Temporary Video Producer Associate

About the Role

The Temporary Video Producer Assistant collaborates with the video team, instructional designers, and graphic designers to create video content for educational online programs.

Responsibilities

• Studio and on-location production: helping to organize the studios before and after any recording session.
• Setting up lights, cameras, and sound equipment for recording sessions as assigned by the Video Production Manager and Video Producer Associate.
• Act as camera operator, sound mixer, gaffer, or grip during recording sessions as assigned.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose equipment problems and perform regular maintenance.
• Ingest, log, sync, and organize media.
• Post-production project setup, editing, on-lining, archiving video, delivery, and managing digital assets.
• Assemble footage into string outs, rough, fine, and final cuts while maintaining professional standards.
• Receive and implement notes regarding the editing of projects based on input from producers, instructional designers, and faculty members.
• Perform initial color correction passes and preliminary sound sweetening.
• Ensure quality control and consistency on final deliverables, utilizing and recommending advanced technologies, workflows, and post-production methodologies.
• Archive and maintain records of master files, ensuring all footage is secured and backed up.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Film, Communication, or a similar field is required.
• At least 2-3 years of prior studio or on-set experience preferred.

About Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private, international research university with distinctive academics, diversely unique offerings, and an undeniable spirit. Located in the geographic heart of New York State, Syracuse University offers over 200 majors, 100 minors, and 200 advanced degree programs across 13 schools and colleges. The University serves over 15,000 undergraduates and 6,000 graduate students, with a global alumni network of over a quarter-million in 160 countries.

About the Syracuse Area

Syracuse is a medium-sized city in the geographic center of New York State, approximately 250 miles northwest of New York City. The metro-area population totals approximately 500,000, offering a low cost of living and a variety of social, cultural, and recreational options, including parks, museums, festivals, professional regional theater, and premier shopping venues. The region provides seasonal attractions such as water skiing, snow skiing, hiking in the Adirondacks, touring historic sites, visiting wineries along the Finger Lakes, and biking on trails along the Erie Canal.