This report, prepared by Oxford Economic Forecasting (OEF), provides a comprehensive evaluation of the economic contribution of the UK film industry. The purpose of undertaking this study is to inform the government consultation on the fiscal support regime for the UK film industry, published on 29 July 2005.

The specific economic impacts we have focused on in this study are those which arise in the UK from the activities of companies and/or individuals employed in the:

• different stages of film production in the UK (including pre- and post-production);

• distribution of UK-made films; and

• exhibition of UK-made films.

The key point to note here concerns the distribution and exhibition categories specifically, the economic activity associated with the distribution and exhibition of films made abroad is not included in our definition of the UK film industry. While the economic impacts associated with all of the activities of the film production sector in the UK – whether on UK or non-UK films – are set out in this report, we only include activity in the distribution and exhibition sectors related to UK qualifying films.

A UK film is currently defined as any film which is certified UK by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) (see Section 3.2 for a description of the full definition).

The reason for making this distinction is to focus on the benefits that follow from having a UK-based film infrastructure industry which would be lost if all films shown in the UK were made in other countries.

The general approach we use in the study is, firstly, to present the economic impact associated with activity related to UK films only (ie after making suitable adjustments to remove the activity associated with the distribution/exhibition of films made abroad) and then, secondly, to present the figures for the overall activity from the film industry in the UK.

In conducting the study, we have been mindful of the different elements in the value chain of the film industry. In particular, we use a definition of the film industry which has been commonly used in other studies, surveys and literature, disaggregating the industry into the following four segments:

• Development and Pre-production: rights (eg IP creation); planning, writing, direction and casting.

• Production: cast (eg costume, make-up, props sales/rental); location (eg stage and studio rental and equipment; location management and catering; set production, electrical skills); and film and sound (eg equipment rental and sales, camera operations, sound recording and mixing, animation, visual effects).

• Post-production: including editing, music, sound, and post-production computer generated imagery (CGI).

• Distribution/Exhibition: film duplication; cinema distribution of UK-made films; and secondary distribution of UK-made films (video, DVD, TV sales, online etc).

This research builds on a study recently undertaken for the UK Film Council by Optima/Cambridge Econometrics4 (CE) which assesses the size of the screen industries in the UK (film, TV, corporate video and commercials/advertising), disaggregated by nation and region, and the economic multipliers associated with these four screen
industries.

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