Lighting Technicians
A Lighting Technician sets up, maintains, and dismantles light fixtures, lighting control devices, and the associated lighting electrical and rigging equipment used for photography, television, film, video, and live productions. May focus or operate light fixtures, attach colour filters or other lighting accessories.
About this Career
Average Salary
£25,269New workers start at around £12,901. Normal pay is £25,269 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £45,889
Annual Openings
50Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons in London, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs
Daily Tasks
- Maintains, repairs, programs and operates unmanned aircraft to provide aerial photographs and video.
- Operates sound mixing and dubbing equipment to obtain desired mix, level and balance of sound.
- Manages health and safety issues.
- Operates equipment to record, edit and play back films and television programmes.
- Checks operation and positioning of projectors, vision and sound recording equipment, and mixing and dubbing equipment.
- Controls transmission, broadcasting and satellite systems for television and radio programmes, identifies and solves related technical problems.
- Takes, records and manipulates digital images and digital video footage.
- Photographs subject or follows action by moving camera.
- Operates scanning equipment to transfer image to computer and manipulates image to achieve the desired effect.
- Inserts lenses and adjusts aperture and speed settings as necessary.
- Arranges subject, lighting, camera equipment and any microphones.
- Selects subject and conceives composition of picture or discusses composition with colleagues.
Skills Employers are looking for
| Skills | Importance |
|---|---|
| Active Learning | 73% |
| Monitoring | 70% |
| Active Listening | 70% |
| Reading Comprehension | 67% |
| Critical Thinking | 66% |
| Speaking | 66% |
| Learning Strategies | 63% |
| Writing | 57% |
| Mathematics | 49% |
| Science | 39% |