Profession audio-visual technician

Audio-visual technicians set up, operate and maintain equipment to record and edit images and sound for radio and television broadcasts, at live events and for telecommunication signals.

Personality Type

• Realistic / Investigative
• Realistic / Conventional
• Realistic / Artistic

Knowledge

• Audiovisual equipment

  The characteristics and usage of different tools that stimulate the sight and audio senses.

• Audiovisual products

  The different types of audiovisual products and their requirements, such as documentaries, low budget movies, television series, records, CDs, and others.

Skills

• Apply health and safety standards

  Adhere to standards of hygiene and safety established by respective authorities.

• Maintain audiovisual equipment

  Perform routine maintenance tasks on audiovisual equipment as well as minor repairs, such as replacing parts and calibrating the instruments, on equipment used in processing sound and images.

• Operate audio equipment

  Apply technologies for re-creation or recording of sounds, such as speaking, sound of instruments in electrical or mechanical form.

• Plan audiovisual recording

  Plan audio-visual recordings.

• Operate video equipment

  Use of various types of video equipment.

• Maintain electronic equipment

  Check and repair electronic equipment. Detect malfunction, locate faults and take measures to prevent damage.

• Maintain electrical equipment

  Test electrical equipment for malfunctions. Take safety measures, company guidelines, and legislation concerning electrical equipment into account. Clean, repair and replace parts and connections as required.

• Adapt to type of media

  Adapt to different types of media such as television, movies, commercials, and others. Adapt work to type of media, scale of production, budget, genres within type of media, and others.

• Transfer uncut audiovisual material to computer

  Transfer uncut audiovisual materials to a computer, synchronise them and store them.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB