6 days ago
Film Scene Description Specialist
Alignerr
Hybrid
Contractor
$75,000
Hybrid
Job Overview
Job TitleFilm Scene Description Specialist
Job TypeContractor
CategoryCommerce
Experience5 Years
DegreeMaster
Offered Salary$75,000
LocationHybrid
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Job Description
About Alignerr
Alignerr works with AI labs that need high-quality, human-created descriptions of film and video. Our teams help models understand not just “what is on screen,” but how a scene is staged, paced, and emotionally framed.
Role Overview
The Film Scene Description Specialist reviews short scenes and produces structured beat-by-beat visual descriptions. This role focuses on describing scene flow, camera behavior, blocking, pacing, and emotional tone strictly through visual information, without relying on dialogue.
What You’ll Do
- Watch scenes and break them into visual beats
- Describe camera movement, framing choices, pacing, and blocking
- Communicate mood and tone using purely visual indicators
- Identify key transitions, reveals, or motifs in the scene
- Follow standardized formatting for scene summaries and beat breakdowns
- Provide clarity notes where visuals are ambiguous
- Maintain consistency across a large volume of scene descriptions
Must-Have: What You Bring
- Background in film, directing, editing, cinematography, or film school
- Ability to describe scenes visually without referencing dialogue
- Strong structured writing and scene-analysis ability
- Comfort re-watching clips to ensure accuracy
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with script coverage, storyboarding, or pre-vis workflows
- Understanding of scene structure and storytelling fundamentals
Key skills/competency
- Film Analysis
- Visual Description
- Cinematography
- Editing Principles
- Structured Writing
- Scene Blocking
- Pacing Analysis
- Emotional Framing
- Attention to Detail
- Data Annotation
How to Get Hired at Alignerr
- Research Alignerr's mission: Understand their commitment to high-quality human-created data for AI labs.
- Highlight film expertise: Tailor your resume to emphasize experience in directing, editing, cinematography, or film studies.
- Showcase visual analysis skills: Provide examples of your ability to describe scenes strictly through visual information, without dialogue.
- Prepare for scene breakdown questions: Be ready to discuss your methodical approach to analyzing scene flow, camera behavior, and emotional framing.
- Demonstrate attention to detail: Emphasize your meticulousness in maintaining consistency and accuracy across many descriptions.
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