Work Environment
Lighting technicians employed in television normally work a 40-hour week and change jobs only as their experience makes advancement possible. Technicians in the motion picture industry are often employed for one production at a time and thus may work less regularly and under a more challenging variety of conditions than light technicians in television studio work.
Technicians often work long days, especially when a film is on a tight schedule or when news teams are covering a late-breaking story. Technicians may travel a good deal to be on location for filming. They work both indoors in studios and outdoors on location, in a variety of weather conditions.
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