Film Producer

We are a Human Experience Agency based in Philadelphia, PA. We’re passionate about removing the friction that can exist between products and people, through a combination of strategy, creative communications, and product development.

Responsibilities

• Managing video and motion graphics projects from concepts into finishing.
• Organizing and planning live-action shoots.
• Supporting project management to keep projects on tracks.
• Supporting the team of designers, writers, animators, editors, voiceover talent, and finishing freelancers (sound mix, color, captions).

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in film production, ideally with some marketing experience
• 75% of this role is post production functions – exposure to animation and editing
• Knowledge of production pipelines from start to finish
• Exposure to Frame io, Slack, Asana
• Expert in remote media management
• Detail obsessed (if you can memorize a brand’s hex #, that’s a bonus)

DAY-TO-DAY

• Running daily AM and PM touch-bases with film and motion team. Discuss any deliverables, roadblocks, and needs for each project with everyone.
• Attend any kick-off meeting.
• Attend weekly account status meetings.
• Set up any production kick-offs for each project.
• Working with project management team to set up and maintain project pipeline.
• Making sure the artist has all the appropriate assets they need to get the project done.
• Forecasting and keeping owners in loop about any production or support needs.
• Managing freelancer and internal hours, invoices, and receipts from production.
• Be the liaison between sound mix, voiceover, captioning, colorist, and other freelancers.

Production Duties

• Setting up production kick-off for video team.
• Touching base with account managers and project management about scope and any additional budget needs.
• Booking appropriate crew to get job done.
• Booking any additional freelancers to get job done.
• Facilitating any location scouts and any prep days prior to shoots.
• Holding and booking any crew and gear—within scope of budget.
• Booking any travel and any crew meals for production dates.
• Creating call sheets, schedules, and any appropriate documents.
• Purchasing any duplicate media or harddrives needed for DIT,assistant camera, and/or director of photography. Smaller shoots you will be required to dump footage.
• Transferring footage on shared server and nearline drives and/or handing off to editor to set up project.
• Working with editor or assistant editor to create transcription files to then submit to castingwords.com to then make transcriptions (see below for login)
• Coordinate with intern/PA to return any unneeded purchases.
• Logging Expenses.

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