Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 1991

• F - Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
• F1 - Technical Occupations in Art, Culture, Recreation and Sport
• F12 - Photographers, Graphic Arts Technicians and Technical Occupations in Motion Pictures, Broadcasting and the Performing Arts

F125 - Audio and Video Recording Technicians

Occupations in this unit group are primarily concerned with operating equipment to record, mix and edit sound, music and videotape, for motion pictures, television and radio programs, videos, recordings and live events. Audio and video recording technicians are employed by film, video and concert production companies, sound recording firms, and by radio and television networks and stations.

• Example Titles

  • Audio recording operator
  • Audio recording technician
  • Audio studio operator
  • Operator, sound-recording-equipment
  • Post production technician, sound, video
  • Pre-recorded video editor
  • Radio recorder
  • Re-recording mixer
  • Sound effects technician
  • Sound recording cutter
  • Sound recording editor
  • Sound recording engineer
  • Sound recording man / woman
  • Sound recording mixer
  • Sound recording room technician
  • Sound-recording-equipment operator
  • Video editor
  • Video recording engineer
  • Video recording equipment operator
  • Video recording room technician
  • Video recording technician
  • Videotape editor
  • Videotape operator
  • Videotape recorder (V.T.R.) operator

• Exclusion

  • Broadcast technicians who are concerned with the actual transmission of radio and television broadcasts (See F124 Broadcast Technicians)
  • Television, video and motion picture camera operators (See F122 Film and Video Camera Operators)