London Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Production Title: Branded Vox Pop style Shoot

Job Description: Casting directors are now castin models to work on scenes filming in Sandwich, Kent Town  from Wednesday, June 8th. 

Roles:

• 1 x Female, playing age 60+
• 1 x Stylish ‘yummy mummy’ type age 35-45
• 1 x Younger guy for teenage role 18-25
• 1 x Male ‘local business owner’
•  1 x Young couple 25-35
• To take part in a debate about food preferences

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: Pay is £300

Company Selling Points

✓ Rapidly growing ‘hybrid events’ industry after Covid, livestreams, AR/VR

✓ Had first mover advantage in online and hybrid events

✓ The company is doubling revenue year or year, due to strong performance

✓ Clients include large corporates in London, expanded to Europe, sometimes US

✓ Progression, pay rises and bonuses available for strong performers

✓ Excellent retention, the leadership team will listen to your

✓ They are very thorough, limited mistakes at events so clients keep coming back; very good at adapting to client needs

✓ Building their own technology offering, plan for a US office

Company Overview:

Live streaming events company based in London, delivering virtual, hybrid and in-person events for large companies. Their services include bespoke events, content creation, design, live streaming, experiential, filming events, photography and virtual/augmented reality. Clients including Uber, PA Consulting, Autodesk, Dow Jones – currently a team of 11 plus freelancers.

Job Description

Lead the creative vision across a variety of projects, be involved in all aspects of productions, from storyboarding to managing logistics. Report to the co-founders and closely collaborate with the Head of Production. Work with our in-house video production team to deliver high-quality video projects to clients.

Strategy

● Collaborate with co-founders and event production team to provide best in-class creative for clients

● Work on creative assignments for Live Streaming, Broadcast and Filming solutions and virtual, hybrid, and in-person events to deliver a high quality creative product

● Take each project from ideation to final delivery

Leadership

● Facilitate and attend team and client meetings

● Coordinate personal and team workloads from PM system Monday.com

● Work with internal team of event producers, project managers, designers and video producers, confidently communicating creative vision

Clients

● Support sales at client meetings, to understand requirements

● Build strong relationships with our clients, understand their needs and future event schedule, resulting in quality delivery and recurring business

● Client facing, responsive to clients when required

Creative

● Own the creative for a variety of video and event projects, able to jump into other projects (graphic design, animation) when required

● Create moodboards, storyboards and creative briefs

● Pitch creative concepts to stakeholders both internal and external

Delivery

● Provide solutions for any complex technical or personnel challenge on events

● Arrange logistics for projects, sourcing filming locations, event venues, production staff and talent

● Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion

● Ability to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully

● Hands-on location and on-site management

Best Practices

● Develop internal process and best practice guidelines

● Keep up to date with developments in the industry and share internally.

Experience requirements

● 3-5 years of experience in a Creative Producing role

● Interest in AR, VR, Metaverse and keeping up with emerging digital technologies

● Ability to communicate ideas clearly and deliver creative pitches, including creating presentation decks and supporting materials

● Able to travel to studios, offices (mostly London), or venues for site visits or produce studio days for hybrid/in-person events

Personality fit

● Active communicator, to coordinate others and update all stakeholders

● Extremely thorough to make sure no ball is dropped

● Builds very strong relationships with internals and clients

● Work in high-pressure situations with a cool head

● Creative and curious to solve challenges and learn about new industry trends

● Happy doing work from strategic discussions to hands on setup as required.

● Motivated and keen to suggest ideas

Location: London (almost all events are in the London area)

Office in Shoreditch, flexible work from home on non-shoot days.

Salary: £30,000 – £40,000 depending on experience

Hours

Majority of events in core business hours, but the role will require 2-4 evenings work per month and 3-4 weekends of work per year.

Benefits

• Bonus scheme: up to 10% of salary

• Salary reviewed twice a year

• Regular professional development opportunities

• Regular team socials (virtually and, in-person as guidelines allow)

• Hybrid in-person/remote set-up

• Travel / Season Loans

• Home office spending allowance

• Friday lunch allowance

Start Date: Immediately

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About Hyve

We believe that when people come together, powerful things happen. Hyve Group plc connects global industry communities through unmissable events, online networking platforms, and hyper-productive meeting programmes.

Our decades of experience put us at the heart of industries, and we are committed to using our influence to shape innovation and drive progress across our customer communities.

Our market-leading portfolio of global brands includes Shoptalk, Spring Fair, Africa Oil Week, Bett, Mining Indaba, and Retail Meetup.

#LifeAtHyve

At Hyve, we are driven by our values: brilliant work, fresh thinking, rich connections, and collective buzz. In practice, this means we value quality, work with passion, celebrate uniqueness, and are our best when we work together.

We value a diverse team and are committed to employing individuals from all backgrounds and creating a culture based around belonging.

Our hybrid working model ensures we respect our peoples’ work/life balance.

Human connections are our speciality, and we offer a jam-packed calendar of social events, inclusion workshops, and professional development opportunities to make sure #LifeAtHyve is always fulfilling and exciting.

JOB PURPOSE

We are looking for a creative individual with excellent copywriting skills to work within the Creative team across our retail and fashion B2B events. These events include:

Spring and Autumn Fair – this is the definitive destination for gift and

home inspiration for retail trade, bringing the British, European, and

international markets together to the UK. Taking place at the NEC, in

Birmingham in February and September.

Pure London and Scoop – Pure London is the leading fashion trade event in the UK, taking place at London’s Olympia twice a year. Scoop is an exclusive edit of sought-after fashion collections and emerging international designers, which takes place in London twice a year.

Glee – is the UK’s leading garden and outdoor living trade show, taking place in June at the NEC in Birmingham.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Copywriting that is in-line with brand tone-of-voice and adapted across marketing channels including emails, web landing pages, adverts, social media and brochures.
• Delivering relevant, customer-focused communications with emotion and purpose that resonate, build long-term relationships and drive responses that meet brand objectives.
• Manage email copy and content working with the wider Marketing and Automation teams to ensure messaging is engaging, hits KPIs and compelling imagery is provided on schedule.
• Working with the Digital team to provide content briefs including copy, imagery and templates with consideration to the online customer journey and mobile user.
• Prioritise the delivery of briefs, designed assets, emails, marketing communications within delivery dates and requirements across each brand portfolio.
• Assist in the briefing of graphics and printed collateral with external designers and printers, managing projects through to completion.
• Understand, challenge and translate communication briefs into marketing communications that form the campaign plan.
• Using Photoshop/InDesign/Illustrator, assist in the creation of social media graphics, GIFs, digital banners, flyers, print adverts…etc.
• Support the Senior Creative Manager with ad-hoc design requirements, conducting interviews with clients at the events, general administrative support.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Experience working within a creative/content, marketing or design agency or in-house as a content creator, marketing executive or content editor.
• Copywriting skills with a portfolio of previous written work across a variety of channels.
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt tone, messaging and content to different audiences and their behaviour to attract, engage and influence.
• Demonstrate understanding of the specific communication and design requirements for different channels.
• Excellent project management skills and meeting deadlines.
• Ability to interpret marketing briefs and brand guidelines.
• Photoshop skills a must with a portfolio of previous work that demonstrates technical skills and design handwriting.
• InDesign (Desirable).
• Illustrator (Desirable).
• An understanding of digital channels, best practice UX and the mobile customer journey.
• Working in a demanding, fast paced environment, on multiple projects often at different stages, where the ability to prioritise is critical to success.
• A demonstratable passion for and an eye for design and strong, practical art-working skills.
• Experience of working closely with digital and marketing teams.

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Spring & Autumn Fair

Production Title: Alcohol Commercial 

Job Description: Casting directors are now dancers to work on scenes filming in London.

Roles: Duo dancers

• Must be over 25yrs

Covid Test: No

Rate: Pay is $$

Production Title: Paid Commercial Shoot

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting models to work on scenes filming in London. 

Roles: Couples

• Aged 25-55yrs to be supporting artists in a commercial. 

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: Pay is $$

Casting Call Notice

We’re looking for Gen Z couples to feature in an ad. Must be comfortable kissing on camera.

Casting next Tuesday 17th in central london.

Paid roles

CASTING CALL NOTICE

Casting Call for Drag Queens & Male Dancers happy to wear heels/drag 
Must be able to duck walk & death drop
For C4 Pride Promo
Paid
Shoot – 27th May in London
Casting – Thursday AM

Jessica Ronane Casting Call Notice

Casting Directors: Francie Maisler (Dont look Up, Little Women) and Jessica Ronane (Emma, The Kid Who Would be King) are casting a role for a major feature film which will shoot in the United Kingdom between August and December 2022.

All applicants must be eligible to work here in the United Kingdom.

We are looking for an actor to play the adult double of lead male role, Robert Pattinson. This should be skilled/trained actor,but face and lines will not appear on screen.

This role will work for the run of the schedule and act opposite our lead actor.

We need an actor with resemblance to our lead actor in height, body type and movement (Our lead actor’s details below).

ACTOR DOUBLE – Male, mid 30’s, 6.1″. Chest 39.5, Waist 33.5. 

CASTING CALL NOTICE

Working Parents wanted for Filming for Linked in.

Looking for 3 working parents for an online discussion for Linked in.

This will appear on Facebook/linked in as a 2 minute table top discussion programme.

We are looking for mums and dads from different industries/backgrounds who have prioritised parenthood/championed flexible working to some degree.

Maybe you took an extended career break,transitioned to fewer working days, changed careers to be more flexible or just worked from home more often.

Shoot date: Wednesday 25th May
Location: London studio

CASTING CALL NOTICE FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS

Side Hustlers/Small businesses wanted for Filming

Looking for people for an online discussion small group for Linked in.

Have you previously worked in a conventional career and then gone out alone and started a small business?

We are looking for small business owners with a unique company. From creative /crafty to techy to purpose driven.

This will appear on Facebook/linked in as a 2 minute table top discussion programme.

Shoot date: Wednesday 25th May
(Half day for filming )

Location: London studio
Incentive: £450