Footage Research and Sales Executive
Overview
Journeyman Pictures has been a distributor of global news and documentaries for over 35 years. The company sells to all markets worldwide, from festivals to cinemas, TV channels and digital platforms.
Over the company's history, we have amassed a vast, unique library of film material, which is a valuable resource for people around the world. One aspect of this is a thriving footage sales operation, which makes clips from our huge film archive available to people working on new productions, for a license fee. This can range from feature films to adverts, documentaries, art installations and more.
We run an online footage library at journeymanfootage.tv consisting of 70,000+ clips and 7,500+ full-length film screeners for customers to browse. This site is a constant work in progress, as we make more clips from the archive, and add new material each week.
The Role
This role is centered around being responsible for managing our archive whilst handling the research and sales work involved in licensing our material to customers.
Key responsibilities include:
- ensuring that the company’s newly acquired shorts and features are made available in the footage library by making clips of valuable footage in these videos
- managing the archive of tape-based masters, digitising and optimising them as necessary to make the old library available to customers digitally
- handling research requests and related licensing information requests
- carrying out negotiations with customers
- liaising directly with footage owners on sensitive uses of their footage
- checking the copyright status of and licensing restrictions on any footage being considered for licensing by a customer and handling any copyright infringement claims
- Processing orders for footage, including invoice, contract and delivery of master materials
Does this role suit you?
This role is best suited to someone who enjoys research and technical video work but who would also enjoy customer-facing sales work. You need to be able to jump between burying your head in the archive to handling time-sensitive negotiations with pushy buyers!
A methodical work approach, confident communication and an eye for detail are absolutely crucial skills for success in this role.
Key technical skill requirements are
- thorough familiarity with Adobe Premiere for video and audio editing;
- competence in Adobe Photoshop;
- comprehensive knowledge of digital video components and standards including codecs, frame rates, pixel aspect ratios, timecode systems, multi-track audio, transcoding, etc.;
- basic knowledge of magnetic tape formats and digitisation of Betacam (including Digi, SP and SX varieties), DV (including DVCAM and MiniDV varieties), Hi-8 and other tape formats.
NOTE: Training will be given as necessary, especially on tape formats.
Package
- Salary range £32-35,000 depending on experience
- Eligible for company pension scheme
- Eligible for company bonus scheme
Location: This is an on-site role and so you need to be able to commute to our office in Thames Ditton, Surrey. We are 35 minutes out from London Waterloo, along the South West line through Clapham Junction, Wimbledon and Surbiton.
