Looking for Post-Production Crew Members for a Professional Short Film:
Hello,
We are looking for Post-Production Crew members such as a Film Editor, Color Grader, and Sound & Music Editor.
If you are multi-talented and can do all three of them perfectly it would make it easier for us.
This would be for an English language short film with a 15-20-minutes in length.
Your Skills:
- - A keen eye for detail and a critical mind.
- - Creativity and a passionate interest in film and video editing.
- - The ability to listen to others and to work well as part of a team and closely with the director.
- - Being open minded and laid-back / easy-going.
- - A high level of self-motivation, commitment and dedication.
- - Organisational and time management skills, patience and concentration.
- - Creative visual storytelling skills & talented skills with emotional editing.
- - A talent in being able to bring across wanted creative eye for scenery, emotions and mood and tone during editing.
- - Talented improvisation, and experimental editing techniques.
- - A talented and detailed ear for sound & music editing.
- - Fast working techniques and being able to work well under time pressure.
- - Skills with VFX (Visual Effects).
- - Extraordinary and modern up to date Technical Skills.
You must have creative storytelling skills. Creative storytelling engages the viewer with your content. It brings them into your world, and creates empathy and connection to your brand or product. With creative storytelling the content creator works with you to find a unique voice and tell an impactful story.
The editor must work closely with the director in editing the film. The director has the primary responsibility for editing decisions, but the editor often has significant input in the creative decisions involved in putting together a final cut of a movie. The editor often starts work while the film is still being shot, by assembling preliminary cuts from the daily footage.
You must work or know in either:
- - DaVinci Resolve (ideally),
- - Avid Media, Sony Vegas,
- - Or potentially in Premiere Pro.
- - After Effects
Photography of the film is completed and the material is waiting to go into post-production.
It is an opportunity to get a credit on a short film and platforms such as imdband to hone your skills on real world film material.
Ideally, we'd like to receive applications from recent graduates or advanced students with specialization in film editing.
You should have free access to an editing suite/computer.
As a creative team, we aspire to create a professional piece of work, although we will be operating on a very low budget. As such, this will largely be an unpaid film project. Nevertheless, we hope to see interest by professional collaborators who are willing to give their best, learn from each other, and forge new networks.
Naturally, everyone will be credited for their work on the project and will of course receive access to the final edited film for use on their own personal/professional platforms.
The edit must be completed by 25th June.
Since all crew have worked for free, the editor should also be willing to work unpaid.
Video Material was shot in BlackmagicRaw 25fps 4.6k resolution on a S35 sensor. Color grading will be done in DaVinci after picture lock. Roundtrips between programs using xml-files or avid-files is conceivable. Delivery specs should be DCI2k resolution and 25fps.
We will show applicants rushes that we have already edited and graded so he/she can gauge the quality and feel of the film. A first impression can be obtained from the attached picture.
The editor will have great freedom in his/her choices editing this film. Overall we have shot extremely beautiful material of a great cast on original locations that will tell an engaging little crime story/drama playing in Zürich.
However, it must be added that due to severe time constraints during shooting, the coverage of the scenes is not always ideal and a couple of shots, such as the odd transition between scenes or establishing shots that we should have ideally made are missing.
This results in a few jumps here and there. The editor should find creative ways to circumnavigate these problems. The film is a diploma graduation project of an SAE film project. The intent is also to send this film to film festivals around the world.
Thanks for your attention and we are looking forward to receiving your application with relevant information regarding your experience (including ideally a showreel) and interest in the project.
Short Film: You’ll Always Have Rebecca
SUMMARY: You’ll Always Have Rebecca is a psychological drama set in the fictional world of a social escort services establishment called the Diamond and follows the experience of its popular social escort, Rebecca, as she journeys towards freedom from its unscrupulous leader, known to all as Uncle Frank. The movie is set over a 2-day period during which startling revelations are made by her mother Linda, Uncle Frank and her girlfriend Tasya, threatening to disrupt her sense of identity.
The following lists various crew members still needed, along with their main duties.
Post Production Crew We Are Looking For:
- Film Editor - To work with the director in editing the film, assembling preliminary cuts from the daily footage. To use editing software to stylize the footage, emphasizing the visual tone and atmosphere of a movie and making it look more cinematic. A film editor must creatively work with the layers of images, story, dialogue, music, pacing, as well as the actors' performances to effectively "re-imagine" and even rewrite the film to craft a cohesive whole. Video editing is the part of the visual storytelling process that allows you to change and perfect the color grading, music, lighting and pacing of your film to create the right mood for the message you're trying to send. Video editing software is an editor's most important tool.
- Color Grading - During color grading, colorists use editing software to stylize the footage—emphasizing the visual tone and atmosphere of a movie, and making it look more cinematic. Color grading can be used to make both technical and creative changes.
- Sound & Music Editor - A sound editor is a creative professional responsible for selecting and assembling sound recordings in preparation for the final sound mixing or mastering of a television program, motion picture, video game, or any production involving recorded or synthetic sound. The music editor is a type of sound editor in film or other multimedia productions responsible for compiling, editing, and syncing music during the production of a soundtrack.
- Background Recorder, Photography, Behind of Scenes Editor – Edit a creative short film of the behind of scenes in a film showing the crew work.
- Press Kit Maker – To produce an image booklet of the film containing detailed information about the project.
Please Send Us:
- - Your CV / Resume.
- - A photo of yourself.
- - A short biography of yourself.
- - A short motivation why you would like to edit the following short film.
- - Your portfolio / showcase of some films you have edited.
- - Your testimonies and certificates.
- - Please send us your past attendance at multiple film festivals before and which ones! We need to know that you have attended film festivals before.
Anyone interested should contact Aleksandra Morf:
alexmorworks@gmail.com
www.alexmorworks.com
+41 79 550 42 86
