Film Scene Description Specialist

Labelbox; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A multimedia description service is seeking a Film Scene Description Specialist in Vancouver to create detailed visual descriptions of film scenes. The successful candidate will analyze and break down scenes based on visual elements, focusing on aspects such as pacing and camera behavior. Qualifications include a background in film and strong descriptive writing abilities. The position offers a pay range of $30 to $50 per hour and requires attention to detail in visual storytelling.

Qualifications

• Experience in film, directing, editing, or cinematography.
• Ability to analyze scenes without dialogue.
• Comfort re-watching clips for accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Break down scenes into visual beats.
• Describe camera movements and framing.
• Identify key transitions and motifs.
• Maintain consistency across scene descriptions.

Skills

Background in film or cinematography

Structured writing skills

Ability to describe scenes visually

Scene analysis ability

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