Brereton, Jude, Jones, Bethan, Reeve, Carlton, Zborowski, James and Bramwell-Dicks, Anna
2025.
Play your way into production: game-based skills development for the film and TV industry.
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10.1080/15405702.2025.2486773
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Abstract
Screen industry employers report that they are unable to recruit graduates with the right skills for entry-level roles in film and television, citing a lack of business awareness and various “soft skills” as barriers to employment. Traditionally, such knowledge and skills are obtained through in-person work experience on set, but work experience is usually unpaid and therefore inaccessible to many. However, recent research in the use of applied/serious games has indicated that situational skills training can be facilitated through these approaches. This article offers an analysis of the design process behind a game-based learning intervention and offers preliminary results, drawing on questionnaire responses, interviews and an autoethnographic account. We argue that a serious game can function as a meaningful intervention, allowing potential new entrants to the screen industry to understand the tasks and duties of particular job roles and improve access to the development of skills and knowledge.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Published Online |
| Status: | In Press |
| Schools: | Schools > Journalism, Media and Culture |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
| ISSN: | 1540-5702 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 1 May 2025 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 24 March 2025 |
| Last Modified: | 07 May 2025 11:15 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178007 |
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