| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Film Editor |
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
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- Confer with producers and directors concerning layout or editing approaches needed to increase dramatic or entertainment value of productions.
- Conduct film screenings for directors and members of production staffs.
- Review assembled films or edited videotapes on screens or monitors to determine if corrections are necessary.
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| Cameraman |
- Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
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- Stay current with new technologies in the field by reading trade magazines.
- Adjust positions and controls of cameras, printers, and related equipment to change focus, exposure, and lighting.
- Direct studio productions.
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| News Reporters |
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Mathematics: Using mathematics to solve problems.
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- Write columns, editorials, commentaries, or reviews that interpret events or offer opinions.
- Research and report on specialized fields such as medicine, science and technology, politics, foreign affairs, sports, arts, consumer affairs, business, religion, crime, or education.
- Report and write news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.
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