Non Linear Editors at a Leading Media and Entertainment Company - Teclab Management Services Limited

Teclab Management Services Limited - Our Client, a leader in the media and entertainment Industry with branches all over the country, seeks to employ the services of:

Job Title: Non Linear Editor

Locations: Abuja, Lagos

Role Target

• Edit moving images on film, video, or other media. May edit or synchronize soundtracks with images.

Role Expectations
The successful candidate’s specific functions include:

• Verify key numbers and time codes on materials.
• Edit films and videotapes to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, to arrange films into sequences, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.
• Review footage sequence by sequence to become familiar with it before assembling it into a final product.
• Select and combine the most effective shots of each scene to form a logical and smoothly running story.
• Organize and string together raw footage into a continuous whole according to scripts or the instructions of directors and producers.
• Review assembled films or edited videotapes on screens or monitors to determine if corrections are necessary.
• Set up and operate computer editing systems, electronic titling systems, video switching equipment, and digital video effects units to produce a final product.
• Trim film segments to specified lengths and reassemble segments in sequences that present stories with maximum effect.
• Confer with producers and directors concerning layout or editing approaches needed to increase dramatic or entertainment value of productions.
• Records needed sounds or obtain them from sound effects libraries.
• Study scripts to become familiar with production concepts and requirements.
• Supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in film editing, assembling, and recording activities.
• Manipulate plot, score, sound, and graphics to make the parts into a continuous whole, working closely with people in audio, visual, music, optical, or special effects departments.
• Program computerized graphic effects.
• Piece sounds together to develop film soundtracks.
• Collaborate with music editors to select appropriate passages of music and develop production scores.
• Discuss the sound requirements of pictures with sound effects editors.
• Conduct film screenings for directors and members of production staffs.
• Estimate how long audiences watching comedies will laugh at each gag line or situation to space scenes appropriately.
• Develop post-production models.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Mass Communication or other related fields.
  Relevant 3 to 5years experience in a similar role

Personal Skills:

• Must be creative.
• Thinking Creatively - Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Application Closing Date
10th May, 2016

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their application letter and CV's to: [email protected] Applications should have very specific subject: E.g. News Editor- Abuja