Media Content Producer for Outdoor Venue

This position requires remote work with some onsite visiting to support particular communications needs of an organization overseeing an outdoor space or venue. The venue typically features public walking paths that provide access to natural and man-made scenic areas, flora and fauna, historical and cultural artifacts, and socially meaningful spaces.

The task of the media content producer is to work with a venue's stakeholders to develop or repurpose content that can be delivered as media to the venue's self-guiding visitors via their smartphones using the Geolocating Audio Tour (GAT) app which is explained at https://nearbyreality.com/ website. Using GAT, visitors see a geolocating map for navigation, and also get customized messaging along their chosen route, including browser text-to-speech, pre-recorded audio, and pictures and graphics that optionally link to external web pages. The possible themes for media content to accompany the geolocating map are nearly unlimited, constrained only by the imagination and desires of venue stakeholders.

The media content producer job requires a media-savvy individual who can apply their technological, journalistic, narrative and story-telling expertise to facilitate informational and other creative messaging originating from venue stakeholders. These stakeholders including venue leadership, staff, academic and professional experts, volunteers, and member-supporters who collectively are responsible for a venue's planning, operations, maintenance, development, education, special events and activities.

A successful candidate should have these skills and capabilities utilizing their personal laptop or tablet and smartphone: apply their chosen graphics software to capture and composite visuals including adapting venue-provided materials to create JPG or PNG graphic files of suitable size for the web; record and edit suitably high-quality MP3 audio files; work with proficiency within the web environment including navigating the Internet using URLs and browsers; ability to understand and possibly generate simple HTML encoded content.

Additionally the media content producer should become familiar with easy-to-use GAT built-in editing tools for uploading and managing media content which then becomes immediately available on each venue visitor's smartphone, augmenting the in-person nearby reality experience.

The media producer's assignment begins with assessing an organization’s information assets and resources such as histories, study and report texts, audio, pictures, graphics, videos, map data, onsite signage, kiosks, brochures, and venue website. The media content producer initially will repurpose this content for GAT, working with venue leadership to cohesively integrate GAT with the venue's communications messaging about ongoing and newly emerging venue initiatives.