Almost any film or TV production has a producer at its centre. The producer leads the process of turning ideas or scripts into finished work with the potential for commercial success.

Producers may:

Publishing commissioning editors work for book publishing companies, identifying the sort of books and related products that people want to buy and ensuring that their company can publish the right products to meet these demands.

The work involves:

Television and film camera operators create and capture moving images for feature films, commercials, corporate productions, and the whole range of television programmes, including drama, news and outside broadcasts. They work with sophisticated camera equipment and accessories.

A camera operator's duties vary according to the production, but may include:

Broadcast journalists are the faces and voices of news and current affairs programmes. They also work behind the scenes, gathering news and writing scripts.

They must marry their journalistic skills with an ability to present each story through the most telling sounds or pictures.

Their daily tasks might include:

Directors have overall creative responsibility for a film or television production. They take the decisions which turn the written script into what we see on the screen. They may:

Copy editors make sure that an author's text (or copy) is ready for publication, by checking that it is clear, easy to read, factually accurate, and grammatically correct.

They work on a range of publications, including books, journals, newspapers and magazines and on websites.

They may:

Music that is played and recorded is also published. Songs and musical compositions are managed by music publishers who focus on building a catalogue of songs or musical compositions by discovering new writers or by acquiring the rights to existing songs or compositions.

A music publisher pays the songwriter or composer a percentage of the earnings resulting from a variety of uses of their songs or compositions, including recordings, public performance, production of printed music and the use of music by other users, including filmmakers and advertisers.

Professional photographers create permanent visual images for a wide range of purposes, from family portraits, fashion, food, and crime scenes, to medical and scientific records. They usually specialise in one area, such as newspapers, advertising, editorial, fashion, forensic, scientific, medical, or general practice, and the work and rewards vary accordingly.

The work involves:

Event organisers are responsible for planning events and ensuring that they run as smoothly as possible. They work on:

People working in public relations (PR) look after an organisation's image and reputation. They help to build and maintain good relationships with the media and with the organisation's public such as their customers, suppliers, investors and employees.

PR is part of the marketing and communications mix. It covers areas such as corporate communications, media relations or public affairs. People practising PR might work in-house for an organisation, or as an account executive within a consultancy with numerous clients.

Duties may include: