Production Assistant - Los Angeles

Position: Production Assistant

Location: Los Angeles

Purpose of Job: As a Production Assistant you will assist Production Managers in the smooth running of dialogue production from casting to delivery. The Production Assistant is our team go-getter and is not afraid of any challenge. You will be in the detail of each project you support on, ensuring that you are a representation of our business as well as ensuring that preparation for each project has been completed and any potential issues highlighted to the Production Manager.

This position will be based in our studio in Los Angeles, local candidates are highly preferred!

Duties and Key Responsibilities

• Scheduling actors for auditions and recording sessions

• Building Purchase Orders for talent, directors, and other service providers

• Sending out comprehensive emails to talent and directors in preparation of auditions and sessions

• Preparing project documentation for talent and directors, including character biographies, story briefs, and scripts

• Meet & greet talent during auditions and at start of sessions

• Responsible for getting legal paperwork signed and filed properly

• Typing up directors’ notes from auditions, inputting them into Actor Database

• Assisting with script preparation and tracking, as required

• Assisting Production Managers with meet & greet of clients and aid clients throughout the day, as required

• Assisting Production Managers in keeping schedules and tracking documents up to date throughout recordings

• Assisting the Casting team with self-tapes, editing Casting clips, long-listing talent options and developing casting skills

• Preparing Non-disclosure agreements and contracts, Travel Packs for rehearsals, crowd sessions, and Performance Capture sessions Other

• Adhere to company Security, Confidentiality and Health and Safety procedures and ensure the compliance of the team

• Adhere to the company IT and HR procedures and ensure the compliance of the team

• Understand ethical behaviour and business practices, and ensure that own behaviour and the behaviour of others is consistent with these standards and aligns with the values of the organisation

Requirements

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• Interest and/or experience in video games, especially story & character, and/or Casting experience or interest in the performance arts (theatre, TV, cinema)

• Excellent client facing and internal communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written

• Attention to detail

• Both a self-starter, able to work alone as and where necessary, and a team player, able to pitch in at all levels to get the job done

• Experience in a similar role.

• Experienced knowledge and use of Microsoft Office, in particular of Microsoft Excel.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with matching

Dynamic and entrepreneurial culture

Video games focused environment

The opportunity to work with video games pioneers creating cutting edge interactive entertainment

Who we are

PTW is a boutique games services company that provides custom solutions worldwide. We believe in accelerating innovation across the globe. We started more than 25 years ago and since then, have grown exponentially year-on-year to who we are today. Our history is in gaming, and we are still gamers at heart. In our time within the games industry, we have worked on over 1,500 titles across all genres and all platforms.

We have grown rapidly over the past few years and now have 16 sites spanning the globe. The PTW umbrella of companies includes SIDE, 1518, OR Esports, and Entalize. SIDE works at the cutting edge of interactive media as a provider of audio services for the global entertainment market. 1518 is known industry wide for world-class art and is also our in-house game and product development studio.

Basically, anywhere in the world, any platform, any genre, we can help come up with a custom solution to make games run better, get to market faster, and enhance the lives of more players.

In summary, we connect and bring fun to the world.

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