Videographer

Champions (UK) plc is one of the UK’s leading brand agencies. We boast an enviable portfolio of regional, national and international clients and a whole host of industry awards. A family-owned business driven by traditional family values, Champions has grown consistently over the past 20 years. In that time, we’ve evolved enormously in response to the world and the needs of our clients.

We continue to invest in our staff and in new technology to ensure we provide our clients with cutting edge services that deliver the very best of results. Expanding the team to over 80 highly-skilled specialists, Champions’ continued success means there are a number of additional, exciting employment opportunities.

Skill set required:

· Employing technical proficiency and creative vision to produce visually compelling footage that captivates and resonates with viewers.

· A thorough understanding of pre-production, demonstrating the ability to plan and prepare for a shoot. Determining the objectives, core messaging, and identifying the target demographic of the video.

· Skilfully operating video cameras to achieve optimal exposure, focus, and composition, while also leveraging lighting techniques to enhance the mood, atmosphere, and narrative impact of the content.

· An extensive knowledge of the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (After Effects and Premier Pro are essential. Audition, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop are desirable but not essential)

· The ability to craft a cohesive narrative from your footage. Selecting the best shots, arranging them in a logical sequence, and removing any unnecessary or distracting elements, ensuring that the story flows smoothly, keeping your viewers engaged from start to finish.

· Animating graphic elements, such as text, icons, illustrations, and images, ensuring these elements can move, change shape, scale, rotate, and transition in various ways to create engaging visuals.

· A good knowledge of colour grading, ensuring that the colours are balanced, vibrant, and consistent throughout the video, enhancing the visual appeal and helping to convey the desired emotional impact.

· Creating a specific look or mood, matching one shot to the next and adding depth and contrast to the final video.

· The ability to enhance audio quality, adjust levels, and add background music or sound effects to create an immersive audio experience.

· Ensuring all equipment remains in fully working order, keeping software up to date, lenses clean, batteries charged and stored neatly.

Benefits

• On-site gym

• The opportunity to take country walks around our grounds for exercise and well being

• New starter goodie bag

• Enhanced holiday allowance after two year continuous service with the company

• Modern, clean and spacious office in our new £1million digital hub

• Departmental socials

• Ongoing Training

• Contributory pension scheme

• Birthday bottle of bubbly

• My SmartE app