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Outside broadcasting engineer (integrated degree) (level 7)

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Information about Outside broadcasting engineer (integrated degree) (level 7)

Provides picture and sound coverage of an event.

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

  Knowledge

  • Venue acoustics, broadcast audio formats, noise regulations, loudness standards, microphone and cable types, audio desk controls and signal processing.
  • Video paths, colour-matching, vision mixer systems, vision processing, fibre optic systems and signals.
  • Video and audio recording systems, integration of edit choices, timecode, codecs, wrappers, file formats, processing, graphics and audio packaging
  • Site management, reporting and communication. Personal Protective Equipment requirements. Location and event related constraints on the OB.
  • Electrical supply types, generator or venue power connection, load management, equipment power supplies, weather effects on power.
  • Types of camera mountings, lenses and panning heads. Camera systems, formats and accessories. Awareness of camera use and shot composition.
  • Different lighting luminaires, fixings and mounts, LED and projector screens. Lighting levels, lighting problems and their solutions.
  • Video and audio signals, levels & compression. Radio waves, antennas and the dB scale. Digital transmission systems. Delays from digital encoding. Frequency Management and regulation.
  • Addressing protocols, compression algorithms for video / audio transport, external network storage systems and bandwidth bottlenecks.

  Skills

  • Set up microphones, find technical faults, use talkback kits, edit sound.
  • Rig monitors, set up video equipment, soldering and find technical faults.
  • Set up and test recording systems with associated cabling requirements. Make and repair cable connectors.
  • Rig cables, work at heights, work on a stage and the safety constraints of working with a crowd. Regulations and risk assessment.
  • Distribution and management of power supplies on location.
  • Cable bashing, camera set-up, camera use (zoom, focus, shot match), camera talkback.
  • Check picture exposure and colour vision, interpretation of mood and look required. Follow programme scripts and lighting cues.
  • Carry out site surveys and resulting documentation, rig and repair RF cables and use web browser interfaces and terminal server programs.
  • Configuring equipment to work with an existing network, using analysis tools to fault find and adding external storage systems.

  Behaviours

  • Show empathy to job roles in a media production environment.
  • Embracing the opportunities a location provides rather than fighting the constraints and challenges encountered.
  • Choosing the most appropriate language for a given situation – this encompasses talkback etiquette.
  • Thinking ahead, planning and asking questions to ensure the right level of preparedness of location.
  • Show sensitivity to the pressures of budget, time and location.
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Creative and design
• Qualification level: 7; Equal to master’s degree
• Course duration: 12 months
• Maximum funding: £9,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
• Job titles include:
  • unit managers
  • vision engineer
  • audio engineer
  • cameramen
  • cable riggers

View more information about Outside broadcasting engineer (integrated degree) (level 7) from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.