Film Scene Description Specialist

Labelbox; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

A film description company is looking for a Film Scene Description Specialist in Toronto, Canada. This role involves reviewing scenes and creating visual descriptions focusing on flow, camera behavior, and emotional tone without dialogue. Ideal candidates have a background in film and strong writing skills, ensuring accurate and structured descriptions. The hourly pay ranges from $30 to $50, reflecting the value of expertise in film analysis and visual storytelling.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to describe scenes visually without reference to dialogue.
• Experience in film analysis and scene breakdown.
• Comfortable with re-watching clips for accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Watch scenes and produce structured visual descriptions.
• Describe camera movement, framing choices, and pacing.
• Identify key transitions and motifs in scenes.

Skills

Film analysis

Structured writing

Scene description

Cinematography knowledge

Education

Background in film, directing, editing, or cinematography

Job description

About Alignerr

Alignerr works with AI labs that need high‑quality, human‑created descriptions of film and video. Our teams help models understand not just “what is on screen,” but how a scene is staged, paced, and emotionally framed.

Role Overview

The Film Scene Description Specialist reviews short scenes and produces structured beat‑by‑beat visual descriptions. This role focuses on describing scene flow, camera behavior, blocking, pacing, and emotional tone strictly through visual information, without relying on dialogue.

What You’ll Do

• Watch scenes and break them into visual beats
• Describe camera movement, framing choices, pacing, and blocking
• Communicate mood and tone using purely visual indicators
• Identify key transitions, reveals, or motifs in the scene
• Follow standardized formatting for scene summaries and beat breakdowns
• Provide clarity notes where visuals are ambiguousMaintain consistency across a large volume of scene descriptions

What You Bring

• Must-Have:
  • Background in film, directing, editing, cinematography, or film school
  • Ability to describe scenes visually without referencing dialogue
  • Strong structured writing and scene‑analysis ability
  • Comfort re‑watching clips to ensure accuracy
• Nice-to-Have:
  • Experience with script coverage, storyboarding, or pre‑vis workflows
  • Understanding of scene structure and storytelling fundamentals

$30 - $50 an hour