Make Great Screencasts? Use WordPress? We’d like to hear from you…
We’re looking for a person (or two!) that can make short, elegant, informative, high quality screencasts of WPMU DEV plugins in action.
As well as produce updated and improved versions of our current videos showing how to use WordPress.
We’d like to make demos without voice, for example, here’s a draft effort for our plugin Snapshot.
And update the screenshots and voice for our ‘how to’ videos, for example, here’s How to change your WordPress Theme:
As well as heaps of other cool stuff (Edublogs, WPMU.org, tutorial videos, exciting new projects)
So, if you:
- Want to work from home (or wherever) with a the great team at WPMU DEV and Edublogs
- Enjoy a challenge, and are keen on working on all sorts of cool new stuff, and coming up with yoru own ideas
- Can make professional looking videos like the above (or better, preferably!)
- Work creatively and independently on that (we’ll supply guidelines and ideas, but not detailed scripts.. it’s up to you to make them rock out)
Then we’ve a pretty much full time role for you at Incsub (40+ hrs / week, although we’re happy to look at anyone with over 20 hrs availability), so…
Get in touch by:
Emailing us at jobs@incsub.com with:
- Some info about yourself, as much or as little as you like
- The url of your video portfolio (sorry, no video portfolio, no application)
- The hourly rates that would work for you (please note this is a junior/intermediate position here and we are rate conscious… George Lucas maybe next time ;)
- Your availability
And if we like what we see then we’ll get in touch with you to set up a paid trial (a video or two).
Applications close Friday 21st September, but the sooner you can apply, the more likely you are to make the cut as we’ll be setting up trials as of tomorrow!
Good luck, and please feel free to ask any questions in the comments.
Awww. Sounds fun! Wish I had the friggin’ time. Good luck to all you applicants though. And luck finding someone James.
I’m SO interested :) wonder if my email was first ;)
Application sent! I’m your gal, this is my destiny.
I gave up on you guys. I have tons of experience and not even an form email back thanking me for submitting my information for several past job submissions.
Good luck on finding someone…but the way I look at it…the way you treat the non-hire applicants tells me all I want to know :(.
Hi Paul, V sorry indeed that you haven’t been responded to in the past – we’re usually *super* focused on considering every application in full (unless, say, in this case it didn’t include a video portfolio… which would indicate the person hadn’t read the post in full).
I did have a look in my records and it appears that Mason responded to your application fo the support role in quite a bit of detail, so I assume it’s not that (we were overwhelmed for that one too… 250+ applications!) – so I can only offer my apologies for anything we did miss and assure you (and anyone else reading this) that we absolutely try our hardest to do the opposite… even if there are hundreds of applications.
Dude they used to call me James Farmer at school of course you want a body double
Lol, we need a like button for comments :)
I have a mic with Morgan Freeman mode :) Hire me.
Edublogs…love it..
I have sent you application.. I have been working with DemoWolf.. I have done lots video series for them. Details are in email.
Waiting for your reply.
Regards
Great idea, I am super screencaster – of course multilingual and I sent you an mail with some details :)
Very interested.
Will be sending the application soon.
I am interested and have some experience. Will contact you guys.
I’ve just submitted my application. Looking forward to a response and wish everyone who applies the best of luck.
Since it appears that people more qualified than I will apply, I was wondering if you could tell me what program was used to create the “magnifying glass” pop up in the Snapshots example you have above. Unless of course it’s top secret. I like the little blue pop-up annotations, too. I thought I knew most screencast tools but I’ve never seen those before. Good luck to all applicants. This seems like a sweet gig!
killer opportunity just submitted… best of luck all.
There are a lot of ways to do that. It really depends on your level of expertise and available software. The “easiest”, highest quality way to pull off a more organic of this is with After Effects and a little plug-in called Pendulum, which you can grab for free.
Darn it! That was a reply to Nick Simard. Sorry ’bout that. My computer flipped out a little. ;-)
Thanks Jon. I’ve got very little experience with After Effects, but I do own the program. I appreciate your response. Now I have an idea which direction to go in.
No problem Nick. Yeah… It can be tough to get used to, but once you get it… Man, you can do anything with AE. Pendulum is a great little plug-in. Most of the examples you’ll see are of swinging or hanging pendulum effects, but you can also use it to create really organic elastic bounce scaling and much more. Between you and me, it’s one of my favorites. Organic physical reactions and interactions are some of the hardest things to create in 3D space and this just makes it really, really easy, giving all full control over every part of it.
Anyways, good luck with you application, and have fun playing with After Effects. :-) Let me know if you have problems finding pendulum or the docs for it and I’ll get them to you.
I thought I’d better put in here that I put in my application yesterday, just in case it didn’t arrive :)
A great opportunity.
Sent in my info along with a YouTube playlist of my screencast.
Hi there, I’ve just applied as I saw this while on holiday and I just got back. I hope I’m not too late and that you’d love to have a british accent join your team of screencasting glory. I’ve added links from my youtube and my CV. I hope to hear from you soon and wish good luck to all the other applicants.
Just applied. All the best to all the applicants!
I just missed the time frame. Just saw the post…. Shoot!!!!!!!!
Thank you for replying to the application and letting me know the status of my application. It was nice gesture to reply back.
I did not make it :-(. Best of luck to those who did make it to the next rounds and I hope WPMU finds its next screencaster soon.