Graphic Designer

Salary: £24,000 - £28,000 p/a, dependent on experience

Park Circus is looking for a creative to join their team for an in-house graphic design role.

Do you love the hand lettered titles on 1950s movie posters? Can you take a mix of stock images, character shots and screengrabs and weave them into an iconic piece of key art? Can you seamlessly add a helicopter to a dramatic smoke-filled sky? Could you take an iconic piece of Saul Bass key art and sensitively rework it to add/change some text or turn it into a quad poster? Do the stories and images and colours of movies inspire you?

If so, you may be the designer we are looking for!

Contract: Full-time, permanent

About Park Circus

Park Circus is an all-rights sales agency and distribution company representing the greatest names in filmed entertainment. Our classic film distribution and sales divisions represent the major Hollywood and British studios including Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing International, Disney, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, LAIKA, Film4 and ITV Studios as well as independent producers and rights holders. Park Circus enables audiences worldwide to experience classic and contemporary cinematic content through partnership with theatrical exhibition, television, digital and home entertainment organisations. http://www.parkcircus.com

The Role

Working as part of the marketing team, you will play a key role in how everything the company does looks and feels. This includes:

• Creating new movie posters
• Refreshing classic posters
• Working with the Marketing Manager to ensure trailer production ties in with the vision of a film’s publicity campaign (but depending on experience the role could potentially also oversee commissioning trailers for film releases)
• Creating, or overseeing the creation of, other release materials for campaigns – ads, social graphics, living posters, title treatments for press releases, printed materials, email newsletters, etc.
• Ensuring compliance of marketing materials with various legal requirements (billing obligations, legal lines, likeness clauses etc.)
• Supporting the review process for creative materials from third parties (including home entertainment packaging, localised posters from international distributors etc.)
• Creating brochures, catalogues, and other publications
• Trade fair display stands and other festival materials
• Any other company print requirements – e.g., business cards, letterhead

Key Skills

Essential

• Design talent and a varied portfolio
• Good time management – being able to juggle multiple projects and stick to deadlines
• Good eye for detail
• Communication skills – able to communicate ideas to the team and be adaptable to feedback
• Excellent Adobe Creative Suite skills, including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
• A love of classic and contemporary cinema

Desirable

• Experience creating or adapting key art
• Knowledge and experience of After Effects
• An understanding of film marketing and distribution

Applications

Apply via CV, cover letter and a link to your online portfolio to: jen@parkcircus.com

Applications will be reviewed as they are received.

Any questions – please feel free to reach out.

Park Circus is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.

Note that we are looking for the right talent here and are open to a wide range of applicants. If you’ve got the skills and want the job but have no movie poster experience – apply! Loads of experience and the salary is not enough – feel free to talk to us about part time options. Not UK-based? A freelance contract might be possible.

The closing date for this position is 19/08/2022 at 23:59