About This Role
This role involves developing compelling video material to help clients tell impactful and cohesive stories, specifically for a Department of War (DoW) agency. As a member of the creative team, you will work in a highly visible, fast-paced, time-sensitive environment, engaging with a wide variety of DoW issues to create compelling messages and video stories.
Responsibilities
- Provide videography support for approximately sixteen (16) events annually
- Produce and edit all national broadcast quality level videos as well as DVD quality for the organization to include documentaries, human-interest features, news minutes, commercials, sizzle reels, narratives, short-form social media videos, and other promotional and advanced storytelling content
- Design and produce national industry-level motion design graphics and illustrations for a variety of video products to include commercials, sizzle reels, social media, films, documentaries, and other promotional and storytelling products
- Develop strategy and tactical execution for video production requests
- Execute all pre-production, production, and postproduction needs for each project
- Pre-production: Develop all scripting, storyboarding, design and logistics – including location and schedule for each video
- Production: Provide setup for all video shoots, including all audio-visual needs – capturing all footage and b-roll
- Experience working to deliver high quality audio, including troubleshooting on the fly is highly desired
- Postproduction: Includes all editing (rough cut, fine cut and final cut) along with voice over, music, animations and graphics
- Prepare all videos for their final files – including MP4, MPEG, Windows Media, Real Media, and raw AVI
- Catalog and tag all videos and maintain an organized database of all b-roll/final files that are easily accessible
- Assist with art direction and editing
- Some travel may be required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in fine arts, communications, graphic design, or animation OR three (3) years related experience in the organizing, writing, storyboarding, shooting, editing, lighting, and producing audio visual projects, podcasts, and slide shows with sound accompaniments
- Must be a US Citizen
- Minimum Secret clearance required OR must be eligible to apply and be granted interim DoD interim clearance prior to employment
- Experience in the organizing, writing, storyboarding, shooting, editing, lighting, and producing audio visual projects, podcasts, and slide shows with sound accompaniments with a knowledge of the equipment, techniques, and processes of photography, lighting techniques, and digital reproduction techniques
- Requires a working knowledge of Nonlinear Editing Systems, Adobe Creative Cloud Production Premium, Microsoft Office Professional, AVS Video Converter, and Snagit10 screen capture software
