Identify and approve equipment and elements required for productions, such as scenery, lights, props, costumes, choreography, and music.

“Identify and approve equipment and elements required for productions, such as scenery, lights, props, costumes, choreography, and music.” is a core task performed by Producers and Directors. Among the occupation's 30 rated tasks, workers place it 18th by importance (#13 most important). About 83% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Select materials or equipment for operations or projects. in Making Decisions and Solving Problems

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Plan details such as framing, composition, camera movement, sound, and actor movement for each shot or scene. · importance 4.4
• Communicate to actors the approach, characterization, and movement needed for each scene in such a way that rehearsals and takes are minimized. · importance 4.4
• Direct live broadcasts, films and recordings, or non-broadcast programming for public entertainment or education. · importance 4.3
• Research production topics using the internet, video archives, and other informational sources. · importance 4.3
• Study and research scripts to determine how they should be directed. · importance 4.2
• Review film, recordings, or rehearsals to ensure conformance to production and broadcast standards. · importance 4.2
• Supervise and coordinate the work of camera, lighting, design, and sound crew members. · importance 4.2
• Confer with technical directors, managers, crew members, and writers to discuss details of production, such as photography, script, music, sets, and costumes. · importance 4.1
• Write and submit proposals to bid on contracts for projects. · importance 4.0
• Perform management activities, such as budgeting, scheduling, planning, and marketing. · importance 4.0
• Consult with writers, producers, or actors about script changes or "workshop" scripts, through rehearsal with writers and actors to create final drafts. · importance 3.9
• Compose and edit scripts or provide screenwriters with story outlines from which scripts can be written. · importance 3.9
• Establish pace of programs and sequences of scenes according to time requirements and cast and set accessibility. · importance 3.9
• Conduct meetings with staff to discuss production progress and to ensure production objectives are attained. · importance 3.8

See all tasks on the Producers and Directors page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-22525,
  title  = {Identify and approve equipment and elements required for productions, such as scenery, lights, props, costumes, choreography, and music.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-22525}
}