CHRC BTL TGA - 11/14/2008 -Page 42) Recommendation - An on-line forum for below-<strong>the</strong>-line workers mustbe established, promoted, <strong>and</strong> maintained to enable <strong>the</strong> sharing ofperceived skills gaps, training needs, <strong>and</strong> to help forecast <strong>and</strong> preparefor evolving industry trendsCHRC BTL TGA - 11/14/2008 -Page 4
CHRC BTL TGA - 11/14/2008 -Page 52 INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE2.1. A Changing IndustryTo say that <strong>the</strong> industry is in <strong>the</strong> midst of tremendous flux is to state <strong>the</strong> obvious.Nowhere are <strong>the</strong> changes more evident than in below-<strong>the</strong>-line positions. Even <strong>the</strong>industry’s fundamental job <strong>des</strong>criptions are changing. New positions areappearing, like Digital Imaging, <strong>and</strong> jobs once relegated to post-production are nowon-set. Multi-platform content delivery is supplanting old TV <strong>and</strong> film paradigms.Hits can now be downloadable productions, mobiso<strong>des</strong>, webiso<strong>des</strong>, <strong>and</strong> soonperhaps live streaming productions made by a crew of one or two “creators”instead of <strong>the</strong> old hierarchical list of Departments, formal jobs represented by <strong>the</strong>various unions & guilds – Production, Assistant Director, Production Design,Camera, Sound, Grip & Electrics, Post-production. The industry must takestock <strong>and</strong> re-invent itself, build on its skills, its ways of providing training inparticular, in order to fit <strong>the</strong> jet-propelled, high octane world of new technology.Training Gap - There is one particular training gap that is all-pervasive in <strong>the</strong>industry - new technology. While <strong>the</strong> fundamental skills <strong>and</strong> aes<strong>the</strong>tic involved instory-telling through <strong>the</strong> juxtaposition of images <strong>and</strong> sound remain constant, <strong>the</strong>advent of new technology - HD, digital recording <strong>and</strong> editing, new means ofdistribution, etc. - affects every single position on a film crew. The deployment oftraining in <strong>the</strong>se new technologies has not kept up.2.2. Funding2.2.1. GovernmentThe most common observation among both Industry <strong>and</strong> Training Providerrespondents was <strong>the</strong> universal cry for more money to train workers. No singleplayer, nei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> unions & guilds, <strong>the</strong> professional organizations, <strong>the</strong> colleges <strong>and</strong>universities, <strong>the</strong> institutions, <strong>the</strong> coops, not even <strong>the</strong> government can foot <strong>the</strong>whole bill alone. That said, though <strong>the</strong> cultural industries historically are not <strong>the</strong>best at securing government money, with guidance from <strong>the</strong> industry, governmentcan help. Such instruments as provincial-federal Labour Market Agreements(LMAs) provide significant financing for training. Increased support for film & TVspecifically could result from effective representation from <strong>the</strong> industry <strong>and</strong> creativesolutions like matching public dollars with private contributions.New Brunswick <strong>Film</strong>, for example, specifically called for a realisticfederal/provincial tax credit/cost sharing program to help with training, specificallyon-set training.CHRC BTL TGA - 11/14/2008 -Page 5
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