Elements and Performance Criteria
- Apply screen and media skills in a specialist context
- Plan strategies to develop and enhance technical skills in a specialist screen or media context
- Use critical thinking techniques to identify work-based opportunities to enhance technical skills
- Identify and use feedback, discussion and evaluation techniques to continuously improve technical skills
- Explore capability of materials, tools and equipment as a means to continuously improve technical skills
- Identify and use relevant sources of information to stimulate technical skills and professional development opportunities
- Research and apply screen and media trends and emergent technologies
- Identify trends and emergent technologies in the screen and media industries using appropriate sources of information
- Examine and clarify implications and consequences of trends and emergent technologies
- Critique and review trends and emergent technologies with relevant personnel to explore, develop and express conceptual ideas
- Explore and use new ideas and emergent technologies to expand own technical and conceptual skills
- Evaluate own skills in specialist context
- Seek and apply constructive criticism from others to improve own technical and conceptual skills
- Continuously evaluate own technical skills against planned strategies and career goals
- Compare and contrast own technical skills to those of other specialist technicians in order to extend and enhance own professional work practices
- Adjust own professional work practices to improve and refine technical and conceptual skills