Sam Miller

I returned to this production to assist with the launch on Sky One. I worked on the casting team and my main duties included vetting suitable contributors from the application inbox, building rapport with contributors, targeting on social media, creating casting flyers, logging release forms, processing CRB’s, cash handling, running contributor background checks using Google and Lexis Nexis and publishing casting calls in regional newspapers. I also oversaw the learning of a university placement student and monitored their development.

My main duties included managing the application inbox, targeting through social media and forwarding promising applications to an assistant-producer.

I worked directly with an assistant-producer on the background dater team. My main role was to process the data of 740 contributors; compliance checking each person on Google and Lexis Nexis before matching them for a blind date in the First Dates restaurant. My other duties included managing release forms, creating complex Excel spreadsheets, reconciling float money, administering expenses, maintaining a duty of care to contributors, creating casting flyers, co-ordinating runners on location and producing couples for the restaurant as and when the gallery needed them. Episodes included; Stand up to Cancer Celebrity Special

I returned to this production after the channel commissioned another two series. My main duty was to ensure the casting team had a constant stream of high calibre applications from across the UK. My other roles included targeting regional newspapers, creating effective targeting campaigns/casting flyers for social media and processing strict contributor background checks. I also logged release forms from both UK and international shoots.

I returned to this production to assist with the launch of the show on BBC One. I worked directly with the casting producer and my main role was to target for older, exciting couples with a gripping backstory. My other duties included contributor background checks on Google and Lexis Nexis, managing databases and assisting with casting recces.

My main duties included logging rushes, transcribing footage from international shoots, pitching ideas to producers, researching various entertainment acts on YouTube and liaising with performers via email.

My main duties included booking crew hotels, creating recce call sheets, finding locations in Brighton and devising an accommodation health and safety manual for the crew.

My main duties included targeting on social media, monitoring the application inbox and vetting suitable applications for the casting team, assisting on casting recces, creating casting flyers, managing live tweets on Twitter during episode broadcasts, booking crew hotels/transport and clearing BBC music. I assisted on location where my duties included transporting crew and contributors, set decoration and collecting release forms. I also created the productions official Facebook fan page and monitored its daily content.