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Film & Social Video Intern
Full-Time University Placement | Boteane™
Location: Fully remote, anywhere in the UK
Placement Type: Full-time university internship / placement
Working Pattern: Full-time with flexible working
Compensation: Unpaid university placement
Holiday: Holiday and time off managed through an agreed rota
Eligibility: Applicants must be current university students completing the internship as part of an approved university internship or placement programme
Reporting to: Founder, Boteane™
About Boteane™
Boteane™ is a premium loose-leaf tea brand reimagining how a new generation discovers, experiences and enjoys tea.
We combine beautiful products, ingredients, storytelling and contemporary rituals to create a distinctive alternative to traditional tea culture.
We are now developing the next stage of Boteane's brand and advertising creative and are looking for a talented film, filmmaking or video production student to join us for a full-time university placement.
This is an opportunity to move beyond hypothetical student briefs and work on real creative campaigns with real products, real audiences and real advertising budgets.
Your work has the potential to be published, promoted and tested across Boteane's social and advertising channels, giving you first-hand experience of how filmmaking works within a live consumer brand.
The Opportunity
You will work directly with Boteane's founder to develop short-form film and advertising creative for social media, with a particular focus on Instagram and the Meta advertising platform.
You'll receive specific creative and commercial briefs and be responsible for helping translate those briefs into film.
That could mean researching a cultural or visual direction, developing a concept, creating a treatment and storyboard, filming products, editing multiple versions and then seeing how the resulting creative performs when it reaches a real audience.
Importantly, the process doesn't finish when something is published.
You'll have the opportunity to understand what happened after your work went live.
Which creative generated attention? Which opening hook stopped people scrolling? Which edit held attention longer? Which version drove people to explore the brand? What should we change next time?
You'll then use those insights to develop the next iteration.
This means gaining experience at the intersection of filmmaking, advertising, brand development and performance creative.
What You'll Work On
Depending on current campaigns and briefs, your work may include:
- Interpreting real Boteane creative and advertising briefs
- Researching visual, cultural and social-media trends
- Developing campaign concepts and creative treatments
- Producing mood boards, storyboards and shot lists
- Planning shoots independently
- Shooting Boteane products and lifestyle content
- Creating short-form films for Instagram
- Producing Instagram Reels
- Creating video assets specifically for Meta advertising
- Editing social-first video in different lengths and formats
- Developing strong opening hooks for short-form content
- Experimenting with pacing, sound, transitions and narrative
- Creating multiple versions of the same creative for A/B testing
- Working within an established brand identity while contributing new ideas
- Responding to creative feedback and iterating work
- Reviewing campaign performance
- Comparing creative variants against agreed KPIs
- Identifying what can be learned from audience behaviour
- Applying those insights to the next campaign
- Contributing to the continuing development of Boteane's visual identity
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Real Advertising Experience
A particularly important part of this placement is the opportunity to see what happens when creative work moves beyond the editing suite.
Boteane runs advertising through Meta, and you'll have the opportunity to create assets intended for real paid campaigns.
That means learning to think about film not simply as something that looks beautiful, but as something that also has a job to do.
You'll begin to explore questions such as:
- What makes somebody stop scrolling?
- What earns another three seconds of attention?
- Does the first frame communicate enough?
- Does the film tell a story without sound?
- Which creative treatment resonates with a particular audience?
- Why did Version A outperform Version B?
You'll be encouraged to form hypotheses, create different creative executions and learn from the resulting campaign data.
The objective isn't simply to make more content. It is to become a more thoughtful and commercially aware filmmaker.
Who We're Looking For
We are looking primarily for students studying:
- Film
- Filmmaking
- Film Production
- Cinematography
- Video Production
- Moving Image
- Digital Film
Or a closely related creative discipline
You should have a genuine interest in visual storytelling and want to understand how those skills can be applied within advertising and brand development.
You don't need to arrive as a fully formed commercial filmmaker.
We are looking for creative potential, visual judgement, curiosity and the ability to develop your work.
Essential Requirements
You must:
- Be a current university student
- Be eligible to undertake this internship through your university
- Complete the role as part of a formal university internship or placement programme
- Be available for a full-time placement
- Be based in the UK for the duration of the placement
- Be comfortable working remotely
- Have experience shooting and editing video
- Be able to work independently against an agreed brief
- Be able to manage deadlines and communicate progress
- Be comfortable receiving constructive creative feedback
- Be willing to develop and iterate your work rather than treating the first version as the finished product
This is an unpaid university placement and is only open to students undertaking the opportunity through an appropriate university internship or placement programme.
Your Portfolio
A video portfolio or showreel is required for interview.
We want to see your work.
Your portfolio does not need to contain professional advertising campaigns or previous commercial clients.
University work is absolutely welcome.
You can include:
- Short films
- University projects
- Social video
- Product films
- Music videos
- Fashion films
- Documentary work
- Experimental film
- Personal projects
- Reels or TikTok-style content
- Cinematography exercises
- Editing projects
We're interested in seeing your visual instincts, storytelling, composition, movement, editing, pacing and ideas.
We'd also like to hear about the decisions behind your work.
Working at Boteane™
This is a full-time, fully remote placement, and you can be based anywhere in the UK.
We operate with flexible working, meaning you will have considerable freedom to organise your working day around your creative process.
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There will be agreed meetings, campaign deadlines, reviews and collaborative sessions that you'll need to attend, but we don't believe that creative work needs to happen within arbitrary office hours.
What matters is that you:
- Take ownership of your work
- Communicate clearly
- Attend agreed meetings
- Manage your time effectively
- Meet agreed deadlines
- Ask questions when something isn't clear
- Keep the team informed of progress
- Deliver work to the standard agreed in the brief
Holiday and time away are incorporated into the placement and planned in advance through an agreed rota, allowing us to manage campaign schedules while ensuring everyone has appropriate breaks and time away from work.
What You'll Learn
The placement is designed to bridge the gap between studying filmmaking and creating work within a commercial environment.
You'll gain practical experience across:
- Filmmaking
- Creative development
- Treatments
- Storyboarding
- Shot planning
- Product filmmaking
- Short-form storytelling
- Editing and post-production
- Advertising
- Creative briefs
- Meta advertising
- Social-first creative
- Audience-led creative development
- Hooks and attention
- Creative variants
- A/B testing
- Campaign performance
- Brand
- Brand positioning
- Visual identity
- Tone and storytelling
- Audience personas
- Creative consistency
- Campaign development
- Commercial Creative
Working with a real advertising budget
Responding to stakeholder feedback
Working to deadlines
Understanding KPIs
Analysing audience response
Learning from performance
Iterating creative based on evidence
What We Want You to Leave With
By the end of the placement, our aim is for you to have something significantly more valuable than a line on your CV.
You should have a body of work that demonstrates that you have worked with a real consumer brand, interpreted commercial briefs, created published advertising assets and understood how audiences responded to your creative decisions.
Where appropriate, you'll be able to use completed work as part of your developing portfolio or showreel.
Most importantly, we want you to leave understanding how to combine your instincts as a filmmaker with the strategic and commercial thinking required to create effective advertising.
How to Apply
Please send us:
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A short introduction
Tell us who you are, what you're studying and what interests you about the opportunity.
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Your university details
Tell us your university, course and current year of study.
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Placement confirmation
Confirm that you are able to undertake an unpaid placement as part of your university's formal internship or placement programme.
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Your CV
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Your video portfolio or showreel
Please provide a link to examples of your work.
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A short note about your creative interests
Tell us what kind of filmmaking you most enjoy and what you would particularly like to develop during the placement.
Interview
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an informal online interview.
A significant part of the conversation will be about your portfolio. We'll ask you to talk us through selected pieces, explain the thinking behind them and discuss what you would do differently now.
We're interested in your ideas and potential, not just technical perfection.
If you're excited by the idea of seeing your filmmaking move from brief → concept → production → live advertising → audience data → creative iteration, we'd love to hear from you.
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