| Profession |
Skills Required |
Duties Performed |
| Film Editor |
- Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Troubleshooting: Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
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- Verify key numbers and time codes on materials.
- Confer with producers and directors concerning layout or editing approaches needed to increase dramatic or entertainment value of productions.
- Trim film segments to specified lengths, and reassemble segments in sequences that present stories with maximum effect.
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| Communications Editor |
- Management of Financial Resources: Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
- Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
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- Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
- Interview and hire writers and reporters or negotiate contracts, royalties, and payments for authors or freelancers.
- Confer with management and editorial staff members regarding placement and emphasis of developing news stories.
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| Cameraman |
- Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Operation Monitoring: Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
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- Compose and frame each shot, applying the technical aspects of light, lenses, film, filters, and camera settings to achieve the effects sought by directors.
- Label and record contents of exposed film, and note details on report forms.
- Download exposed film for shipment to processing labs.
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