Occupational Profiles

This group performs some or all of the following duties:
 

Floor managers

• Coordinate the work of camera operators and other technical staff, and cue announcers, actors and performers during news broadcasts and television program tapings.

Key grips

• Supervise grips, gaffers and stagehands who rig, place, move and dismantle lights, sets, backdrops, scenery and other stage equipment.

Gaffers and lighting technicians

• Set up, operate and make repairs to lights and other electrical equipment in studios and on sets and stages.

Stunt coordinators and special effects technicians

• Design and coordinate special effects such as fires, explosions and crashes.

Make-up artists

• Apply cosmetic and special effects make-up on actors and other performers.

Costumiers

• Study scripts to determine the necessary costumes and oversee the acquisition, fitting and maintenance of costumes.

Settings shop foremen and property masters

• Assist in preparing the construction specifications for sets
• Identify and list the necessary props and place them during rehearsals and performances.

• For most occupations in this unit group, completion of a college or university program in broadcasting, theatre arts or a related field and several years of experience in a related support or assisting occupation in motion pictures, broadcasting or the performing arts are required.
• Floor managers require a portfolio of work.
• Make-up artists working in motion pictures, broadcasting and the performing arts may require a training program.
• Creative ability, as demonstrated by a portfolio of work, is required for make-up artists.
• For gaffers, lighting technicians, key grips and other stage technicians, completion of a college program or other specialized training program in technical production for theatre is required.
• Membership in a related union may be required.