Where Are They Now? Career Sustainability and Australian Web-Series Producers
Description
Over the last decade, several professionalising amateur Australian content creators making popular web series distributed on multiple open platforms broke into the television industry and have since developed promising professional careers. The limited scholarly research into the career trajectories
and sustainability of web series creators has typically been conducted as normative critique of the value of web series labour. In contrast, we look processually and empirically at the career trajectories of 26 creators following their first publicly funded web series between 2011 and 2020. The creators’ pathways are varied, but web series facilitated a pathway to career sustainability
for roughly three quarters of the cohort. Web series functioned as (1) a calling card for native online creators, (2) a format facilitating career consolidation or acceleration for television professionals and (3) a format enabling career diversification for filmmakers. Overall, they can be a market-tested talent training ground for television, especially broadcaster-video-on-demand or
subscription-video-on-demand services.
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ID Code: | 236790 | ||||
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Item Type: | Contribution to Journal (Journal Article) | ||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||
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Additional Information: | Funding Information: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (grant no. LP180100626). | ||||
Measurements or Duration: | 18 pages | ||||
Keywords: | Australian television, career sustainability, post-broadcast television, web series | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1329878X221114484 | ||||
ISSN: | 1329-878X | ||||
Pure ID: | 115642746 | ||||
Divisions: | Current > Research Centres > Digital Media Research Centre Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice Current > Schools > School of Creative Practice Current > Schools > School of Communication |
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Funding Information: | The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (grant no. LP180100626). | ||||
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Copyright Owner: | The Author(s) 2022. | ||||
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Deposited On: | 09 Dec 2022 02:51 | ||||
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 13:41 |
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