different job roles across different media sectors

1. Job Roles in the Media
Television
Transmission Engineer – They supervise the transmission of programs by
working in the Master Control Room, they make sure that all of the equipment is
serviceable and good enough to transmit.
Broadcasting Engineer – Works with hardware and broadcasting systems
maintaining the highest level of quality for all the equipment; by looking after
and servicing systems either during or post production.
Lighting Director – A lighting director works with various other people within a
production in order to create the lighting effect that is required by the director
themselves.
Sound Supervisor – a sound supervisor is someone who listens to either all or
isolated sound clips during a live performance, they do this by stationing
themselves on a machine of which all the sound sources are connected to it.
Broadcaster – The broadcaster is the person responsible for leading the audio
and visual collaboration and deciding which clips for video and audio are to be
the master sources that the audience is shown
Film
Researcher – the researcher is the role tasked with the person who looks up
historical facts for films that want to be historically accurate, for example a film
set in World War 2 would need historical research on the dates and events that
happen during the period of the film
Location Manager – The job role attached with scouting the different locations of
the film that are suitable and meet the requirements of the script and treatment.
Audio Dubber – Who in post production blends all different audio tracks
together to create a realistic sound track where 2 or more tracks clash with each
other.
Colourist – Colourist is the editor in post production who balanced the white
balance if it is not correct and uses colour pallettes to change the look of the
video so that the video does not look washed out.
Music
DJ – A Dj is a highly creative job with lots of creative potential, they can either
create new music entirely or use existing music tracks but add their own blend
to it.
Music Producer – they write, arrange the entire production, for pre, recording
and post for artists or for their own projects if there are no vocals

2. Songwriter – A person whose job is to create new, moderns and unique
meaningful lyrics to put out on a commercial market and appeal to the target
audience of their existing fan base.
Singer – Singers are the people who are the accumulation of all the work of
everyone else of a studio, if they fail at the singing part of the production then all
of the work will go in vein, because the commercial aspect of the production will
fail.
Advertising
Account Executive – This is the link between the client and the production
company, they help to produce the best marketing campaign that works for both
parties as they help the agency and client meet a resolve to produce the best
advert they possibly can.
Event Manager – an event manager helps create the dates and locations for the
areas where production will take place, this is important as it helps legally hold
an event at a location
Illustrator – An illustrator is someone who draws the still images for the agency,
this could be for pre production for such things as storyboard or concept art, or
could be for the advert itself.
Developer – A developers job is to design software that the client requires and
works to their specifications.
Journalism
Photojournalist – photographer who uses their photos to tell a visual story that
requires little to no words, they help convey a story that is hard for other media
sectors to convey
Feature Writers – Feature writers are writers that are employed to write the
headline grabbing breaking news stories that require a higher level of quality
and creativity in the writing to ensure that their publication on the breaking
news is the best coverage.
Reporters – Reporters are the people who usually write up stories and pass by
an editor to see for its validity and if the piece is of a good standard aswell as
physically going to places and getting news first hand
Editor – They select and review articles for publication, generator of ideas for
journalists and help amend and co write articles
Specialist Writers – A specialist writer is someone who is a specialist in writing a
column these can feature from a variety of different columns.