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Navy NEC · Communications

A05A Multimedia Director/Producer

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

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Overview

A multimedia director and producer plans, coordinates, and supervises coverage of events, exercises, and operations to meet public affairs and commander communication objectives. The director leads motion media crews, serves as an on screen crew chief and senior editor, determines production requirements, directs controlled productions, and trains personnel in broadcast journalism and advanced multimedia techniques.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • Event coverage aligned with communication objectives
  • Script analysis and scene composition
  • Audio capture and performer coordination
  • Set design and prop approval

Civilian Career Paths

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Producers and Directors

Planning event coverage, directing motion-media crews, revising scripts, and coordinating scene action transfer directly to civilian production and direction.

How to prepare: Build a production portfolio pairing finished work with script revisions, scene plans, and a clear account of your directing responsibilities.

What the civilian work involves
  • Plan details such as framing, composition, camera movement, sound, and actor movement for each shot or scene.
  • Direct live broadcasts, films and recordings, or non-broadcast programming for public entertainment or education.
  • Study and research scripts to determine how they should be directed.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe After Effects

Film and Video Editors

Serving as senior editor for motion-media productions provides direct overlap with assembling footage and shaping finished video stories.

How to prepare: Create an editing reel with a before-and-after sequence demonstrating shot selection, continuity, and dialogue or sound integration.

What the civilian work involves
  • Organize and string together raw footage into a continuous whole according to scripts or the instructions of directors and producers.
  • Edit films and videotapes to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, to arrange films into sequences, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.
  • Select and combine the most effective shots of each scene to form a logical and smoothly running story.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Adobe Creative Cloud software
  • Adobe After Effects

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC A05A

    [1] NEC entry "A05A - Multimedia Director/Producer"; cached text line 1192; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Event coverage aligned with communication objectives, Script analysis and scene composition, Audio capture and performer coordination, Set design and prop approval, Producers and Directors (O*NET 27-2012.00), Film and Video Editors (O*NET 27-4032.00)

  2. O*NET: Producers and Directors

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Producers and Directors (O*NET 27-2012.00)

  3. O*NET: Film and Video Editors

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Film and Video Editors (O*NET 27-4032.00)

Defense contractor jobs for A05A

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