Arts officers
producers and directors
Arts officers, producers and directors assume creative, financial and organisational responsibilities in the production and direction of television and radio programmes, films, stage presentations, content for other media, and the promotion and exhibition of other creative activities.
- Employees (UK)
- 23k
- Median annual pay
- £39,643
- Exposure score ?
- 0.9/10 Minimal 8.9/10 Very high strict reading, with tools is 8.9/10 with-tools reading, strict is 0.9/10
- Wage exposure
- £82m £811m
Higher exposure than 50% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of this role's work is still hard for AI: physical presence, practised skill, judgement in context and direct care, the things that do not turn into text.
If you are in this role
Nothing here is under pressure today, but the frontier moves. Learn enough to direct AI at the paperwork around the job. People in hands-on roles who can do that become unusually useful inside their organisations.
Almost every routine task in this role is within reach of today's models. Roles like this are being rebuilt, usually not by disappearing but by one person using AI to produce what several did.
If you are in this role
Be the person doing the rebuilding. People who learn to run this kind of work with AI become very valuable, and the ones who wait tend to have the change made for them.
Where the work usually starts.
These are the most important tasks a language model can already handle directly. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around them, so they stop eating the team's time.
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Write and submit proposals to bid on contracts for projects.
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Consult with writers, producers, or actors about script changes or "workshop" scripts, through rehearsal with writers and actors to create final drafts.
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Compose and edit scripts or provide screenwriters with story outlines from which scripts can be written.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Plan details such as framing, composition, camera movement, sound, and actor movement for each shot or scene.
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Research production topics using the internet, video archives, and other informational sources.
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Review film, recordings, or rehearsals to ensure conformance to production and broadcast standards.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Producers and Directors" (27-2012.00).
What AI can already do
6 of 30 tasks, unaided
Write and submit proposals to bid on contracts for projects.
Consult with writers, producers, or actors about script changes or "workshop" scripts, through rehearsal with writers and actors to create final drafts.
Compose and edit scripts or provide screenwriters with story outlines from which scripts can be written.
Write and edit news stories from information collected by reporters and other sources.
Compile scripts, program notes, and other material related to productions.
Perform administrative duties, such as preparing operational reports, distributing rehearsal call sheets and script copies, and arranging for rehearsal quarters.
What still needs a person
24 of 30 tasks
Plan details such as framing, composition, camera movement, sound, and actor movement for each shot or scene.
Communicate to actors the approach, characterization, and movement needed for each scene in such a way that rehearsals and takes are minimized.
Direct live broadcasts, films and recordings, or non-broadcast programming for public entertainment or education.
Research production topics using the internet, video archives, and other informational sources.
Review film, recordings, or rehearsals to ensure conformance to production and broadcast standards.
Study and research scripts to determine how they should be directed.
Supervise and coordinate the work of camera, lighting, design, and sound crew members.
Confer with technical directors, managers, crew members, and writers to discuss details of production, such as photography, script, music, sets, and costumes.
Perform management activities, such as budgeting, scheduling, planning, and marketing.
Identify and approve equipment and elements required for productions, such as scenery, lights, props, costumes, choreography, and music.
Establish pace of programs and sequences of scenes according to time requirements and cast and set accessibility.
Conduct meetings with staff to discuss production progress and to ensure production objectives are attained.
Cut and edit film or tape to integrate component parts into desired sequences.
Choose settings and locations for films and determine how scenes will be shot in these settings.
Review film daily to check on work in progress and to plan for future filming.
Resolve personnel problems that arise during the production process by acting as liaisons between dissenting parties when necessary.
Negotiate with parties, including independent producers and the distributors and broadcasters who will be handling completed productions.
Coordinate the activities of writers, directors, managers, and other personnel throughout the production process.
Obtain rights to scripts or to such items as existing video footage.
Develop marketing plans for finished products, collaborating with sales associates to supervise product distribution.
Arrange financing for productions.
Hire principal cast members and crew members, such as art directors, cinematographers, and costume designers.
Hold auditions for parts or negotiate contracts with actors determined suitable for specific roles.
Select plays, scripts, books, news content, or ideas to be produced.
Tasks via O*NET "Producers and Directors" (27-2012.00).
What AI can already do
24 of 30 tasks, with tools
Plan details such as framing, composition, camera movement, sound, and actor movement for each shot or scene.
Research production topics using the internet, video archives, and other informational sources.
Review film, recordings, or rehearsals to ensure conformance to production and broadcast standards.
Study and research scripts to determine how they should be directed.
Confer with technical directors, managers, crew members, and writers to discuss details of production, such as photography, script, music, sets, and costumes.
Write and submit proposals to bid on contracts for projects.
Perform management activities, such as budgeting, scheduling, planning, and marketing.
Consult with writers, producers, or actors about script changes or "workshop" scripts, through rehearsal with writers and actors to create final drafts.
Compose and edit scripts or provide screenwriters with story outlines from which scripts can be written.
Identify and approve equipment and elements required for productions, such as scenery, lights, props, costumes, choreography, and music.
Establish pace of programs and sequences of scenes according to time requirements and cast and set accessibility.
Cut and edit film or tape to integrate component parts into desired sequences.
Write and edit news stories from information collected by reporters and other sources.
Compile scripts, program notes, and other material related to productions.
Choose settings and locations for films and determine how scenes will be shot in these settings.
Review film daily to check on work in progress and to plan for future filming.
Negotiate with parties, including independent producers and the distributors and broadcasters who will be handling completed productions.
Coordinate the activities of writers, directors, managers, and other personnel throughout the production process.
Perform administrative duties, such as preparing operational reports, distributing rehearsal call sheets and script copies, and arranging for rehearsal quarters.
Obtain rights to scripts or to such items as existing video footage.
Develop marketing plans for finished products, collaborating with sales associates to supervise product distribution.
Arrange financing for productions.
Hire principal cast members and crew members, such as art directors, cinematographers, and costume designers.
Select plays, scripts, books, news content, or ideas to be produced.
What still needs a person
6 of 30 tasks
Communicate to actors the approach, characterization, and movement needed for each scene in such a way that rehearsals and takes are minimized.
Direct live broadcasts, films and recordings, or non-broadcast programming for public entertainment or education.
Supervise and coordinate the work of camera, lighting, design, and sound crew members.
Conduct meetings with staff to discuss production progress and to ensure production objectives are attained.
Resolve personnel problems that arise during the production process by acting as liaisons between dissenting parties when necessary.
Hold auditions for parts or negotiate contracts with actors determined suitable for specific roles.
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What it means for your sector.
This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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