Start Date : September 2024

Hello hello!

We're Gorilla Gorilla! An independent film and animation studio that helps brands tell powerful stories of change. We're on the hunt for an ambitious Post Production Assistant to act as a support to our team of producers.

Office / homeworking

This role will be full time at our offices (we're on City Road near to Angel / Old St / Farringdon). We support home-working with number of office days determined on a role-by-role basis with a current expectation of a minimum of 3 office days per week for all team members.

The Role

The Post Production Assistant is an important role at Gorilla Gorilla. We work mainly with freelance editors, so the PPA acts as a consistent backstop for our producers managing the edit suite, shoot drives, and editor bookings as well as taking on simple edit duties such as audio laybacks, b-roll cataloguing and subtitling.

Your primary responsibilities will be administrative. We want a detail-oriented person who the producers can trust to schedule and manage all of the Post Production needs of the business. We see the role expanding to be either a Post Producer, or Facilities Manager for Post.

In addition, for the right candidate, there may be the opportunity to develop creative editing skills as a junior editor - some of our smaller jobs have been edited by the previous PPA in full, and we often require edit amends to larger jobs.

We are subject expert filmmakers who operate across employee brand, diversity and inclusion and sustainability and we aim to make films that are smart, brave and curious...

...just like us.

Day-to-day

• Manage turnover of shoot drives for live action shoots
• Transcode rushes and prep edits
• Prep edit suite
• Book and schedule freelance editors
• Simple Online Edit tasks - subtitling, audio layback.
• Quality control - We want a proactive and detailed eye on all deliveries.
• Creating and delivering different aspect ratios
• B-roll edits and cataloguing footage and stills
• Archive and server management

Nice to have/Occasional

• Occasional help on set.
• Some creative edits
• Research and technical help to the creative department.

Key Skills & Responsibilities

• Some skills across the full Adobe Suite
• Expert use of Adobe Premiere
• Familiarity with Adobe After Effects
• Ability to use Microsoft Office suite.
• Punctual, detail oriented and able to take responsibility for multiple projects at the same time.

Why it's important to us

It's a pivotal role in supporting the smooth running of both edits and shoots.

How you'll make us feel

• We can trust you.
• You bring order and efficiency
• You have our backs

How you'll make us look

• Impressive
• Organised
• Clear

Your personality

• Lively and engaging with a responsible and positive outlook.
• A clear focus on producing high quality projects, regardless of the subject matter.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Able to critically assess their own results and performance to enable continued growth.
• Happy to take responsibility, keen to take feedback or criticism and build on it.
• A skilled and empathic communicator, able to negotiate a fast moving environment with grace.
• Well-presented, business-like, open, friendly and sociable.
• A team player, able to work within a range of team situations.

Background

• Is likely to have worked in-house at a large agency or post facility as MCR operator, Junior Editor or Post Production Assistant, but is keen to move to a smaller company to take on more (and broader) responsibility.
• Or has worked in a similar role for 2 years.
• Or is a freelance post professional with a wide skill base used to handling multiple clients/projects at once.

And finally, what can Gorilla Gorilla! offer you?

The opportunity to join a growing creative business at an exciting time that offers the chance to learn and develop as part of a supportive, friendly team who love what they do. We also offer a range of additional benefits including regular paid-for team lunches and nights out (we love to eat and are a bit obsessive about food!), a personal wellbeing allowance, a profit share scheme, company pension, and employee share scheme.