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Audio and Video Technologies Pathway
Overview » Industry Pathways » Audio and Video Technologies 
Workers in the Audio and Video Technologies pathway are likely to enjoy:
- Working with cameras, lighting, audio equipment, and/or computers.
- Being creative, imaginative, and inventive.
- Being physically active and traveling on location, sometimes to remote sites.
- Working evenings or weekends to meet deadlines.
- Learning about new equipment, technology, and applications.
Audio and Video Technologies pathway tips:
- Become a volunteer producer at your local public access cable television station. Be sure to ask to learn about the equipment available at the station to gain valuable hands-on experience.
- Get on-the-job experience through an internship and post-secondary education or training in your area of interest.
The Audio and Video Technologies pathway contains a variety of careers based on specific knowledge, skills, and necessary educational requirements. Those who enter careers in this pathway tend to have strong interests in the technical side of audio and video productions.
They enjoy working with ideas and things to create special sounds and visual affects and inventing all sorts of ways to make something amazing come to life before your eyes. Through technology and computers, they may generate an army of millions using high-speed computer graphics. They can easily create a movie scene with cows, tractors, and farmhouses flying through the air in a tornado with you watching as if you were only a few yards away.
Careers in this pathway require exact work with much attention to detail. These workers turn illusion into reality. Their efforts are enjoyed in such products as computer games, movies, and music videos. They are the people who operate cameras, special lighting, and audio equipment to make the production so interesting you won’t want to change the channel or leave the theatre.
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