STEM Career Opportunities in the UK Film Industry

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Yen YauTalent Development Manager

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The Bigger Picture

• Creative employment outpaces rest of economy

• The creative economy is one of the few industrial areas where the UK has a credible claim to be world–leading

• Equipping young people with transferable skills, 21st century skills.

• Skills shortageshttp://www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/uk-creative-overview

New figures reveal that the UK’s Creative Industries are now worth £84.1 billion per year to the UK economy (DCMS, Jan 2016)

•UK’s Creative Industries grew by 8.9 per cent in 2014 - almost double UK economy as a whole

•UK’s Creative Industries generate nearly £9.6million per hour

•2016 set to be another blockbuster year for UK’s music, film, video games, TV and publishing sectorshttp://www.thecreativeindustries.co.uk/uk-creative-overview/news-and-

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Some StatisticsKey Findings•The UK’s creative economy had 2.6 million jobs in 2013, consisting of 1.7 million jobs in the creative industries.

•The UK’s high–tech economy had 3.2 million jobs in 2013, 2.4 million of which were jobs in high–tech industries (825,000 in STEM occupations)

•Employment in the creative economy grew on average over three times faster than the workforce as a whole (4.3 per cent per annum (p.a.) vs 1.2 per cent p.a.) between 2011 and 2013.

•Employment in the high–tech economy also grew faster than the workforce over this period (2.1 per cent p.a. vs 1.2 per cent p.a.).

Creative Industries Strategy 2014

Creative Clusters Map (2016)

Skills needed by the film industry

• In-demand roles• Production Manager• 1st, 2nd & 3rd ADs• Costume Supervisors• Steadicam• DITs• Digital asset

management• Studio management• Script supervisors• 3D Rigging

• Priority skills• Make-up in HD• Wig application• Period hair• Prosthetics• Sound recording• Editing 3D• Pre-visualisation

Stages of making a film

Careers in Film Primary

Did you know that there are several stages to making a film?

design accounted for £131 million of services exported in 201110.

Award Winning VFX (visual effects)

Did you know…..

Routes InHistorically most of those entering the industry come in as university or private institute graduates but, as it's a young industry compared to the others in the creative industries, new entry routes are emerging.

Creative Skillset Tick that shows that degree courses are industry accredited. Runners don't tend to need any specific qualifications, but basic maths and English skills are recommended, along with a showreel or portfolio of work.

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Where is the science?

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Useful Websites

• BAFTA Guru• Double Negative• BBC Academy• Future Learn• Creative Skillset• BFI Academy

May 3, 2023

www.principia.org.uk@spacegovuk

Careers in space

Film and Science

Robotics, NASA and Film

Possible careersEngineers - mechanical and electrical, and technicians, to design and build spacecraft and instruments.

IT and software designers, mathematicians – developing software to control and monitor spacecraft, using space data to model complex systems for applications such as weather, navigation and communications

Scientists, researchers and technical specialists - in physics, geology, climatology, biology and many more subjects, designing experiments and using space data to learn more about the Earth, ourselves and the Universe.

In companies using space - from agriculture to resource exploration, disaster monitoring and risk evaluation, environmental protection to telecommunications, using physical sciences, maths and engineering

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What skills are important?• Being good at solving problems

• Being able to work well with other people, in teams

• Being able to communicate your ideas to other people

• Being proficient with numbers

• Being able to communicate well and with people from other cultures

• Languages

• Managing money and budgets

Credit: ISIC