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Start Date: ASAP 3 Months Fixed Term Contract initially  Gas Ferry Road Studio, Bristol/Remote Working  Come make games at Aardman! We’re assembling a world-class team to build visually unique games, driven by inventive mechanics and compelling characters, and imbued with the humour, love and craftsmanship you’d expect from Aardman. We’re working on an incredible new IP with a major publisher, and we’re looking for like-minded people who want to help us define what it means for Aardman to make games. People who are excited about having ownership and creative influence, who value transparency, and who want to build games that will be remembered. We are in the unique position of building a new games studio within an Oscar winning creative company. We’re employee owned, independent, and we live by our values: creative integrity, creative excellence, humour, openness, and collaboration. Core Responsibilities: • Creating amazing looking real time FX with UE4/UE5 •...

Ingest Operators required Urgently need Ingest Operators for high profile international broadcaster    The Ingest Operator is responsible for the preparation, routing, ingesting, and monitoring of incoming feeds required for recording content for use on all platforms. Duties will also include QC’ing processing and sharing content. Preparing meta data and audio configurations. Managing bookings of Live and non-Live feeds, whilst working closely with production and other departments. Key responsibilities: Responsible for the QC’ing of entertainment and sports content sent from distribution or recorded internally. Ensuring all ingested material is ingested in a timely fashion. Escalating to relevant departments when material fails QC by not adhering to broadcast standards. Managing the transfer of recorded assets to Cloud and Archive. Routing sources for recordings using BNCS panel. Following ‘Fast Track’ workflows to allow assets to be made ready for broadcast...

Our leading broadcaster and telecoms client requires a  Platform Control Operational Lead  to provide on-site operational management of the client’s broadcast platforms and provide Incident Management on all major platform incidents. With a good knowledge of broadcast infrastructure and a understanding of established operational processes the Operational Lead has to have the confidence to act decisively to provide first line fixes, escalate the incident and carry out incident management activities. They will provide effective first line support to operational teams at a number of sites when incidents occur, ensuring that cause and impact are followed up in the first instance and accurately documented to allow any required further follow up. They should be able to prioritise and escalate major incidents based on potential customer/client impact. The Operational Lead will support the Platform Control Team Managers through ensuring established operational processes and...

GFX Editor Position Summary: At this leading international broadcaster working within Post Production, the freelance GFX Editor is primarily responsible for providing on demand support to the French GFX workflow, as required for transmission critical content for French speaking territories. In brief to provide After Effects French language customisation so French speaking is a real bonus. This role requires advanced motion graphics and editing skills utilizing Adobe After Effects and Avid Media Composer. A thorough understanding of broadcast and technical Post Production workflows is essential. The GFX Editor will support the Technical Operations Supervisor in providing high levels of customer service to the various channel teams, commissioning teams for original content as well as promo teams and external clients.   They may occasionally be required to work on simple compliance projects as well as working on complex GFX and language customisation projects. They will...

Transmission Controller Freelance / Contract   Salary: Competitive - Please contact us for more information Progressive global broadcaster client requires a Transmission Controller on freelance/contract basis with significant Transmission experience and ideally experience in Streaming and VOD . The Transmission Controller will be responsible for prepping and routing, maintaining the scheduled play out of multiple transmission channels in the Transmission facility. Duties will include managing schedules, identifying missing material, monitoring feeds and resolving any transmission issues. You will manage a multi-transmission pod, monitoring outgoing and return feeds and maintains the on-air presence of the channels at all times. You will be responsible for manual transmission control and maintaining on-air presence  control during live broadcasts including sports, entertainment and global simulcasts. TX Controllers generally work 12.5 hour shifts, averaging 40 hours...

Start Date: Early January 2022 Contract: 12 Months Fixed Term Contract (Some flexibility maybe required, as this a Maternity Cover Contract) Full Time: 37.5 hours per week, Mondays – Fridays (some flexibility - see advert below) Salary: depending on experience Location: Gas Ferry Road Studio, Bristol + Remote Working This is a Sales role like no other… not only do you get to work with Aardman’s lovable characters such as; Morph Shaun the Sheep & Wallace and Gromit but you will get to do it on a global scale. You will be licensing Aardman series, as well as a boutique number of third party series too, allowing for a quality and diverse catalogue of content to work with. In this role, you will be working with the Director of Distribution and wider sales team to exploit Aardman Animations catalogue of both new and existing IP, alongside quality third party produced series, across TV and digital platforms. We’re looking for a strong Sales Manager with a good knowledge of...

Start Date: Early January 2022 Contract: 12 Months Fixed Term Contract (Some flexibility maybe required, as this a Maternity Cover Contract) Full Time: 37.5 hours per week, Mondays – Fridays (some flexibility - see advert below) Salary: depending on experience Location: Gas Ferry Road Studio, Bristol + Remote Working The Studio Publicist is the primary point of contact for any PR & media relating to the Aardman Studio. This is a unique role that spans all the different areas of the Aardman business including; corporate, film and TV, brand and IP, Creative Services (advertising, interactive, games) international distribution and licensing. The Studio Publicist helps devise and implement the company’s corporate and B2B press strategy with a view to protecting and enhancing the studios public image and helping to drive new business. We’re looking for a Publicist with a minimum of 3 years’ experience from working either in-house, freelance or through an agency. Candidates...

VOD Operations Coordinator  Working within VOD Operations, this role at our high profile, international broadcaster will have responsibility for coordinating content fulfilment to external VOD platforms and direct to consumer platforms, whilst maintaining consistent communication between internal business partners and external clients. This will involve tracking and submitting content for transcoding and delivery to clients, using a variety of different systems. The ideal candidate should be technically savvy with a good understanding of file formats and file based workflows and a clear grasp of metadata and XML. This role acts as a point of contact for external VOD partners so a high level of communication is required to ensure optimum service is provided to affiliates. Key Responsibilities: • Ordering and tracking material for VOD clients. • Liaising with internal areas such as VOD Scheduling, Digital Media, Media Technology and other departments...

ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for Freelance Edit Assistants to support the BT Sport Post-Production facility in Stratford, London. Some of the duties will include: Edit and Voice Over suite support Processing file transcodes using various applications Upkeep of edit, media and storage systems As part of a small team you will be required to ingest media from a variety of sources and set up and support the non-linear edit suites at BT Sport. Alongside in-depth Avid and Adobe experience, you should have a good knowledge of broadcast workflows, file formats and ingest applications.The Assistant will be required to work at high levels of technical complexity, under programme and operational pressures. MAIN DUTIES Clear understanding of the fundamentals of file-based editing workflows Help guide editors, operators and production staff through complex operational scenarios and workflows Capable of ingesting media from a...

About the Role An exciting opportunity to plan, coordinate and manage studio production at the BT Sport broadcast facility in Stratford, East London. In this role you will oversee the use of technical resources to deliver HD and 4K production from four broadcast studios and ten production galleries. You will work closely with BT Sport and a range of other production partners.  Main Duties / Key Responsibilities In this role you will be responsible for the planning, coordination and technical delivery of studio production and ‘remote’ production for BT Sport. You will use your comprehensive understanding of broadcast technology to provide technical solutions to meet the needs of each project Work closely with the managed service support team to book equipment and resources, address any logistical issues, and advise on the best deployment of freelance staff to deliver successful outcomes Responsible for the ‘safe’...