Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

• Editing video for broadcast productions, including non linear editing.
• Setting up and performing live shots for broadcast.
• Assembling studio sets and selecting and arranging cameras, film stocks, audio, or lighting equipment to be used during filming.
• Testing, cleaning, maintaining, and repairing broadcast equipment, including testing microphones, for ensuring proper working conditions.
• Staying current with new technologies in the field by reading trade magazines.
• Setting up and operating electric news gathering (ENG) microwave vehicles to gathering and editing raw footage on location for sending to television affiliates for broadcast.
• Directing studio productions.
• Designing graphics for studio productions.
• Writing new scripts for broadcasts.
• Operating television or motion picture cameras for recording scenes for television broadcasts, advertising, or motion pictures.
• Composing and framing each shot, applying the technical aspects of light, lenses, film, filters, and camera settings for achieving the effects sought by directors.