Video Editor

8848 Communications Limited; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

8848 Communications Limited is seeking a talented Video Editor to bring bold visual stories to life across social, digital campaigns and client work for our diverse agency portfolio.

You'll take briefs from concept to final cut, develop storyboards, add motion graphics, color grade and finalize exports for multiple platforms, collaborating with our creative, digital and PR teams to ensure on-brand results.

Qualifications

• Strong showreel or portfolio demonstrating editing, motion graphics and storytelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Edit video content for social, digital campaigns, marketing projects and client work.
• Take ideas from an initial brief through to the final cut, developing concepts, storyboards and visual ideas.
• Bring videos to life with motion graphics, titles, transitions and visual effects.
• Post-production: colour grading and sound, exporting content for different platforms.
• Collaborate with creative, digital, PR and social teams to ensure content is on-brand.
• Create different styles of content for different brands, audiences and channels.

Skills

Portfolio/showreel

Storytelling

Team collaboration

Deadline-oriented

Attention to detail

Tools

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Job description

About us

At 8848 we love being an independent full-service marketing, digital, PR and creative communications agency. It gives us the freedom to do things the right way and it means we're able to focus fully on coming up with original ideas that deliver results, drive brand awareness and make our clients look great. At 8848 we've never been ones for comfort zones. Or sticking to the usual marketing mix. Instead we continually enhance our services to provide an exciting point of difference.

The roles

We're looking for a talented Video Editor to bring bold visual stories to life across a variety of platforms for our exciting mix of clients.

In this role, you’ll:

• Edit video content for social, digital campaigns, marketing projects and client work
• Take ideas from an initial brief through to the final cut, developing concepts, storyboards and visual ideas along the way
• Bring videos to life with motion graphics, titles, transitions and visual effects
• Take care of the post-production process, from colour grading and sound through to exporting content for different platforms
• Work with our creative, digital, PR and social teams to bring ideas together and make sure the final content feels right for the brand
• Create different styles of content for different brands, audiences and channels
• Keep an eye on what's happening across social, video and motion design, and bring new ideas into your work

What we're looking for:

• Experience working in an agency environment in a video editing or motion design role would be great
• A strong showreel or portfolio that shows off your editing, motion graphics and storytelling skills
• Good working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
• A solid understanding of video specs, aspect ratios, frame rates and the different formats needed for social platforms
• Someone who can take a brief and a pile of raw footage and turn it into something people actually want to watch
• A good eye for detail, particularly when it comes to colour, sound, pacing and keeping things on brand
• Someone who enjoys working with other people, brings ideas to the table and is always looking for ways to make the work better