FiveThirtyEight is in search of a non permanent Video Producer to affix our staff full-time from mid-July by means of mid-November. This individual 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 collection that provides our viewers a deeper, data-informed understanding of American politics. They may also be accountable for enhancing the video model of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, which comes out twice every week. Through the primaries, the second weekly episode is commonly filmed on Tuesday nights after election outcomes are available in, so the video producer have to be open to working a shifted schedule at occasions, which is able to embody some late nights.
The Video Producer will work intently with the remainder of FiveThirtyEight’s video staff; FiveThirtyEight reporters, visible journalists and duplicate editors; and the graphics staff from ABC Information Digital. This can be a U.S.-based place, and work may be performed remotely or out of our New York Metropolis workplace. Candidates ought to be capable of 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
- Capability to script and storyboard
- Expertise working in a fast-paced surroundings on a good deadline
- Expertise with multi-cam enhancing
- Capability to speak about visible type and supply considerate, constructive suggestions to animators and different collaborators
- Strong information judgment
- Normal information of and curiosity in U.S. electoral politics
- An curiosity in knowledge journalism
Most well-liked {Qualifications}:
- Expertise working in a newsroom
- Proficiency in Adobe After Results and Illustrator
- Capability to gentle a studio shoot
- Expertise filming with a Canon C300
- Expertise directing a distant movie crew
- Expertise enhancing a multi-guest podcast video