Film & Video Editors

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Film & Video Editors

Edit motion picture soundtracks, film, and video.

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Personal Values

Degrees

Audiovisual Communications Technologies + Technicians, Other

Cinematography and Film + Video Production

Communications Technology + Technician

Photojournalism

Radio and Television Broadcasting Technology + Technician

Radio and Television

Abilities

Information Ordering

The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Oral Comprehension

The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

Oral Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.

The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).

The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Category Flexibility

The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.

The ability to see details at a distance.

Fluency of Ideas

The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).

The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.

Speech Recognition

The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.

Written Comprehension

The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.

Deductive Reasoning

The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.

Written Expression

The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.

Inductive Reasoning

The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).

Problem Sensitivity

The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.

The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.

Visual Color Discrimination

The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.

Flexibility of Closure

The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.

Hearing Sensitivity

The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.

Perceptual Speed

The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

Selective Attention

The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.

Finger Dexterity

The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.

Arm-Hand Steadiness

The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.

Auditory Attention

The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.

Control Precision

The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.

Mathematical Reasoning

The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.

Number Facility

The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.

Speed of Closure

The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.

The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).

Manual Dexterity

The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.

The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.

The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.

Depth Perception

The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.

Multilimb Coordination

The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

Response Orientation

The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.

The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.

The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing.

Wrist-Finger Speed

The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.

Static Strength

The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.

Dynamic Strength

The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.

Extent Flexibility

The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.

Gross Body Coordination

The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.

The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.

Gross Body Equilibrium

The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.

Sound Localization

The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.

Dynamic Flexibility

The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

Glare Sensitivity

The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting.

Speed of Limb Movement

The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.

Interests

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

First Interest High-Point

Primary-Rank Descriptiveness

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Knowledge

Communications and Media

Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

Computers and Electronics

Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

English Language

Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

Education and Training

Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

Customer and Personal Service

Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

Production and Processing

Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

Sales and Marketing

Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

Telecommunications

Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.

Administration and Management

Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

Law and Government

Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

Philosophy and Theology

Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

Personnel and Human Resources

Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

Economics and Accounting

Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

Engineering and Technology

Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub- atomic structures and processes.

Public Safety and Security

Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

Sociology and Anthropology

Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.

Foreign Language

Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

History and Archeology

Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

Building and Construction

Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

Therapy and Counseling

Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

Medicine and Dentistry

Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

Wages

Iowa	$25,860.00

Ohio	$41,440.00

Utah	$32,070.00

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Directors- Stage, Motion Pictures, Television, & Radio

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Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, & Illustrators

Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of mediums and techniques, such as painting and sculpture.

Photograph persons, subjects, merchandise, or other commercial products. May develop negatives and produce finished prints.

Sound Engineering Technicians

Operate machines and equipment to record, synchronize, mix, or reproduce music, voices, or sound effects in sporting arenas, theater productions, recording studios, or movie and video productions.

Talent Directors

Audition and interview performers to select most appropriate talent for parts in stage, television, radio, or motion picture productions.

Technical Directors/Managers

Coordinate activities of technical departments, such as taping, editing, engineering, and maintenance, to produce radio or television programs.

Skills

Active Learning

Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Equipment Selection

Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.

Active Listening

Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Time Management

Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Reading Comprehension

Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

Learning Strategies

Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.

Operation and Control

Controlling operations of equipment or systems.

Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Operations Analysis

Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.

Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Troubleshooting

Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

Social Perceptiveness

Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

Equipment Maintenance

Performing routine maintenance on equipment and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed.

Complex Problem Solving

Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.

Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Judgment and Decision Making

Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

Teaching others how to do something.

Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.

Operation Monitoring

Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

Service Orientation

Actively looking for ways to help people.

Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.

Technology Design

Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.

Using mathematics to solve problems.

Quality Control Analysis

Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.

Repairing machines or systems using the needed tools.

Management of Personnel Resources

Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.

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.

Management of Material Resources

Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.

Systems Analysis

Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.

Writing computer programs for various purposes.

Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

Tasks

Cut shot sequences to different angles at specific points in scenes, making each individual cut as fluid and seamless as possible.

Study scripts to become familiar with production concepts and requirements.

Edit films and videotapes to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, to arrange films into sequences, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.

Select and combine the most effective shots of each scene to form a logical and smoothly running story.

Mark frames where a particular shot or piece of sound is to begin or end.

Determine the specific audio and visual effects and music necessary to complete films.

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.

Manipulate plot, score, sound, and graphics to make the parts into a continuous whole, working closely with people in audio, visual, music, optical or special effects departments.

Organize and string together raw footage into a continuous whole according to scripts or the instructions of directors and producers.

Supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in film editing, assembling, and recording activities.

Review assembled films or edited videotapes on screens or monitors to determine if corrections are necessary.

Program computerized graphic effects.

Trim film segments to specified lengths, and reassemble segments in sequences that present stories with maximum effect.

Review footage sequence by sequence to become familiar with it before assembling it into a final product.

Set up and operate computer editing systems, electronic titling systems, video switching equipment, and digital video effects units to produce a final product.

Develop post-production models for films.

Piece sounds together to develop film soundtracks.

Conduct film screenings for directors and members of production staffs.

Record needed sounds, or obtain them from sound effects libraries.

Collaborate with music editors to select appropriate passages of music and develop production scores.

Discuss the sound requirements of pictures with sound effects editors.

Estimate how long audiences watching comedies will laugh at each gag line or situation, to space scenes appropriately.

Career Activities

Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work

organize commercial artistic or design projects

Thinking Creatively

achieve special lighting or sound effects

convey moods or emotions through music

create art from ideas

develop movie sound track

edit video film scenes

tell stories through musical, visual, or dramatic arts

use creativity in graphics

use creativity to art or design work

Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge

use graphic arts techniques

use knowledge of multi-media technology

Making Decisions and Solving Problems

Interacting With Computers

use computer graphics design software

Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events

distinguish details in graphic arts material

identify color or balance

Processing Information

organize story elements

Analyzing Data or Information

interpret information to formulate story ideas

Controlling Machines and Processes

operate audio-visual equipment

operate film or sound editing equipment

operate recording or broadcast studio controls

operate special visual effects equipment

Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others

confer with other departmental heads to coordinate activities

direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff

give direction in audio recording studio

Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People

assess script quality

review assembled film or video tape on monitor

review film, recordings, or rehearsals

Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment

install or set up equipment

Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment

measure and mark reference points or cutting lines on workpieces

Career Context

Indoors, Environmentally Controlled

Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls

Spend Time Sitting

Face-to-Face Discussions

Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions

Electronic Mail

Structured versus Unstructured Work

Freedom to Make Decisions

Work With Work Group or Team

Importance of Being Exact or Accurate

Contact With Others

Frequency of Decision Making

Consequence of Error

Responsibility for Outcomes and Results

Coordinate or Lead Others

Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results

Importance of Repeating Same Tasks

Deal With External Customers

Responsible for Others' Health and Safety

Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable

Exposed to Contaminants

Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment

Spend Time Bending or Twisting the Body

Letters and Memos

Degree of Automation

Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting

Frequency of Conflict Situations

Level of Competition

Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions

Physical Proximity

Exposed to Hazardous Equipment

Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People

Deal With Physically Aggressive People

Very Hot or Cold Temperatures

Career Styles

Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.

Attention to Detail

Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.

Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.

Stress Tolerance

Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.

Adaptability/Flexibility

Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.

Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.

Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.

Achievement/Effort

Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.

Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.

Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.

Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.

Job requires being honest and ethical.

Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.

Analytical Thinking

Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.

Concern for Others

Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.

Social Orientation

Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.

Career Needs

Workers on this job plan their work with little supervision.

Workers on this job get a feeling of accomplishment.

Workers on this job try out their own ideas.

Workers on this job receive recognition for the work they do.

Workers on this job make decisions on their own.

Workers on this job are looked up to by others in their company and their community.

Workers on this job are paid well in comparison with other workers.

Ability Utilization

Workers on this job make use of their individual abilities.

Workers on this job give directions and instructions to others.

Company Policies and Practices

Workers on this job are treated fairly by the company.

Workers on this job have something different to do every day.

Working Conditions

Workers on this job have good working conditions.

Workers on this job are never pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.

Supervision, Human Relations

Workers on this job have supervisors who back up their workers with management.

Workers on this job have steady employment.

Workers on this job are busy all the time.

Workers on this job have opportunities for advancement.

Workers on this job have co-workers who are easy to get along with.

Workers on this job do their work alone.

Supervision, Technical

Workers on this job have supervisors who train their workers well.

Workers on this job have work where they do things for other people.

Career Values

Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employs to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.

Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.

Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status.

Working Conditions

Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.

Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations