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Welcome to Week 1: what are the Screen Industries?

This week we’ll discuss what the screen industries are, and how they have changed over time.

Welcome to the first week of ‘Lights, Camera, Computer – Action! How Digital Technology is Transforming Film, TV, and Gaming’.

This week we’ll discuss what the screen industries are, and how they have changed over time.

We’ll discover how digital technology has developed, so that we can now seemingly watch whatever we want, wherever we are at the touch of a button.

We’ll be considering diversity and representation on screen, (and off screen) and finding out about the different roles involved in making tv, film, games or digital media.

And if you are interested in starting, or moving to, a career in the industry we’ll look at how you can develop the skills needed.

But first of all, in the very next step we’ll start by thinking about what you watch.

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