Event Blog - Job Roles

Job Roles

As a group we decided it would be a great idea to have media job role descriptions printed onto individual posters as another way to get relevant information across to the audience / guests. We decided on eighteen different job roles:

- Presenter
- Journalist
- Lighting
- Director
- Producer
- P.A.
- Editor
- Researcher
- Vision Mixer
- Set Design
- Props
- Camera operator
- Runner
- Cinematographer
- Costume Design
- Foley Artist
- Sound Editor
- Location Sound Technician

To make it fair we decided we would each research three job roles and write up a brief detailed description of what the type of job involved. This information could then be pastd on to a design team to come up with a poster design.

The three job role I researched were:

Location Production Assistant

A Location Production Assistant (P.A) works closely with the producer, director and production team. A P.A. is someone who is there throughout the whole project from pre-production to post-production. They are responsible for a wide variety of tasks these includes preparing paper-work (shot lists, schedules, call sheets, etc) ensuring all the relevant information is distributed to cast and crew, gaining all relevant permissions from contributors, hiring equipment overseeing the production, logging and tying up any loose ends.

Vision Mixer

A Vision mixer is a technician who works in the studio, controlling the vision mixer console selecting the images that are seen on the television screens. They are often under the instruction of the director cutting and mixing the selected images together to produce smooth transitions between the images. A camera script is often followed to implement what will be broadcast either live or pre-recorded.



Journalist

A journalist researches and gathers facts and information on a particular topic or subject area and writes the information found up into a report which can then be published in a newspaper and magazine or broadcast on T.V or the radio. A journalist has to follow certain rules and regulations to ensure anything produced / written is correct and from justifiable sources.