FiveThirtyEight is in search of a non permanent Video Producer to affix our staff full-time from mid-July by mid-November. This particular person will pitch, storyboard and edit movies about U.S. politics, filling an necessary function in our protection of the 2022 midterm elections.
The Video Producer will report back to and work with the Senior Video Producer to direct and edit a short-form video sequence that provides our viewers a deeper, data-informed understanding of American politics. They can even be accountable for modifying the video model of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, which comes out twice every week. In the course of the primaries, the second weekly episode is usually filmed on Tuesday nights after election outcomes are available, so the video producer should be open to working a shifted schedule at instances, which can embody some late nights.
The Video Producer will work carefully with the remainder of FiveThirtyEight’s video staff; FiveThirtyEight reporters, visible journalists and replica editors; and the graphics staff from ABC Information Digital. This can be a U.S.-based place, and work will be carried out remotely or out of our New York Metropolis workplace. Candidates ought to be capable to work 40 hours every week on an Japanese time zone schedule. To use, please ship a résumé and two clips by Sunday, June 19 to anna.rothschild@abc.com with the topic line “Momentary Video Producer.”
Fundamental {Qualifications}:
- Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Professional
- Capacity to script and storyboard
- Expertise working in a fast-paced atmosphere on a decent deadline
- Expertise with multi-cam modifying
- Capacity to speak about visible type and supply considerate, constructive suggestions to animators and different collaborators
- Stable information judgment
- Basic information of and curiosity in U.S. electoral politics
- An curiosity in information journalism
Most well-liked {Qualifications}:
- Expertise working in a newsroom
- Proficiency in Adobe After Results and Illustrator
- Capacity to gentle a studio shoot
- Expertise filming with a Canon C300
- Expertise directing a distant movie crew
- Expertise modifying a multi-guest podcast video
