During this Lecture we were given some statistics regarding the number of People employed under different industries, the below illustrates the key industries that are relevant to this course:
Employment Figures - TV + Radio - 100,000
Music, visual and performing arts - 280,000
Games/ software development etc - 723,000
I was quite shocked by the significant difference between TV and Radio and the more electronic based Industry of Games. 600,000 more employees work in this industry than in Television. It's made me consider keeping my options open, whilst I do really like the idea of working in TV, if there aren't any jobs going, it would be good to still have the option of applying to a slightly different field. It shows that despite 'Games' having a reputation of targeting a 'niche' audience, they infact sell incredibly well and are a good source of business and creativity.
This is further illustrated in the stats for the number of businesses in general under each Industry in the UK.
Video, Photography + Film - 11,000
TV + Radio = 6,000
Games - 75,000
Despite this though Game Designers are constantly being enticed to move to Canada due to the Tax breaks for animation and games.
In order to utilise the UK and stop film companies going abroad to shoot, Screen Yorkshire
are prompting people to film up north, to increase Yorkshire and the UK's publicity as well as illustrating we have the resources here.
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