FiveThirtyEight is looking for a short-term Video Producer to affix our staff full-time from mid-July via 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 offers our viewers a deeper, data-informed understanding of American politics. They will even be answerable for enhancing 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 in, so the video producer should be open to working a shifted schedule at occasions, which can embrace 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. It is a U.S.-based place, and work could be performed remotely or out of our New York Metropolis workplace. Candidates ought to have the ability to work 40 hours every week on an Jap time zone schedule. To use, please ship a résumé and two clips by Sunday, June 19 to [email protected] with the topic line “Momentary Video Producer.”
Fundamental {Qualifications}:
- Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Professional
- Skill to script and storyboard
- Expertise working in a fast-paced setting on a decent deadline
- Expertise with multi-cam enhancing
- Skill to speak about visible model and supply considerate, constructive suggestions to animators and different collaborators
- Strong 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
- Skill to gentle a studio shoot
- Expertise filming with a Canon C300
- Expertise directing a distant movie crew
- Expertise enhancing a multi-guest podcast video
