Junior Edit Assistant (Casualty) Roath, Wales
Job description
Do you proven knowledge of the post production process? Do you have experience of running within a post-production department? Are you passionate about Drama? Ready for the opportunity to progress your career? Then this is the role for you!
Casualty is a multi award-winning drama series about the staff and patients at the Holby City Emergency Department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives whilst tackling many controversial and taboo issues. Through great writing and visual flair the show balances gritty realism with high drama to keep its millions of dedicated viewers coming back for more, on-screen and on-line, week in week out.
The successful candidate will report to the Post Production Supervisor and become a part of the Casualty Post Production team.
This is a junior level role that provides in depth on site training that will over the length of contract enable you to be able to complete the following duties: -
- Assist editors and all members of the post production team with operational support
- Guide freelancers through internal workflows, procedures and systems
- Undertake small fixes, sync pulls and edits when required
- Export media in a variety of codecs and wrappers including QTs, DPXs, AAFs and other formats
- Manage media on NEXIS Workspaces, and secure back-ups onto LTOs
- Upload to cloud based viewing systems and file transfer systems
- Ingest from a variety of card based formats
- Review Episodes from a technical and objective point of view
Our busy team are supported by the Edit Assistants and Junior Edit Assistant, who fulfil a variety of tasks within Post Production from running to assisting the other team members in all areas.
It’s really important you have the necessary skills we’re looking for. Can you demonstrate:
- Experience of working in a Post Production Department as a Post Production Runner
- Knowledge of Avid Media Composer
- Knowledge of the Post Production techniques
- Knowledge of the Industry Standard Software
- Experience and knowledge of variety of card based formats, archive files or legacy tape based media
- Experience of working in a fast paced environment
- Knowledge and passion for Continuing Drama, especially Casualty
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.
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We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
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Package Description
For this role / Ar gyfer y swydd yma:
Welsh language skills are not necessary / Nid yw sgiliau yn yr iaith Gymraeg yn angenrheidiol
Length of contract – 12 Month FTC / Attachment
Band - B
Location - BBC Roath Lock Studios
**Please note that this is a standard Studios Production contract and potentially can involve up to 55 hours per week **
We are really proud to share that we are a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and so if you require any reasonable adjustments in order to apply please do contact us on [email protected] with ref: BBC/TP/224227/66942 in the subject.
We advertise all our roles on Evenbreak, the specialist job board for disabled candidates.
BBC Studios is committed to having a diverse range of skills, experience and talent working on our programmes, and as such we’re keen for applicants from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply, to ensure we are representative of the audiences we serve.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
- Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
- Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
