Vancouver Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Job Title: Executive Producer

Flare Post & Audio provides full-service in-house editorial, online finishing and audio with capabilities of animation, VFX and colour grading to BBDO clients. We have an incredible team of people that are not only great at their jobs, but also amazing individuals work to with.

The Executive Producer role at Flare is responsible for managing and overseeing the team and workflow which currently consists of post producers, editorial, online and audio. The role requires someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, can scope and bid projects, assigns the work and ensures that the projects are delivered on time, on budget and with high quality standards. The candidate must have strong communication and organization skills as well as flexibility with schedules to be available for the on-demand work necessary to meet client expectations. The candidate should have a strong knowledge of ever-changing production industry protocol, rates and process in order to generate and negotiate fair and competitive bids.

The Executive Producer will report directly to the SVP, Integrated Production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with SVP-IP on department requirements, budgeting, staff resourcing and scheduling new and upcoming projects.
• Lead the department, ensuring accurate forecasting of resources, budgetary management, production completion and scheduled deliveries.
• Scope & bid projects.
• Work closely with other Production Leads to problem solve and build production approach for projects.
• Work closely with other Production Leads to maintain department workflow efficiencies and maintain shared asset management and services.
• Oversee the management and administration of the post-production infrastructure, i.e. storage, software, hardware, transcode and QC servers including all upgrades.
• Participate in monthly finance reporting.
• Participate in review, updating rate cards.
• Create and maintain a collaborative and positive work environment.
• Ensure quality control from team.

Our ideal candidate:

• 8+ years’ experience in post-production and/or audio with excellent leadership, communication and negotiation skills.
• Excellent knowledge evaluating production and post-production reels and creative artists.
• Excellent knowledge building production timelines and estimates.
• Able to work across a wide array of projects.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, has “we not me” attitude and is a natural team leader.
• Proven ability to work with highly confidential materials and matters with extreme professionalism.
• Has experience in the advertising industry either with post-production direct or agency direct (desirable).
• Has an understanding of the animation process (desirable).

Diversity, Inclusion + Company Profile:

At BBDO, we encourage a variety of perspectives and backgrounds to foster a strong, safe, and creative work environment. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. We also want to ensure candidates can show up as their best selves during the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation throughout any portion of the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected]

At BBDO Canada, we have a passion for creating compelling creative through data-driven insights and strategies. Our work spans all channels and categories; providing our clients with integrated solutions that drive results.

Come here to do the best work of your career, to be inspired and to inspire others. Working here’s not just an advertising job – because honestly you can find that anywhere. Work here to work with people as passionate as you are and to bring our clients the most unique creative solutions for all their business challenges. Visit bbdo.ca for more information.

BBDO Canada

Crossover is the world’s #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We’re recruiting this role for our client, Write of Passage. Have you got what it takes?

Are you looking for a massive creative opportunity within a growing company—a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Are you constantly writing scripts in your head? If so, help us create epic media that makes learning to write fun— and share the Write of Passage brand with people all over the world.

Your role is to translate words into compelling imagery. Listen, it’s way more than that, but that’s the essence. Our company is bursting with personality, and we want you to translate that energy into a radical overhaul of our narrative presence.

Write of Passage is creating the best online writing school in the world. Over 1,000 students worldwide have learned a system for publishing quality ideas, connecting with like-minded people, and elevating their careers through writing on the Internet. Our graduates are using online writing to build audiences, launch businesses, and make an impact—living life on their terms!

Write of Passage is considered the gold standard for community-driven, cohort-based, online courses. And, we’re growing. Our vision is to build a global platform for writing instruction in the 21st century while delivering the best educational experience in the world.

We’re a writing company, so the bar is high. Writing visuals is a unique (and niche!) skill with a different mindset than text. You know how to make information aesthetic and infuse stories with a narrative pulse.

We work within limited recording windows, so our creativity happens in prep and post. You help us develop captivating ideas that we execute swiftly on shoot day and set us up with room for innovation in post-production.

What You Will Be Doing

• Writing scripts for a variety of purposes (YouTube videos, courses, workshops, ads, reels, podcasts, etc.)
• Generating first drafts from the title/thumbnail directives of our YouTube Strategy team and bullet points of Product/Marketing
• Relentlessly filter every line of the script through the question “is this visual?” to ensure we add depth and counter-melody to the voiceover, not just 1:1 representation
• Come up with wonky approaches to integrating archival/stock footage so that it feels dynamic, playful, and uniquely Write of Passage

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Constantly being interrupted by meetings; you’ll get in the zone and do deep creative work
• Sticking to the tools and techniques you’ve always used; you’ll be forever expanding your creative arsenal
• Being told exactly what to do and when to do it; you’ll flex your creative muscle daily

Creative Director Key Responsibilities

You’ll visualize scenes, then create the blueprint for communicating their vital essence.

Basic Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience as a writer (screenwriter, script writer, copywriter, etc.)
• Technical expertise with editing and production, either directing or producing
• Experience working with remote, asynchronous communication and editing tools

Nice-to-have Requirements

Technical expertise and professional experience in any of the following:

• Storyboarding
• Design/Typography
• Comedy
• Acting/Public Speaking
• Music

About Write Of Passage

Write of Passage is the gold standard for community-driven, cohort-based, online courses. And, we’re growing. Our vision is to build a global platform for writing instruction in the 21st-century while delivering the best educational experience in the world.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with Crossover

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover. The compensation level for this role is $30 USD/hour, which equates to $60,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

What to expect next:

• You will receive an email with a link to start your self-paced, online job application.
• Our hiring platform will guide you through a series of online “screening” assessments to check for basic job fit, job-related skills, and finally a few real-world job-specific assignments.

Important! If you do not receive an email from us:

• First, emails may take up to 15 minutes to send, refresh and check again.
• Second, check your spam and junk folders for an email from Crossover.com, mark as “Not Spam” since you will receive other emails as well.
• Third, we will send to whatever email account you indicated on the Apply form – by default, that is the email address you use as your LinkedIn username and it might be different than the one you have already checked.
• If all else fails, just reset your password by visiting https://www.crossover.com/auth/reset-password if you already applied using LinkedIn EasyApply.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4832-CA-Vancouve-CreativeDirect

Crossover for Work

Photo Shoot Casting Lifestyle Models

We are currently seeking lifestyle models 55 yrs+ for branding advertisements for a high-end luxury resort & spa in the Okanagan. Shooting for 1-2 days in mid-October (dates TBD).

Open to all ethnicities, all sexual orientations and sizes.

Real couples are preferred but individual submissions are also welcome.

Details as follows:

• Non Union
  
• Models must self-drive to the shooting location in Vernon, BC
  
• Daily rate is a flat fee of $500-$700 (based on experience)
  
• Gas allowance provided
  
• Food & meals provided
  
• Must be comfortable in swimwear for filming around the pool & spa

$3,000/Day Auto-Collision Commercial Casting Call

Milo Casting is seeking Fluent French or Bilingual Seniors for an Auto Collision Repair Commercial shooting in Toronto. Pays $3000 for a one day shoot!
About You
1. Looking for Men and Women, any ethnicity, ages roughly 60-80+ years
2. You are a fluent French Speaker. (Bilingual is an asset, but not required!)
3. You are comfortable in front of camera, memorizing and delivering dialogue
4. You must be non union to be considered for this project.
Details & Submission Information
Those chosen for this campaign will be paid $3000 for a 1 day shoot

You must be available for these key dates:
AUDITION: Self tape Audition
RECALL: Zoom recall – September 14th
FITTING: September 15th or 16th
SHOOT: September 19th
Submissions are due by: Monday September 12th

Financial Services Commercial Casting Call

$7,500 Commercial Casting Call for Improv Talents

CASTING SKETCH COMEDY/IMPROV TALENT FOR COMMERCIAL!
***SPEC CHANGE FOR FOOD DELIVERY HOST***

Casting sketch comedy/improv talent for commercial!

Specs: 

HOST – AGE RANGE 30-45 – ALL GENDERS – ALL ETHNICITIES – 

• MUST HAVE SKETCH COMEDY/IMPROV BACKGROUND

Conflicts: food delivery services

Non-Union

Shoot Date: October 6th & 7th

Pay Rate: $7500 – ALL INCLUSIVE

For 2 shoot days, 1 fitting, usage 1 year online/socials only – w/ option to renew

Location: Shooting in Toronto

(Client will not bring anybody in from out of town)

Location: Hybrid (Remote/Alymer Ontario)

What we are looking for.

We are on the hunt for an Art Director to round out a passionate and highly creative internal design team. This position calls for a highly collaborative leader with a creative spark and a keen understanding of marketing communications and brand building in the cannabis space. You must possess the ability to adapt for an industry in constant flux, have some sharp concept ideation abilities, strong communication skills, and the passion and self-motivation to be the best in the business. You love to create new processes, streamlining needs to get more done faster (and better). You thrive with innovative problem-solving, from concept development to production design, through to fast high-caliber executions. Your style is diverse and can span across communication touch points, from instore to online, digital and print. We need someone that knows the rules yet isn’t afraid of how to push them to their breaking point.

Why you’ll love this job.

The creative challenges are as diverse in medium, as they are in demographics, so there is never a dull moment. From the instore customer journey to digital online touch points (and everything in between), this is about as creative as you can get. If we can dream it up, we make it happen – our only limitation on what is possible is ourselves (and sometimes Health Canada). Motif offers the ideal environment for creative brains to thrive, as design and innovation are an integral part of the entire process.

About Motif

Motif Labs, a licensed cannabis extraction facility in Aylmer On, is a rapidly growing company that is thriving in the Canadian cannabis space. With creativity, passion, and innovation at its core, our internal brands have developed into industry leaders. The best part, the momentum has only just begun as we continue to diversify our consumer-goods portfolio.

Primary Responsibilities

• Understanding of cannabis retail landscape in Canada, and knowledge of retail customer journeys
• Work with the Creative Director, designers, brand managers, and other team members to develop holistic ideas and design solutions, and tactical executions
• Expertise in the creation and execution of integrated marketing programs and campaigns, which may include retail, in-store, video content, storyboards, traditional media, ecommerce, websites/microsites, tradeshow, animation/motion graphics, social media.
• Experience and skill in video content (motion graphics, animation, live action) concepting, visualization and art direction.
• Understands and demonstrates the best ways to communicate in different mediums (print vs digital vs video, for example)
• Leads/oversees the development of presentation decks, deliverables and ensure timelines are met
• We value culture and teamwork over egos — must work well within a team
• Confidently conveys and presents ideas and concepts; both with internal teams, as well as with broader internal/external audiences
• Research and understand the Canadian cannabis retail landscape, seeking new opportunities to show case our brands
• Actively participates and engages in internal review meetings and brainstorming sessions
• Demonstrates a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-it-done attitude
• Proactively seeks solutions to problems and challenges
• Helps create efficiencies and improve processes
• Lives and breathes marketing communications – gets excited to talk shop and always learn
• You get excited about trying something new and pushing of what’s possible

Qualifications

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Graphic Design/Advertising & Marketing or related field
• 7+ years of experience in marketing communications/advertising – CPG and retail experience strongly encouraged.
• Keeps up with trends and seeks opportunities to grow and network outside of the office
• Well-rounded portfolio showcasing strong, innovative creative ideas, presentation skills and an excellent understanding of different communication spaces, mediums and approaches, as well as design, typography, photography and Illustration use. You demonstrate originality, perfect execution, and multidisciplinary thinking through your work
• Expert fluency in design software, especially Adobe Creative Cloud, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. You know how to design for web and print
• Detail-oriented: You work pixel-perfect, are highly detail-oriented, and have an excellent feel for typography.
• Brand guardian: You can act as brand police, while being flexible enough to allow the brand to evolve
•  A strategic thinker that works well independently and as part of a core team.
• Strong aptitude in applying design thinking to advertising communications.
• Innovator: You don’t believe in the status quo, and you like to make things happen.
• Communicator. You can communicate well and get your ideas across. You have strong professional interpersonal communication skills, and email writing.
• Time management: You can manage your time, hit deadlines, and be on time for meetings, all while juggling multiple projects.
• Team management: You can lead and inspire junior designers on the team, while providing constructive feedback to meet the creative requirements
• Team player: You are positive, collaborative and a contagious spirit who works well with others.
• Ability to Learn and Share: You approach the work with an open mind to learn while sharing knowledge.
• Cultural player: You contribute to the culture of the company and take part in activities that foster the company spirit.
• Experience in cannabis, beverage, alcohol or relatable industries is an asset

Reports to Creative Director

NOTE: All candidates are required to pass a criminal background check and provide a copy for employment at Motif. We thank all interested candidates. Only those whom we have selected for an interview will be contacted.

HOW TO APPLY: 

YOU MUST submit your resume and cover letter to Motif Labs careers page at: www.motiflabs.ca to be considered.

Motif Labs

Squamish Locals Casting Call

Work Dates: September 7

Age Range: 20-55 years old

Shooting Location: Squamish

Rate: $17.90/Hour

Application Deadline: September 2, 2022

Requirements: Must have Canadian residence or valid work visa.

Health and Safety Requirements: Production will provide a paid pre-employment – Performers must be 3x vaccinated.

Covid Test Prior to Workday. 

VICE ‘Tales from the Territories’ Casting Young Dwayne Johnson

Company Description

The Broadcast Media Assistant contributes to the coordination of the media buying process and is essential to the day-to-day management of the client through the MBP process, buy maintenance, and performance. The individual in this role is required to work well in a team-based, fast paced, detail-oriented environment. A successful Broadcast Media assistant is resourceful and demonstrates the initiative to participate in advanced projects.

Job Description

• Assists in the development of media presentations and tactical POV’s.
• Ensures key information is provided to the media operations and media planning teams throughout the campaign activation and maintenance process.
• Supports strong working relationships with vendors to achieve campaign objectives and fulfil client campaign goals.
• Supports the negotiation process for approved media buy activations- TV, Radio, OLV.
• Conducts research and development of media measurements – Audience, Ratings, Etc.
• Supports the media operations team with client financials: budget reconciliation and budget management.
• Contributes to strategizing ways to improve and optimize campaign performance to meet client KPIs.
• Assists with client reporting commentary that is easy to understand and also compelling and persuasive.
• Enters key client information into media buy systems.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary Degree or Diploma in Media, Advertising, Business Administration, Marketing, or related field.
• Strong to advanced level MS Office skills: Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP’s), Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work with cross functional teams and multiple stakeholders.
• Aptitude for priority management where it concerns managing multiple deliverables/work streams.
• Ability to organize ideas and present back information logically and sequentially.
• Knowledge of broadcast industry tools (Lens, Infosys, DDS, AdTraq, etc.) is considered a strong asset.

Additional Information

We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds foster a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better business results. We strive to create workplaces that reflect the clients we serve and where everyone feels empowered to bring their full, authentic selves to work. We are committed to working with our candidates from all ability levels throughout the recruitment process to ensure that they have what they need to be at their best. If you need accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact [email protected] or to begin a conversation about your individual accessibility needs throughout the hiring process.

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