Job Title: Studio Trainee (full time)
Location: EC1 & WC2N
Reporting to: Head of Production
Hours of work: Mon- Fri 08:30 - 17:30
Remuneration: £17,000 per annum (+£500 per quarter increments)
Holiday: 25 days per annum (+1 extra each year)
Start date: Tuesday 27th August 2019

Essential requirements:
- Keen, enthusiastic, capable (can-do attitude) and willingness to learn
- Punctual and reliable - most events are live
- Warm, confident, welcoming with diplomatic skills. It is of critical importance to the end client that all speakers (often Barristers and Accountants) are treated with the utmost courtesy and professionalism.
- Basic technical skills. (We build our own encoders, edits and service equipment).

Basic skills expected (white balancing a camera, remove a cough in the edit) advanced training will be provided. The role involves some heavy lifting moving tripods and equipment.

Key role functions:
Live Studio Webinars:
- Wiring of participant's microphones
- Filming on 4K camcorders
- Recording and Live mixing on Newtek's Tricaster 8000 vision mixer
- Live encoding
- Production control of streaming to all devices
- Running webcast software to synchronize PowerPoint presentations
- Monitoring of the web-facing output

Recorded events
- Editing using Adobe CC
- Uploading, data transfer & encoding

There are also various filming and potential live streams on location. At the manager's discretion, you may also be involved in:
- Studio bookings and liaison
- Studio tours
- Maintenance, Studio upkeep and housekeeping
- Encoding - general
- Editing and post-production
- Statistical reporting, analysis and quality checking

Back-up and archiving of all recordings on Blu-ray.

Interests required:
- Adobe CC editing skills in Premiere, Encoder, After Effects & Photoshop
- Understand the components of a PC and able to update RAM, a HDD, graphics card etc
- Encode formats (bit rate, codec etc)
- Video cameras & photography.
- Audio editing.