Each week I look at a different topic around the film industry, focusing on the data and statistics which reveal what’s going on.
This is the fourth in my carefully-planned trilogy of articles about film schools. I have collected some statistics and links to help wannabe film students work out “Should I go to film school?”. I’m also proud to launch an entirely free database of the film schools and courses I found while carrying out this research. What current students […]
A few years ago I wrote a piece about the big increase in film students in the UK, showing how the number of UK film students grew by 240% between 2004 and 2012. Not only is the number of film students increasing, there is more of a focus towards practical film courses. Production-based courses rose by 589% 2004-12, meaning […]
Today I am sharing the second part of an investigation I performed into UK film schools and courses. Part one last week looked at the number of film schools and qualifications on offer and next week I’ll be sharing more of the opinions of UK film students. I looked at all film courses in the […]
As regular readers will know, I have a strong interest in film education. In the film industry there are few formal barriers to entry, many paths to a career and strong competition among the large number of new entrants. This creates a much more muddy situation when it comes to vocalising education than is the […]
To many, working in the film and television industry can sound a little nutty. Many job advertisements seem to read… Compliant drone needed to work long hours for low pay under unpleasant conditions. Must be willing to drop everything at short notice in return for no job security, no pension and fewer than one lunch […]
This week I took a look at independent filmmaking in the UK, to see what films are being made and what connections filmmakers are looking to form. To do this, I analysed a year’s worth of jobs on the community site Shooting People. I have been a member for over a decade and have used them many […]
Today’s article is a bit more complex than usual but it started with a simple question… In last week’s article I crunched the numbers on the average number of credits UK writers, producer, director and actors have. I calculated these based on UK films made since 2003 on over £500,000 and on UK films made […]
Thanks to the BFI, I’ve managed to build a list of all the UK films budgeted at over £500k since 2003 and all the UK films budgeted at under £500k since 2008. That’s 2,737 feature films in total. I’m starting to crunch the numbers on this large dataset and in the coming weeks I’ll share […]
Last week I published figures for the huge growth in the UK Film sector in the last decade. This sparked a number of people to contact me and ask about if this boom is mirrored in the number of people studying film in higher education. The short answer is, kinda. There has certainly been a […]
