"Audio-Visual Collections Specialist" - Part 1
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Basic Job Description:

Prepare, plan, and operate audio-visual teaching aids for use in education. May record, catalogue, and file audio-visual materials.

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Job Duties and Tasks for: "Audio-Visual Collections Specialist"

Set up, adjust, and operate audiovisual equipment such as cameras, film and slide projectors, and recording equipment, for meetings, events, classes, seminars and video conferences.

Offer presentations and workshops on the role of multimedia in effective presentations.

Attend conventions and conferences, read trade journals, and communicate with industry insiders in order to keep abreast of industry developments.

Instruct users in the selection, use, and design of audiovisual materials, and assist them in the preparation of instructional materials and the rehearsal of presentations.

Maintain hardware and software, including computers, scanners, color copiers, and color laser printers.

Confer with teachers in order to select course materials and to determine which training aids are best suited to particular grade levels.

Perform simple maintenance tasks such as cleaning monitors and lenses and changing batteries and light bulbs.

Develop manuals, texts, workbooks, or related materials for use in conjunction with production materials.

Direct and coordinate activities of assistants and other personnel during production.

Determine formats, approaches, content, levels, and mediums necessary to meet production objectives effectively and within budgetary constraints.

Acquire, catalog, and maintain collections of audiovisual material such as films, video- and audio-tapes, photographs, and software programs.

Narrate presentations and productions.

Construct and position properties, sets, lighting equipment, and other equipment.

Develop preproduction ideas and incorporate them into outlines, scripts, story boards, and graphics.

Plan and prepare audiovisual teaching aids and methods for use in school systems.

Produce rough and finished graphics and graphic designs.

Locate and secure settings, properties, effects, and other production necessities.