Short Film Commercial Producer Needed

Job Position(s): Producer

Goal Overview To oversee and manage the color workflow on assigned projects. This involves the management of the elements, schedules, budgets, workflow, client relationships & internal personnel.

Main Duties

Artist

• Drive artist schedule and manage Colorist session time.

• Face to face interaction with Colorists regarding sessions, new specs, and clientele.

• Coordinate Colorist time off with the color production team.

Clients

• Act as the main point of contact for clients, via e-mail, phone, in-person meetings.

• Maintain effective communication with clients regarding deliverables and job status, including billing updates when workflow changes; work with coordinators to meet client needs.

• E-mail prep guide, contact clients for specs and update all Work Order specs.

Bidding and Budget

• Gather all key information (boards, rough-cuts, source material, schedule, & delivery specifications, etc.) necessary to bid & manage project.

• Regularly communicate budget status to clients.

• Establishing a project workflow with the HoP to fit the clients’ budget.

Preparations for Projects/Sessions

• Receive a PO for project and/or session prior to its commencement.

• Have credit card authorization filled out and submitted to accounting prior to session for any COD clients.

• Obtain all project details, source, delivery and shipping specs prior to the session.

• Ensure all specs fit within the clients booked time and will meet their delivery deadlines.

• Work with HoP to find alternative workflows to accommodate the clients’ delivery deadlines.

• Ensure clients are aware of how and where to deliver elements

• Make sure all necessary elements and prep are acquired prior to session allowing for adequate prep time.

• Organize, with the production coordinator, the set-up of all film scanning projects.

• Verify project is built and setup prior to session start / client arrival. Arrive a half-hour before first sup’d session when needed, double checking complicated setups/laydowns, etc.

• Communicate weekend and holiday staffing needs to the production team.

• Coordinate and schedule meetings with internal team on complex projects.

Execution of Job

• Create Work Orders for all billable, non-billable, testing and pro bono work. No work is to be done without a Work Order, no exceptions.

• Generate work orders based on the approved work order template.

• Ensure that the production team is aware of any special set-up needs per project.[polycom, food orders…]

• Greet and escort clients to the bays upon arrival.

• Check in on artists, clients, color assists, and client services on a regular basis to make sure the session is well supported. The client should feel the producer’s presence and know that you are taking care of them.

• Organize, supervise and monitor the progress of a session to make sure it is on schedule.

• Make the production coordinator team aware of any known pick up shots coming their way

• Update WO and the production coordinator team with any spec changes.

• Communicate any machine downtime to production, operations, engineering, and clients and arrange for other solutions to keep the session on schedule.

• Keep track of all elements pertaining to the projects being produced.

• Supervise evening and weekend sessions (if required) or delegate them to evening coordinator with a proper hand off sheet with all details clearly specified (contacts, renders, duplication, shipping, io, ftp, etc. information).

Final Delivery

• Coordinate the delivery of all required elements by the desired deadline date with the client/vault.

• Email (via vault or yourself) the client all proper tracking information including contents and expected delivery date/time to the requested location.

• Prepare & send all elements (credit lists, still frames, completed commercials), to our PR division for proper publicity.

• Follow up with client after session to ensure all elements were received timely and accurately.

Final Billing

• Work with accounting to make sure the billing is properly done in accordance to the client’s needs.

• Make sure all Work Orders are reviewed and actualized by yourself (with applicable accounting information: i.e. rates, billable hours, etc)

What You Bring

• Color Correction Production experience

• Post scheduling experience

• Xytech and/ or post production scheduling software experience

• Basic knowledge of offline editing workflows including but not limited to the understanding of EDL, XML, and AAF.

• Basic knowledge of Finishing, VFX, and Sound workflow a plus

• Knowledge of digital capture cameras and files

• Knowledge of file based workflow

About the Company:

Company 3  / Method Studios provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more.