Broadcasting
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Broadcasting (放送) is planning, scheduling, or producing broadcast programs and transmitting them to the public using telecommunications facilities. Broadly, broadcasting can be divided into television broadcasting, radio broadcasting, and data broadcasting.
Broadcast production process and related jobs
| Job title | Role and duties |
| Program writer | Also called a scripter; in TV or radio entertainment or educational programs, handles everything from planning, structuring, and booking guests to writing scripts together with the producer |
| Drama writer | A writer who writes dramas |
| Stuntman | Appears as a double or a character in broadcast dramas and the like. Performs dangerous acts in place of the lead, such as jumping from a moving car or horse |
| Sports caster | Broadcasts sporting events live on location or in recorded broadcasts. |
| Broadcast PD | The chief producer who directs everyone involved in a broadcast and takes responsibility for producing the program. A job where it is hard to fulfill the role if any one of planning ability, directing ability, leadership, or the stamina to stay up for several nights is lacking |
| Voice actor | Performs voice acting in radio broadcasts, television broadcasts, film recording, puppet shows, and more. A voice actor's scope of work is very diverse, ranging from voice performer, foreign film dubbing, commercial dubbing, animated films, puppet shows, and documentary narration to disc jockey and radio DJ |
| Announcer | A person who hosts programs on TV or radio. Hosts not only news but also sports, entertainment, and educational programs. Performs duties related to reporting news or hosting entertainment, educational, current affairs, and music programs on radio or TV |
| Video | VJ (Video Journalist) was originally a term that referred to staff involved in producing |
| Journalist (VJ) | CNN's various news programs; a person who simultaneously handles filming and field directing, editing news scripts, operating the prompter (teleprompter), and playing back recorded film. In other words, a video journalist is an all-round broadcaster who single-handedly does reporting, filming, and editing |
| Stage makeup artist | Performs all duties related to making up actors to suit the content of a film, play, or TV production and the personality of the characters |
| TV actor | A person who appears as a character in plays, films, and TV dramas, acting according to the script and the director's direction |
| Projectionist | Adjusts and operates projectors and sound playback equipment to screen adjusted audio and video material at theaters, broadcasting stations, and the like |
| Audio and video equipment operator | Performs all related duties such as adjusting/operating the various equipment used to record, play back, and duplicate sound and video images for producing radio and TV broadcasts, films, records, and tapes. Divided into recording technician, sound recording technician, editor, sound effects technician, etc. depending on the type of equipment handled |
| Camera operator | Films objects and events using a film or video camera. Divided into film cinematographer, television camera operator, video camera operator, etc. depending on the purpose and subject area of filming |
| Lighting technician | Performs duties related to installing and adjusting lighting equipment for producing plays, films, dance, broadcast dramas, and the like |
| Broadcast DJ | Until now, mostly announcers hosted, but recently popular entertainers account for about 30% of radio show hosts |
| Makeup artist | Does makeup on the faces of broadcast performers to suit the mood |
| TV film translator | Since films shown on TV are translated and aired with voice actor dubbing, there is the constraint of matching the lines to the foreign actors' mouth movements. Screen translator - video translator, film translator, TV film translator |
| Camera operator (cameraman) | A magician of images who creates broadcast video. Those covering news strive for the ability to capture the moment, those covering dramas strive for artistic effect, and for more vivid shots, cameramen covering pro baseball even climb onto the scoreboard to film every aspect of the stadium |
| Lighting technician | Directs a three-dimensional art, a harmony of light and shadow. Lighting technicians, who install and use lighting fixtures to bring out a program's visual effects and atmosphere, are emerging as new visual artists |
| Broadcast musician | Creates broadcast music: through analysis of the work, decides what kind of music and musical material to use, composes and arranges to suit the music and scenes, and works together with various staff in directing, editing, effects, and more, through recording and final dubbing |
| Broadcast reporter | Covers news and current affairs for radio and television broadcasts |
| Technical engineer | A technical specialist who delivers footage shot as planned to viewers at home. Handles fine adjustment of equipment, from the series of broadcast interruptions commonly called 'broadcast accidents' to screen scratching |
| Broadcast journalist | A professional who performs key tasks in news and educational production |
| Set specialist | Stage installation director. For dramas, shows, educational programs, news, and talk programs, installs and builds the stage on which the program is run |