Color Assist, Features

22 Hours ago • All levels

About the job

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This role supports feature colorists, ensuring smooth operations from ingest to delivery. Must have a keen eye for detail, proficiency with DaVinci Resolve, and experience in post-production. Experience with digital cinema projectors is a plus.

Company: Company 3
Position: Color Assist, Features
Location: Hollywood, CA
Hours of Operation: 2:00pm - 10:00pm PST
*Pay Range: $22.00 - $30.00 USD hourly

POSITION SUMMARY:
The Color Assistant will be responsible for filling a variety of supporting roles to the colorist and providing support to produce color grading operations from ingest to delivery. Primarily they will learn new processes and maintain proficiency with evolving technical applications and trends with the company workflow. In this position they actively provide support and solutions for the colorist team.

This position will require working in our Hollywood studio on a regular basis. You may also be required to travel and work out of our studio in Santa Monica, as needed. Must be available to work overtime and variable shifts, including late nights, weekends and holidays, as necessary per business needs.

MAIN DUTIES:
The Color Assistant will be responsible for supporting feature colorists, resource and technology support, quality assurance and control, as well as providing exceptional customer service during client sessions. Their duties are outlined as follows:

Support Feature Colorists/Color Support: Help support, color and display systems that enable colorists to perform efficiently and productively during sessions. Knowledgeable of the various flavors of color spaces (P3DCI, P3D65, XYZ …), LUT applications and skills for color tracing, match grading and rendering.
Resource/New Technology Support: Operating DaVinici Resolve v18, Baselight or similar application, Barco 4K/2KP, Kinoton film projectors, DVS Clipster, Avid, Final Cut Pro, HDSR video machines and video routers. Help support new processes and maintain proficiency with evolving technical applications and trends with the company workflow.
Quality Assurance/Quality Control: Detailed oriented with application and equipment settings. Thoroughly check all work for errors before content is distributed downstream. Maintain outstanding levels of oversight of deliverables manufactured within the feature finishing process.
Teamwork: Collaborate and communicate with fellow colleagues to obtain job instructions and solutions to meet project deadlines. Document workflows and help train incoming new hires.
Customer Service: Drive client supervised sessions; screenings, visual effects reviews and color-correction sessions as directed by colorist and/or production management.

WHAT YOU BRING:
The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience working with media/post-production industry, as well as demonstrated experience as a hands-on operator. They will have excellent organizational skills, an exceptional eye for detail, strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills, and be a great team player. Additional desired skills include:

Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Have strong proficiency with Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Excellent typing skills.
Demonstrated working knowledge of Davinci Resolve v18 and/or Baselight is a plus.
Other System knowledge is a plus: DVS Clipster, Adobe Premiere, OSD/Transkoder, and Avid is a plus.
Demonstrate working experience with digital cinema projectors and film projectors is a plus.
Capacity and interest to learn new material as needed in fast-paced and technical professional environment

About the Company:
Company 3 / Method Studios provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more. 

Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3:
Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self.
It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

*The listed pay range represents the lowest to highest range that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, local currency exchange rates, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, applicable law, and business or organizational needs.
The benefits for eligible part-time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full-time employees in the US include a comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off. The benefits for eligible project hires and part-time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US include retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits. For roles filled in Canada and other territories, local benefits plan offerings will apply.
Both external and internal candidates can apply for this role through this careers’ website.
The above compensation and benefits information is provided in accordance with various state and local pay transparency laws.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with applicable law.

$45.8K - $62.4K/yr (Outscal est.)

$54.1K/yr avg.

Hollywood, Florida, United States

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About The Company

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Company 3 is a comprehensive postproduction facility for features, episodic, commercials, and music videos. Known for its creative color artistry, pioneering technology, and global reach, Company 3 is trusted to deliver a quality product every time. It is home to one of the largest and most talented pools of colorists and visual effects artists working in post-production today with a client list that includes many of the most respected and talented film and entertainment professionals in the industry.

Company 3 offers solutions-based services ranging from color correction, Digital Intermediate (DI), and file-based workflows to visual effects and online services. Through its virtual outposts, Company 3 Colorists are available to clients around the world.