Source: Occupational Information Network (O*Net Online)

Design sets for theatrical, motion picture, and television productions.

Tasks

• Integrates requirements including script, research, budget, and available locations to develop design.
• Presents drawings for approval and makes changes and corrections as directed.
• Selects furniture, draperies, pictures, lamps, and rugs for decorative quality and appearance.
• Confers with heads of production and direction to establish budget, schedules, and discuss design ideas.
• Directs and coordinates set construction, erection, or decoration activities to ensure conformance to design, budget, and schedule requirements.
• Assigns staff to complete design ideas and prepare sketches, illustrations, and detailed drawings of sets, or graphics and animation.
• Examines dressed set to ensure props and scenery do not interfere with movements of cast or view of camera.
• Reads script to determine location, set, or decoration requirements.
• Estimates costs of design materials and construction, or rental of location or props.
• Researches and consults experts to determine architectural and furnishing styles to depict given periods or locations.

Knowledge

• Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Fine Arts — Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
• Building and Construction — Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

Find Design Schools

Skills

• Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Management of Financial Resources — Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Management of Material Resources — Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Abilities

• Visualization — The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• Visual Color Discrimination — The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
• Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Mathematical Reasoning — The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• Number Facility — The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.

Work Activities

• Thinking Creatively — Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.
• Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information — Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work — Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Drafting, Laying Out, and Specifying Technical Devices, Parts, and Equipment — Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others — Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks.
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People — Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Scheduling Work and Activities — Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

Interests

• Artistic — Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.
• Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery.
• Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Work Values

• Achievement — Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
• Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employs to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity,
• Responsibility and Autonomy.

Related Occupations

Landscape Architects
Museum Technicians and Conservators
Art Directors
Commercial and Industrial Designers
Fashion Designers
Interior Designers
Exhibit Designers
Costume Attendants

http://online.onetcenter.org