Edit Assistant

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Who We Are…

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From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role

The Edit Assistant will join the Amazing World of Gumball production team on a fixed-term-contract from 24th April 2023 – 24th June 2024 and your main area of responsibility will be animatics. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from experienced animation editors and the role will be working 5 days per week from the studios in Farringdon.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Assembling animatics in edit while also assisting the editors from assembly through to lock with final VO, working closely with the production team.
• Work closely with third party studios to ensure a smooth cross-studio edit pipeline is followed.
• Help to ensure naming and filing conventions are followed into and out of edit and that files are neatly imported into timelines to ensure the smooth running of the department.
• Be responsible for maintaining a walla library, ensuring it is used effectively by the edit team.
• You may be required to work on other edit tasks such as shot numbering, shot breakouts, finecuts, online prep etc
• You will need to manage your time well to hit deadlines.
• Keep the team alerted to any issues that may cause delivery delays and communicate clearly and efficiently with all other departments inside and outside the studio.

Experience and Qualifications

• Comfortable working with senior editors, directors and the production team.
• Highly organised, willing to learn and good at managing tasks
• Keen eye for detail and have a passion for animation and editing.
• Experience working with Premier preferable

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done.  We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits…

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.