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Feature Film Production Workforce Survey Report 2005

Please note the results of the Feature Film Production Workforce Survey 2008 will soon be published on our website. 

The Skillset / UK Film Council 2005 Film Production Workforce Survey, which targeted all people having worked on UK productions during the course of one year, suggests a number of challenges for those running the industry, and policy-makers in the public arena alike.

Findings included: the film production sector is older, has higher numbers of men compared to women, and earns more than the wider audio visual workforce.

A significant result was that increasingly, film production has no stable workforce of its own but borrows from the wider audio visual labour market as and when need arises.

Three quarters of respondents had worked on other types of production during the past year (mainly television and commercials), and less than half had spent more than 30 weeks of the year working on feature films.

Strikingly, nearly three quarters had also been unemployed in the past year - over a third for more than 10 weeks. While actually working in film though, the working day tends to be very long - nearly three quarters of respondents reported average working days of 11 hours or more.

The full report can be downloaded below, and has been broken down into sections for convenience:

  1. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Introduction
  2. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Section 1
  3. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Section 2
  4. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Section 3
  5. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Section 4
  6. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Section 5
  7. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Section 6
  8. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Section 7
  9. Adobe Acrobat DocumentFilm Workforce Survey 2005 - Appendix

    10. You can also read the full press release here.

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