Volunteer: Demo Review and Live Feedback for Emerging Graphic Designers

About the role

This is a volunteer opportunity provided by Taproot Foundation, a nonprofit creating social change through pro bono connections. We are looking for an experienced professional to mentor our emerging filmmakers.

Responsibilities

• Review a batch of 6 to 10 design demo submissions (social graphics and newsletter layouts)
• Write specific notes on layout, type, color, and hierarchy for each
• Join one live feedback session to react to demos in real time with the designers
• Offer light guidance on a small community design project or two
• Flag standout designers who are ready for real Ineffable Films projects

Requirements

The ideal volunteer is a working or experienced professional in this craft who remembers what it felt like to be starting out and wants to give the kind of honest, encouraging feedback they wish they had received. This project should take 12 to 20 hours to complete. We are hopeful that our volunteer partner will share 2 to 5 hours of their time per week.

Qualifications

We are hopeful that our volunteer partner will share 2 to 5 hours of their time per week. Ineffable Films exists to open the film industry to emerging and underserved storytellers, the people who rarely get a foot in the door, let alone a mentor who will look at their work and tell them the truth kindly. Great design is how a small nonprofit gets people to stop scrolling, and a designer who has never had real feedback cannot grow past their defaults. This project directly serves emerging graphic designers and student artists: students, first-generation filmmakers, and self-taught artists who found us on their own because they were hungry to grow. Many have never had a working professional respond to their work at all.

Skills

A working or experienced professional in this craft who remembers what it felt like to be starting out and wants to give the kind of honest, encouraging feedback they wish they had received.

Benefits

A few hours of your feedback does not just polish one demo. It tells a young filmmaker that their voice is worth investing in, it gives them a credit and a collaborator, and it can be the spark that turns a nervous first submission into a festival film. That is how stories travel, and how the people telling them finally get seen.

Pay

No compensation is offered for this volunteer opportunity.

Schedule

The project should take 12 to 20 hours to complete. We are hopeful that our volunteer partner will share 2 to 5 hours of their time per week.