Media designers for images and sound produce image and sound products. They work predominantly in television and sound studios, for remote transmissions, as part of a recording team and in post-production as well as for the transmission process.
Occupational skills
Media designers for images and sound are responsible for
- supporting the realisation of editorial and media concepts
- selecting implementation options taking technical, design, efficiency and legal aspects into account
- coordinating production processes and creating production documents
- selecting appliances, setting up production systems, and detecting and rectifying faults and malfunctions
- researching image and sound material in databases and archives, checking, preparing and processing image and sound material, administering memory environments and conducting standard and format conversions
- recording images and sound according to editorial and design requirements
- processing images and sound according to editorial and design requirements
- conducting productions under live conditions
- documenting project processes, and creating accompanying media and invoice data
