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Print and Graphic Arts
Rapidly changing technology is creating huge change throughout the printing and graphic arts industry. The Printing and Graphic Arts Training Package caters for new and emerging technologies and addresses current and future skill needs. Imagine trying to run a commercial business without the printing and graphic arts industries. Good luck marketing or selling your wares without office signage, point of sale material, merchandising, sales catalogues, newspaper or magazine advertisements, product packaging or even a corporate logo. Rapidly changing technology is creating huge change throughout the printing and graphic arts industry. Demand for some traditional occupations is on the decline while job opportunities in areas like digital production are expanding exponentially.
Multimedia Graphic Designer
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DESCRIPTION - Graphic artists have the ability to specialise in a number of fields including television, film and computer graphics; set and exhibition design; corporate design; book and magazine design; advertising and illustration. They may work as members of a design team in advertising agencies and design studios or alone undertaking consultancy or freelance work.



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Photographer
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DESCRIPTION - Areas of specialisation for photographers include press, fashion, scientific, commercial, industrial, medical, portrait, wedding, advertising and architectural surveying.

DUTIES -
  • Operate a range of cameras, lights and light-measuring devices
  • Work out the camera angle, light positions, exposure and composition
  • Offer technical solutions to illustrative problems
  • Advise on photographic approaches and the selection of locations, props, models and colour coordination
  • Use computers for such things as image manipulation and the production of visual images in print or digital form
  • Mix chemicals, process film and make enlarged prints.
WORK ENVIRONMENT - Photographers stand most of the time and often carry heavy equipment. They may work on location or in a studio and sometimes in darkrooms when developing film.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
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  • Artistic flair
  • Able to learn the technical aspects of photography
  • Self-motivated, with initiative and problem-solving skills
  • An interest in contemporary styles and trends in such things as graphics, architecture and fashion is an advantage
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