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Professionals · code 2654

Film, stage and related directors and producers

Film, stage and related directors and producers oversee and control the technical and artistic aspects of motion pictures, television or radio productions and stage shows. Tasks include - (a) choosing writers, studying scripts to determine artistic interpretation, and instructing actors on acting methods; (b) directing all aspects of dramatic productions on stage, television, radio or in motion pictures, including choice of actors, and final decisions concerning costumes, set designs, sound or lighting effects; (c) planning, organizing and controlling the various stages and scheduling involved in the production of presentations, motion pictures, television shows and radio programmes; (d) engaging and supervising all technical personnel, and determining the treatment, scope and scheduling of production; (e) maintaining production archives and negotiating royalties; (f) creating, planning or writing scripts for recording, videotaping and editing programmes; (g) supervising the positioning of scenery, props and lighting and sound equipment. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Documentary director - Film editor - Motion picture director - Photography director - Stage director - Technical director - Technical television or radio director - Theatre producer Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - TV/radio news producer - 2642 - Broadcasting technician - 3521 - Lighting technician - 3521 - Sound technician - 3521 - Video technician - 3521 - Stage manager - 3435

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 290 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • post-production supervisor
  • producer
  • radio producer
  • video and motion picture editor

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

63.5
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 36.5 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 36.5 = 63.5

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

24.3
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 6 US jobs

21.5
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 32.2 · hand skill 26.6 · cramped spaces 5.6 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 24.3 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 45, while the average is 36.5. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 45

    Creating, planning, writing scripts for recording, videotaping and editing programmes

    Low
  2. 41

    Maintaining production archives and negotiating royalties

    Low
  3. 40.8

    Choosing writers, studying scripts to determine artistic interpretation, and instructing actors on acting methods

    Low
  4. 40.6

    Planning, organizing and controlling the various stages and scheduling involved in the production of presentations, motion pictures, television shows and radio programmes

    Low
  5. 32.3

    Engaging and supervising all technical personnel, and determining the treatment, scope and scheduling of production

    Low
  6. 28.8

    Supervising the positioning of scenery, props and lighting and sound equipment.

    Low
  7. 27.3

    Directing all aspects of dramatic productions on stage, television, radio or in motion pictures, including choice of actors, and final decisions concerning costumes, set designs, sound or lighting effects

    Low

7 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
68.5
AI does it for you
38.5

Helping wins by 30 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2121, 2123

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.3. This one is above that.