Where a video and motion picture director can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a video and motion picture director already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Video and motion picture directors are responsible for the overall production of a movie or television program. They edit and translate the script into audiovisual images. Video and motion picture directors supervise and manage the film crew. They convey their creative vision on the actors, audio and video equipment operators, lighting technicians, etc and direct them. Video and motion picture directors also supervise the editing of the footage.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 62%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 2difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 44required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- camera operator 44% covered · difficulty 62.5
- stage director 40% covered · difficulty 59.6
- stand-in 38% covered · difficulty 60.3
- storyboard artist 33% covered · difficulty 66.3
- set buyer 32% covered · difficulty 63.9
- production designer 31% covered · difficulty 69
- boom operator 30% covered · difficulty 66.9
- animation layout artist 29% covered · difficulty 75
- post-production supervisor 29% covered · difficulty 65.8
- assistant video and motion picture director 28% covered · difficulty 65.6
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video and motion picture director is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a video and motion picture director already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.