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Audiovisual technician (level 5)

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Information about Audiovisual technician (level 5)

Provide a broad range of professional solutions for communication.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • Connection of audio system components, signal flow and conversion
  • Methods of configuring and testing wireless microphones and what are common issues and adequate problem solving techniques
  • The impact of microphone placement and room acoustics on an audio signal
  • Audio mixing desk routing and operation
  • Digital Audio Workstation fundamental operations
  • Unmanaged audio mixing scenarios
  • Lighting design and fixtures/controller connections
  • Synchronisation of video signals for multi-camera setups
  • Principals of photography for moving image
  • Appropriate audiovisual equipment and/or applications for a given brief
  • Project management principles: planning, change, budgets, and documentation
  • Integrated audiovisual solutions for specific requirements
  • How to use CAD drawings when designing systems
  • AV over IP concepts and operation: servers, digital signage, channel distribution, and access
  • Awareness of the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of videoconferencing systems and platforms
  • Videoconferencing booking systems
  • Redundancy and backup systems relevant to the project
  • Hardware/software configurations for streaming online audiovisual content
  • Installation/configuration of personal computers and common computer operating systems general functionality
  • Project mastering
  • Designation of video resolutions, frame rates, and output options
  • Video compression and decompression through codec and bitrate workflows
  • Required workflows for online and offline edits utilising a media server
  • Designation of sampling rate, bit depth, and channel options
  • Audio deliverables within the context of a specific project
  • Different types of online events, their requirements and key considerations
  • Interactive solutions for online events
  • Audiovisual accessibility considerations and systems
  • Personal data management in accordance with relevant data protection legislation
  • National, employer, and context specific health and safety regulations
  • Potential hazards and preventative measures

  Skills

  • Operate a video camera and vision mixer
  • Integrate a projector and/or display as part of an audiovisual presentation
  • Audio mixing; loudness, timbre, spatialisation, and channel management
  • Apply and problem solve video signal flow for live production
  • Operate and program lighting control software/hardware
  • Root cause analysis & problem solving
  • Collate, compare, and synthesise information from various sources
  • Work collaboratively; Building and maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders (such as performers, public speakers, presenters, clients and event organisers)
  • Communicate technical concepts with clarity in person and in writing to end users of all skill levels and seniority
  • Install, test, and commission relevant hardware
  • Configure and manage remote participation systems
  • Edit audio and video content
  • Prepare, maintain, and manipulate audio and video assets through post-production
  • Create digital assets for video workflows
  • Manual camera operating for a range of contemporary S35mm digital cameras
  • Audio capture
  • Deliver virtual event technical operations
  • Clearly advise and guide event participants
  • Devise a learning program intended to cover a particular device/system
  • Identify personal training and professional development needs via research and investigation
  • Organise appropriate personal professional development activities to develop and enhance own role and skills
  • Use collaborative online environments to schedule and update projects and tasks
  • Complete risk assessment documentation
  • Accurately assesses level of risk to health and safety of themselves and others
  • Test and maintain audiovisual equipment, cables, and connectors: substitute items where necessary
  • Document and record maintenance activities
  • Safe storage of equipment
  • Create a coherent planning document

  Behaviours

  • Think and act independently and safely whilst working within company guidelines
  • Work calmly and methodically in time-sensitive situations
  • Reference user manuals and manufacturer guidance
  • Awareness of the importance of regular contact, when appropriate, to offer updated information and documentation
  • Able to modify personal approach based on the situation
  • Challenges approaches to work in a constructive manner
  • Confident & effective communicator
  • Online researcher of new equipment and training opportunities, communicate with professionals and organisations to prioritise personal training goals and activities
  • Well prepared, anticipates issues ahead of time
  • Take initiative e.g. seek the source of an issue of own accord and take necessary action
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Creative and design
• Qualification level: 5; Equal to higher national diploma (HND)
• Course duration: 24 months
• Funding: £18,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
• Job titles include:
  • Audiovisual Technician
  • Audiovisual Internal Event Technician
  • Audiovisual Support Technician
  • Collaboration and Audiovisual Experience Technician
  • Lighting and Audiovisual Technician

View more information about Audiovisual technician (level 5) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.