Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film

58% (Moderate Risk)

Moderate Risk (41-60%): Occupations with a moderate risk of automation usually involve routine tasks but still require some human judgment and interaction.

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Wages

Moderately paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film' was $61,800, or $29 per hour

'Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film' were paid 28.6% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

Comments

Noof (Highly likely) 7 months ago

Focal marking and framing is already automated in many studios. Watched layoffs take this out over the last 10 years already. Soon it'll be film.

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Mariusz (Moderate) 2 years ago

I believe image upscaling, deepfake possibilities, and 3d scanning might in the future help AI to recreate hyperrealistic virtual reality based by data scanned by smartphones and animate it.

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anonymous (Moderate) 2 years ago

Some aspects of camera operating and cinematography will be replaced by robots and AI. Particularly in the the more "creative" non-fiction fields as video generation from AI programs like DALLE-2 is only going to get better and easier to get it to do what you want.

Large chunks of productions are already left up to post, with MARVEL films having massive sections of their films which are completely finished in a computer. But there are certain real world aspects of cinematography and camera operating such as documentary and news coverage where there is no physical way to replace the DP or Director right now.

The AI or Robot would have to physically take a human form to talk and interview real world subjects, which will eventually happen, but not in the next 10-20 years

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Sprankler Sabboth 2 years ago

Not exactly how an AI is gonna film events, music videos, weddings, even shorts. Maybe when they are robots and can move in the 3d world

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James (Moderate) 3 years ago

Digital environments and completely digital production will drastically reduce the costs of filmmaking and will eliminate the need for real-world camera movement systems and operators.

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Emmanuel Pleasant (No chance) 5 years ago

The ability to do this certain job requires creativity, imagination, and certain technical skills. Without these things, the cinematographic film will never be as good if a robot does the job.

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Le Reckless French Badger 5 years ago

Don't worry we can lower your standards... And that is what we have seen in the past? With the lock down we have also seen that the audience worldwide does tolerate poorly framed and badly lit, self recorded program with a webcamish feel as long as it provided a sens of immediacy?
Emmanuel Pleasant, still I do agree with you... certain job won't do without the human being being in control but I do expect a lot scaling down in quality. Filmmaking is more accessible than it ever has been : the good, the bad & the ugly...

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