JUNIOR Producer Wanted – Melbourne Based

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Big Review Tv is looking for a full time junior producer. Salary is 50K p.a and applications close November 30th!

ROLE DESCRIPTION: This role requires superior organisation skills to manage clients, team members and scheduling. As a producer you will be making videos to suit client’s needs whilst maintaining a budget, problem solving and meeting deadlines.

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Welcome calls to clients in order to inform them of the production process and plan
  • Create relationships with the clients and translate their needs into their video production plan
  • Schedule, organise and supervise shoot days – including the management of on-set crews by providing them with a detailed brief and call sheet of the client’s needs
  • Manage client expectations if there are any difficulties or obstacles in capturing their video and understand what we can and can’t produce within the budget and timeframe
  • Report to the Senior Producer any time there may be a variation to their package that affects production time, budget or number of videos in order to problem solve and come to a middle ground for both Big Review TV and the client
  • Enter production details into the spreadsheets in order to maintain an accurate overview of a client’s production package and keep an accurate budget
  • Liaise with the editor assigned to projects in order to communicate the main messages of the videos
  • Monitor deadlines for the editing process, make sure these are met or manage client’s expectations if there is a delay
  • Formulate long-lasting relationships with clients that hopefully lead to a renewal of their packages

Skills:

  • Problem solving
  • People Management
  • Scheduling
  • High understanding of Google docs, Google drive, and the CRM
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Broad understanding of creative process requirements
  • Complete understanding of the Big Review TV filming process
  • Highly organized and able to meet deadlines
  • Excellent verbal and communication skills
  • Accepting of creative collaboration from creatives within Big Review TV
  • Personable and able to create long-lasting relationships

Contact Emily Kay – emily.kay@bigreviewtv.com
FACEBOOK – www.facebook.com/BigReviewTV.Melbourne

Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance Networking Drinks

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MEAA invites you to catch up with colleagues from across the media industry at our Sydney Media Drinks. We’re back on the Aurora Hotel Rooftop, Surry Hills and we’ll be there from 6.00pm until late.
Canapes and drinks provided at bar prices. Non members are welcome.

DATE AND TIME: Wed 7 December 2016, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM AEDT

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LOCATION :Aurora Hotel (ROOFTOP), 324 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010

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Toronto Short Film Festival

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The Toronto Short Film Festival is in its second year of screenings and this is a great opportunity for MAP students to enter their projects into. With no pre-screening requirements and open to all shorts under 50 minutes (including documentaries), it’s worth spending a couple of minutes to enter. The DEADLINE is November 18th so there’s still almost a solid month to get your submission together! There’s also a late entry deadline that’s not until Jan. next year. Some more info below. Enter here

MISSION & OBJECTIVE

Celebrate the very best of international short filmmaking at the Toronto Short Film Festival.

The Toronto Short Film Festival puts on a week of screenings and networking events providing ample opportunities for short filmmakers to showcase their achievements, learn from fellow filmmakers, and build contacts for future collaborations. The Festival also benefits from the vibrant Toronto filmmaking community.

The Toronto Short Film Festival runs every year in March at the Carlton Cinema in downtown Toronto.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

We work to make the Toronto Short Film Festival one of the best places in North American for short filmmakers to screen and be seen. Showcasing the best of international short films, the festival is offers Toronto cinephiles an extraordinary chance to catch the latest trends in cutting edge filmmaking.

Hosting filmmakers from many countries in one of the world’s great film cities makes for an amazing festival full of talent, enthusiasm, and dozens of fabulous films.

Unpaid Internship: Production Intern

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The Steve Jaggi Co. is a full service motion picture production company that produces in house feature motion picture content and provides executive services and production, sales and marketing consultancy to third parties, both domestic and foreign.

A unique opportunity has opened for an intern to join their team. You will have the opportunity to be trained by seasoned industry practitioners in a number of areas including but not limited to:

  • project development;
  • physical production & post production;
  • film marketing and digital sales.

The right candidate requires the following skills:

  • Intermediate or higher skills in Microsoft Office programmes inc. Word and Excel;
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
  • Preferably a good understanding of Illustrator, Photoshop, CS6 / CC;
  • An eye for detail;
  • Demonstrable research skills;
  • An understanding of social media applications inc. Facebook, Instagram & Tumblr;
  • Professional attitude towards practitioners and clients.

Additional (but not required, as training will be provided) skills include:

  • Movie Magic Budgeting;
  • Movie Magic Schedulling;
  • HootSuite.

It’s important that you are passionate about film and are motivated to learn. Experts within their  team will provide support during the internship, but you will be expected work independently as well.

This intern position adheres to the Fair Work Australia guidelines governing unpaid work and internships:

  • For the right applicant this position is available as either part or full time for a maximum duration of three months;
  • Any and all required equipment will be provided;
  • This internship has been designed to fit in with post secondary study requirements and if required we are able to liaise with educational institutions to ensure study accreditation.
  • Interns will be expected to make their own way to work and provide their own lunch. Any travel from the office to film sets or third party sites, as well as meals offsite and/or outside of lunch hour will be provided.

Apply here

APPLICATIONS CLOSE OCTOBER 25, 2016

 

 

Crowd Funding Your Next Project

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Most students and alumni use Pozible for their crowd funding campaigns due to its popularity, user interface and success rates. Being an Australian backed initiative that was designed and created for Australian projects, there is a lot that stills needs to be known when creating a successful campaign. You’ll find below a copy of the Pozible Crowd Funding Handbook to help you learn more about reaching your target, gaining a following and making this massive process worth while! Enjoy.

The Handbook

EDITOR/DESIGNER – Chimney Group

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Contract terms: Full time employee with 6 months probationary period.

Salary: negotiable depending on experience.

Experience: minimum 3 years relevant experience.

About Chimney

Chimney have storytelling at heart. . Though Post-production is their first true love, they’ve expanded across the spectrum of creative production, delivering effective and visually superior work with a strong focus on client service. They work with high end moving images, producing TV commercials and online films in all their variety.

Based in Surry Hills, Sydney, Chimney Australia is one of 12 worldwide offices of the Chimney Group, a dynamic, entrepreneurial and award winning business with over 380 global employees.

About the Role, and You

They are currently searching for an experienced Editor/Motion Graphics designer to join them full time. You must have a keen sense for design and a strong ability to multitask, bringing several projects at a time to life, from concept to delivery.

Equally important is a developed understanding and sensitivity towards client/brand/product needs, as-well as an eye for quality, as this role will require you to manage external designers/editors to ensure creative and technical excellence.

If you are self motivated, highly organised and a team player, then they want to hear from you!

Essential skills:

  • Excellent eye for motion design
  • Intuition for storytelling
  • Highly skilled with After Effects & Premiere Pro
  • Comfortable with Photoshop, Illustrator
  • Video editing skills
  • Knoweldge of CAD and Adstream processes

Highly valued skills, but not required:

  • Cinema 4D
  • Da Vinci Resolve
  • Directing

Culture:

Chimney Group offers a high performance culture that attracts the best talent available to deliver effective and visually superior work spanning all aspects of production and post production. They value positive people who are passionate about their work.

Benefits:

Chimney has a number of programs, both individual and team based, to reward outstanding employees. For outstanding staff there is ample opportunity for international group transfers and work placements.

Starting date:

ASAP

Applications must be recieved by October 28th 2016.

Applicants must have working visa for Australia to be considered.

How to apply:

Please submit a cover letter with a summary of your achievements, Reel and your resume to bo.thorp(at)chimneygroup.com with “Editor/Designer” in the subject line.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE OCTOBER 28, 2016

Radical Orange Post Production Internship

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A post-production internship opportunity has come available with our travel publication ANYDOKO, a start-up travel video channel run out of Sydney (Surry Hills). They create travel videos on everything surrounding a destination, from food to sights and much more. Check them out below:

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They are looking for 2 post-production interns to support their main editor. You would be learning along the way while they give you the following opportunities:

  • Preparing projects for the editor to edit (ingesting, syncing, selecting etc.)
  • Editing projects yourself
  • Writing photo articles and video scripts
  • Executing your own video concepts

 

The skills and commitments they are looking for are:

  • Some sort of relevant education (you can currently be at uni or film school)
  • Available 2 to 3 days a week for at least 3 Months. We find that people who are in more get to see their own projects through from start to finish. It’s a much more valuable experience if you can make some more time available.
  • You know how to use Premiere Pro (knowledge of After Effects + DaVinci are a plus)
  • You are super keen to learn and just want to create cool work. You’re the person who already creates their own work for fun.
  • You have some experience of working in a team (can be Maccas)
  • Camera Skills are a plus

 

What they can give you:

  •  The opportunity to develop and create original content which you can make your own and create from start to finish.
  • The opportunity to create an extensive portfolio of amazing looking travel work.
  • The opportunity to the learn the ins and outs with key software and to learn a lot from an experienced production team about what it takes to make high quality content
  • You will be able to use this internship for any internship requirement by your course plus we will give you a completion letter upon completion.

 

To apply send a blurb about yourself and why you would to be involved to david@radicalorange.tv please include your resume.