Video Production Apprentice

Cool Cheese Productions is looking for young & passionate apprentices to join our team
This is a 3-6 months Apprenticeship Program, where you'll work on real world projects and learn directly from creative professionals. You'll play a supportive role in larger scale projects, and given opportunities to take on key roles in smaller scale projects.

**Available Roles **(pending on your strengths and what you'll like to explore)
- Producer & Director's Department (Assistant)
- Camera & Lighting Team
- Art Team
- Post Production (Editing, Mograph, Colour, VFX)
- Graphics & Design

**Apprenticeship Outcome**:

- Exposure to real-world projects, in different stages of the production pipeline (early stage idea creation, pre-pro, prod, post-pro, client management)
- Portfolio building through projects
- Opportunities to lead/experiment (reliant on your competency)
- Space to explore creativity
- Personal mentorship & guidance from seniors regarding your future career-tracks

**Skills & Abilities**:

- Hungry & Passionate to learn
- Not afraid of hardwork (FYI we don’t believe in squeezing dry our talents/employees)
- Passionate, Enthusiastic and takes initiative to learn
- Creatively Playful
- More importantly, the desire to grow as an individual/ professional
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Cool Cheese Productions is a video production team that focuses & excels in the craft of strategic storytelling, with the core essence of bringing 'play' back into creativity.

In other words, Cool Cheese is a team of professionally playful storytellers.

In the past 7 years, Cool Cheese has worked with many reputable companies such as Ogilvy & Mather, DDB, Hogarth, Publicis, Formula 1, Philips, Exxon Mobil, Nissin, HBO, Abbott, Intercontinental Hotels Group, MM2, L'Oreal, SingTel, Changi Airport Group, Binance, Logitech and many more.
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A job/career with us, is not just about getting work done or being the best. Its about synergy. Its about having the right people with the right talents, attitude & mindsets, being placed in the right group of people.

That is where creative synergy breeds. And so, this job post is not about finding the best, but finding who’s the most suitable at this present point of time. So before we tell you how to apply, here’s more about ourselves.
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**Some benefits of working with a young crazy company**:

- the opportunity to try out many different things
- your ideas are always listened to, no matter how crazy they are
- the space to grow
- to be able to voice out & make a difference
- the first hand personal experience & interaction with key players of the team & with our partners
- the space to seek self fulfillment
- limitless fun (if work is fun for you)

The **disadvantages** of working with a crazy company like ours:

- less comfortable work that requires you to keep growing
- interaction with crazy/weird/interesting people
- unnecessary amount of laughter in the office (not the creepy kind)

**What we believe in**:

- value of an individual - growth of character/skills
- the pursuit of creative expression
- originality - attitude & character being the backbone of success
- the seeking of self & team fulfilment
- rewarding value
- 1% inspiration 99% perspiration

**What we don't believe in**:

- "factory-like" creative work
- copying other's / standard template work
- a passionless job
- the lack of excellence
- squeezing dry employees
- solo work (because creativity thrives in teams)
- a boring joyless job
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**1. CV** (preferably with photo)

**2. Portfolio/Showreel** (link)

**3. One of your best selected works** (full length, not highlights)*

**4. Your answers to these questions below**:
**a)** On a scale of 1-10, how normal do you think you are? (10=totally normal, 1=totally abnormal)
**b)** Which do you think is more important to achieving success, having passion or being practical? Why? (Choose one only)
**c)** Talent or hard work? (Choose one only)
**d)** What do you value in your career?
**e)** What makes you unique & what value can you bring to Cool Cheese?
**f)** What are your goals, or which direction are you heading towards?

Thanks & have an awesome week ahead

**Job Type**: Internship
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: $800.00 - $1,000.00 per month

**Benefits**:

- Flexible schedule
- Professional development

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person