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A production artist is a technical and often considered an entry level job position in a creative profession. An entry-level job is a job that generally requires little skill and knowledge and is generally of a low pay There are many different definitions aimed at describing one of the newest media terms creative industries sometimes referred to as creative economy The job title originated at advertising agencies, assigning what was known as paste-up work (now prepress production) to the position. A job description is a list of the general tasks or functions and Responsibilities of a position An advertising agency or ad agency is a service Business dedicated to creating planning and handling Advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion Paste up refers to a method of creating or laying out publication pages that predates the use of the now-standard computerized page design Desktop publishing programs Prepress is the term used in the Printing and Publishing industries for the processes and procedures that occur between the procurement of a written manuscript and It's often assumed to be a graphic designer or art director in training position, similar to an apprenticeship. A graphic designer (also known as a graphic artist and communication designer) is a professional within the Graphic design and Graphic arts industry The term art director is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in Advertising, Publishing, film and Television, the Internet Apprenticeship is a system of Training a new generation of practitioners of a skill Production artists work closely with the designer and art director to execute the design. What distinguishes "production art" from design is the lack of opportunities to utilize creativity and design training in the work involved. Creativity is a mental process involving the generation of new Ideas or Concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts Design is used both as a Noun and a Verb. The term is often tied to the various Applied arts and Engineering (See design disciplines Although the position may be treated as low-skilled labor, the degree of technical knowledge required for some production art work may be comparable to higher skilled engineering, especially with computers.

The position was once exclusive to print media until creative services departments began to offer electronic media such as web pages and CD-ROMs. Printing is a process for reproducing text and image typically with ink on Paper using a printing press Creative services are a subsector of the Creative industries, a part of the economy that creates wealth by offering Creativity for hire to other businesses Electronic media are media that utilize Electronics or Electromechanical energy for the End user ( Audience) to access the content A web page or webpage is a resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a Web browser. CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable There have since been no standard skill requirements for a production artist other than a working knowledge in using the standard art software of creative industries. Graphic art software is a subclass of Application software used for Graphic design, Multimedia development specialized image development, general Job descriptions for production artists are usually tailored to a company's specific needs. Alternate job titles such as "multimedia specialist" have been used to expand the role of production artists to multimedia development. Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. Entry level multimedia work may include data entry or basic skill level programming tasks. A data entry clerk is a member of staff who reads hand-written or printed records and types them into a Computer.

This position requires an an encyclopedic knowledge of pre-press and printing standards through a variety of methods. It is often a higher paid position than a graphic designer, as it requires more technical knowledge.

Production assistant is a similar position in the film industry. A production assistant, also known as a PA, is an entry-level job title used in filmmaking and Television for a person responsible for various aspects The film industry consists of the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking i


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