Chocolate Films is a video production company with bases in London, Glasgow and Berlin. We produce video content for museums, art galleries, charities and corporate clients. We are currently looking for a creative and dedicated FCPX video editor to join our London team, cutting promos, events, documentaries, conference films and more.

Chocolate Films is a values-led company, run as a social enterprise. We use profits from the video production services to support a wide range of filmmaking experiences for children, young people and vulnerable adults, which all members of staff participate in.

This role has two key responsibilities

Post-Production for Chocolate Films (approx 80% of time)

• Editing a range of video content, from briefs, storyboards or scripts.
• Making amends to projects according to internal and client amends.
• Quality control of video projects
• Inputting into creative briefs and treatments
• Organising and managing hard drives.
• Uploading and optimising video for online, including transcription and production of SRT files etc.
• Archiving content on LT07 drives.
• Liaising with the Glasgow office to ensure that they have a manageable workload and are able to hit deadlines.
• Staying up to date on edit fashion/trends
• Ensuring that time allowances are adhered to and monitored

Digital Video Workshops Responsibilities

• Focusing on the post-production side of the digital video workshops
• Facilitating post-production workshops
• Maintaining the workshops post-production equipment, and ensuring that they are cleared down.
• Monitoring and checking on the edits of the workshop films to ensure that they are of the required standard, within the allocated time and branded correctly.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Excellent Final Cut Pro X editing skills across a range of content, from promos, documentaries, event films and more
• Colour correction and sound mixing

DESIRED SKILLS

• Experience of working with young people
• Motion Graphics, using Motion or After Effects

TERMS

• Salary Range £24,500 - £28,500 pa depending on experience (reviewed annually)
• Regular working week Monday to Friday 9:00 - 18:00. Evening and weekend work will be necessary depending on projects and workloads. Time off in lieu for extra hours is offered.
• Holidays - 20 weeks per year plus UK bank holidays
• Employment is contingent on a clean extended DBS check and clean driving license.
• Duration: An initial 6 month probationary period with a view to a longer-term position.
• Role to start ASAP

To apply, please send the following:
• Covering Letter
• CV
• A link to a short factual film that you have edited

Applications will not be considered without the above three included.