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What Broadcast, Sound, and Video Technicians Do
Broadcast, sound, and video technicians set up, operate, and maintain the electrical equipment for media programs.
Broadcast, sound, and video technicians typically work indoors in radio, television, movie, and recording studios. They may also work in hotels, arenas, offices, or schools.
Training Programs at SLCC
Training Programs at SLCC
67 Credits
The AAS in Media Music is designed to prepare students to work professionally as music producers, composers, songwriters and/or arrangers in the music and multimedia industries. In addition to a basic core of musical skills, students receive training and gain experience creating music using electronic and acoustic instruments for use in a variety of professional and commercial settings from film scores and commercial music productions to music for video games and other multimedia projects. They also receive training in business and entrepreneurship as it applies to the music industry and build a portfolio of projects that they can use to apply those entrepreneurship skills in pursuing work in the industry.
SLCC Music Recording Technology AAS
67 Credits
The Music Recording Technology AAS degree program will provide students with the required skills to perform high-level tasks in the music recording industry, the business skills to be successful entrepreneurs, and the opportunity to build a portfolio of projects that will demonstrate their skills and technical abilities. Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators perform a wide variety of tasks. Their duties include setting up, operating, and maintaining the electronic equipment used in nearly all radio and television broadcasts, concerts, plays, sound recordings, and movies. They also install and maintain audiovisual equipment in businesses, schools, homes, performance venues, and other settings. There are many specialized occupations in this field.
21 Credits
The MIDI Certificate of Proficiency is part of the Music program’s participation in the college-wide “stackable credentials” initiative to create certificates that reflect student achievement even when students have not completed an entire degree program. This certificate represents the MIDI-only portion of a proposed Media Music AAS degree and represents proficiency working with electronic instruments and the MIDI-based components of music technology-based software applications (specifically digital audio workstations).
Training Programs at UVU
Training Programs at UVU
64 Credits
The UVU AAS in Digital Audio is a powerful gateway into the fascinating world of album recording and mixing, location and post-production sound for film and video, audio restoration and forensics, live sound, radio production, gaming, and audio hardware and software design. Students will use industry-leading equipment including SSL, Audient, AVID ProTools, Universal Audio, Neumann, Waves, Tube Tech, AKG, and many others. By graduation, each student will have produced and engineered numerous music, ADR, Foley, and sound effects sessions, including professional-level mixes; will have their choice of many other areas of audio expertise; and will be professional employment-ready.
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