over 200 brands speaking to 400 million people every month across the globe through websites, events and magazines. We haven’t just survived in 2020, we’ve thrived, increasing our audience share, taking more number one positions, acquiring new businesses and launching new brands.

And we don’t plan on stopping any time soon.

We’ve got an ambitious plan for 2021 that will build on our growth momentum and unlock new opportunities. We’re calling it Future 3.0 and we’re looking for talented people who want to be a part of it.

Inclusion & Diversity

At Future we are passionate about ensuring that as a business, we are continuing to promote diversity and inclusion not just in our recruitment processes, but everything we do.

Future is an equal opportunity employer and we will continue to ensure our recruitment process will be free of bias and our workplaces are inclusive, positive, free of discrimination and respects all backgrounds and beliefs. Our culture is underpinned by our values which will continue to ensure that all applicants, current and future employees are treated with respect and fairness.

We are continuing to be inclusive in our approach to flexible working, ensuring that we are making adjustments where required and providing our employees the tools and support to enable them to grow and flourish in their careers
Future

Our client is looking for an experienced producer who will be responsible for working closely with their internal production team to produce digital assets for its social media channels.

Your responsibilities as the Producer include start-to-finish organizing and tracking of video production deliverables; assisting in tracking stakeholder feedback; and managing the production pipeline.

Description

• Manage pipeline, milestones, production schedule, and deliverable tracking.
• Proactively handle day-to-day concerns and troubleshooting of production challenges
• including conflicts in timeline scheduling and talent resources.
• Ensure the standardization of post-production processes across ingest, edit, and
• delivery.
• Foster relationships with cross-functional teams to ensure that we’re delivering against
• asks while crafting an environment that allows for innovation.
• Ability to work unusual hours, as needed.
• Coordinate with team leads to prioritize assignments to post team.
• QA videos and supporting content to ensure accuracy
• Assist team on various projects to help improve the overall processes and workflows
• amongst internal partners.
• Preferred Candidate
• 8 – 10 years experience in video production
• Experience creating and maintaining production schedules and keeping projects on
• track
• Experience in project management and team collaboration tools (Wrike, Quip, Box,
• Slack, etc)
• Strong background in social media platforms and/or the willingness to become an
• expert
• Competencies
• Ability to maintain consistently excellent standards under pressure
• Experience in finding ways to streamline or simplify processes without compromising
• quality
• Extreme attention to detail, combined with the ability to focus only on the details that
• matter
• Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time in a fast-paced environment and
• adapt quickly to changing circumstances
• Strategic thinker
• Keep up to date on the latest consumer electronics products, solutions, and related
• technologies.
• Be a collaborative team player who’s fun to work with.

Core Studio

At Think Jam we work on some of the most mind-blowing entertainment IP and franchises in the world. Some are so new and exciting we aren’t even allowed to talk about it! Every day we get to work on, and with, great fandoms and dream properties.

Whether you call yourself a fan, a nerd, a geek, or a part-time historian of animated classics… we need you for a very special, entertainment fashion, and lifestyle project starting January 2022.

We are looking for a creative, proactive and organized producer to deliver outstanding social media content, that spans consumer products, creators, casting, physical shoots, and vertical video — with style, quality, and fun at its core.

The role will see you budget, plan, cast, brief, resource, and produce a range of photo and video shoots, as well as brief and liaise with creators across the US to bring the world of products to life for fans. You’ll be working directly with our Creative Directors and Accounts team to lead on all aspects of production shoots involving products, models, creators, locations, and more. This is a fast-paced hands-on role for a Los Angeles-based creative producer who lives for the worlds of fandom, content and merchandise.

In this role, you will get to:

• Ideate, produce, and deliver social creative executions
• Organize, resource, and implement video and photoshoots
• Collaboration with our social, accounts and creative teams
• Work directly under our Creative Directors
• Build a network of creators across the US
• Budgeting and liaising with third-party vendors
• Delivering quality content that raises the bar for fans

We are looking for someone who has:

• Proven experience in delivering high quality social creative
• Track record in managing and logistics of production shoots
• The ability to deliver a variety of creative deliverables in a dynamic environment.
• Experience with social campaign creative and the social creator landscape
• Great communication and organizational skills
• An aptitude for problem-solving with strong attention to detail

Other information

Think Jam is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. We actively encourage people from all walks of life, including those from historically marginalized groups and non-traditional backgrounds to apply.

We strive to create a great environment and an opportunity to work with an excellent team of people. Our perks include:

• Health insurance package
• Parental leave package
• 15 vacation days; rising 1 per year up to 20 days
• 11 public holidays
• Sick time, plus time off for birthdays, cultural/religious holidays, voting, and charity work.
• 401K facility

Next Steps

To apply, please send a short overview (no more than 2 paragraphs) outlining your experience along with any relevant work experience, content examples, and a resume to [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you.

Think Jam

Trek Bikes

Apple

Our retail client is looking for a Creative Producer to join their team on a full-time, permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity to be directly involved in the photo & video shoots of one of Canada’s most established brands.

What you’ll be doing as the Creative Producer in this role:

– Organizing logistics for photo & video shoots including sending out casting calls, scheduling appointments with models, and adding casting images to their internal files.

– Booking shoot locations, transportation of equipment & product, sending call sheets, and securing catering.

– Managing the post-production process by communicating with external retouchers, colourists, editors, and composers.

– Collaborating with the production team, creative team, and styling team.

Skills and Experience:

– 5+ years exp as a Producer

– 2+ years exp coordinating photo & video shoots

– Retail or luxury brand experience is a huge plus

– Exceptional communication & organization skills

Creative Circle

Influencer, Social Media Management

About Trend Hunter

With nearly 3 billion views from over 150,000,000 people, Trend Hunter is the world’s largest, most popular trend website and an innovation consultancy. We help the world’s leading brands, like Starbucks, Google, Disney, Netflix, Universal, NASA, and Tesla, predict and create the future. With our New York Times bestselling methods, Artificial Intelligence, and big data, we’ve created thousands of custom trend reports, inspiring keynotes, action-oriented workshops, and epic Future Festival events.

Behind the scenes, we have a team of 60+ people, with our office located in the heart of Toronto’s Queen West neighbourhood. Wall Street Journal has featured us as Workplace of the Day; we are also “One of Canada’s Best Start-up Work Cultures,” according to Digital Magazine. We pride ourselves on our warm, dynamic culture, which prioritizes the personal and professional development of all team members. We value individual personality and celebrate all wins — big and small — within our organization through weekly End of Week get-togethers, a peer-nominated Platinum Rewards Program, team excursions, and an infectiously enthusiastic attitude. As an organization, we are committed to constantly improving our efforts within the causes we support through our employee-led DEI Committee, Eco Team, and our sister site, SocialBusiness.org.

Trend Hunter employees are currently working remotely, with plans to re-open our offices in January based on a hybrid model, where employees will be expected to come into the office at least once a week with their teams (our offices are located in downtown Toronto, at Queen S. & Spadina). 

The Opportunity

Trend Hunter continues to grow as a company and with this acceleration comes an opportunity to really take advantage of our market potential. Growing from 30 to 70 over the last year, the team is constantly challenged with new responsibilities, creative challenges and areas of development. Our client list is constantly adding top-tier names like Nasa, Samsung and Netflix and this role is central to bringing Trend Hunter solutions to the innovation community. 

The Role

Trend Hunter is looking for a highly organized, self-motivated, creative, and passionate marketer responsible for assisting in planning and executing our social channels, as well as growing the personal brand of our CEO, Jeremy Gutsche. 

This individual will have a strong understanding of most social media platforms (LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok etc), and will be able to seamlessly jump from our brand voice, to Jeremy’s voice across platforms. You will also be responsible for creating content and copy for our weekly newsletter, as well as managing Jeremy’s overall brand and presence. 

How You’ll Make an Impact 

• Manage all social media accounts for both Trend Hunter and Jeremy Gutsche
• Website: https://www.jeremygutsche.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremygutsche
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremygutsche
• Develop social media plans that take into account upcoming promotions, as well as providing trend inspiration for all followers
• Head up Influencer Management strategy; look at competitors, best in class examples, yearly planning, overall brand strategy etc. all tied to building up Jeremy’s personal brand and status as a world renowned keynote speaker
• Create unique, well thought out content for our weekly newsletter that goes out to over 250,000+ people
• Analyze the success of posts in order to strategically plan for the future 

Requirements

• Self-motivated learner with a curiosity to identify new opportunities and efficiencies in business processes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to develop and maintain solid working relationships
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders internally and externally
• Strong attention to detail with a hyper focus on organization
• Excellent writing skills with the ability to tell a compelling story
• A working knowledge of video editing skills is not required, but is an asset

All applicants should have completed their undergraduate studies and should be ambitious and passionate about social media management and influencer marketing/management. Applicants should be familiar with the website’s content, Future Festival & advisory services. They should have some experience in social media management and copywriting. Please attach social media handles either on your resume or within your application. 

Start Date: January 2022

Please apply by sending a resume and cover letter to [email protected]

Trend Hunter

We are now casting a special project this Thursday in Atlanta for one of the biggest Hip Hop artists in the World

• Rate: $1200 per lead models (6)
• Rate: $500 per feature models (10)

Talent must be available all day this Thursday

No Exceptions

This is a full 10 – 12 hour shoot

Casting Call

Music Video Shooting 11/29/2021

• Looking for a female model/actress who has 700k or more followers on Instagram
• All Day Hours
• Must have reliable transportation this is shooting near or in Santa Clarita

Rate $1,000

Trigger Casting is looking for babies 

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Seeking:

• We need 4 babies ages 6 – 10 months
• We need 1 baby ages 6 – 10 months with eczema (skin patches that are dry/red/itchy)
• We would love at least one of the parents to also submit (or both)!!

This is a video shoot for digital media for 1 year

Booked talent receive $700 minimum – $5,000 max per person, depending on usage