Performance & Directing Supervisor

• Define clear standards for acting realism, blocking, screen direction (the 180-degree rule and eyelines) and continuity, critique current evaluations, and help build a taxonomy of the ways generated performances fail.
• Identify, generate and curate strong examples of excellent and genuinely hard dramatic performances and staging, and test early model capabilities against them.
• Review generated scenes the way you would in dailies, and write precise, actionable notes on performance, staging and continuity.
• Help define how human reviewers are vetted and calibrated, and review captioning guidelines so performance and directing nuance is described accurately.
• Collaborate with other experts to keep evaluations consistent and accurate.

• 7+ years of professional experience in film, television, theater or animation.
• Credits on 2+ professional films.
• A background in at least one of: Film or Television Director or 1st Assistant Director; Animation Director or Character Animation Supervisor; Script Supervisor; or Performance Capture Director, Acting Teacher or Coach (film or theater).
• A meticulous eye for micro expressions, emotional beats, eyelines, continuity and staging.
• Hands-on use of generative image and video tools (e.g., Runway, Midjourney, Sora, Kling) to create your own samples for testing and comparison.
• Ability to engage reliably for approximately 40 hours/week during weekdays.
• Strong written communication and the ability to turn acting, blocking and directing detail into precise language for captions and evaluation templates.

• Reliable access to a 4K display for pixel-level review.

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