What is the current employment situation in the directing profession?

At present, the film and television industry, especially the television industry, has become a sunset industry - fewer and fewer audiences, more and more channels and programs, and increasingly fierce market competition among peers. The salary of employees has not been improved for many years (because of the rise in prices, so the salary has not been improved, that is, it has gradually decreased, this must be known!) Although from the surface, it is still a failure, but the general trend is indeed very bad. good. In 2006, CCTV laid off employees, and in 2007, although BTV did not explicitly lay off employees, it secretly fired many people, including many senior TV people who had been in the industry for many years.

The directing profession follows the market and is generally in decline.

As far as TV stations are concerned, the ratings and advertising revenue of each station are currently growing very slowly, so the development of programs is also slowing down. In the past few years, when new programs and channels continued to appear, as long as the director was talented, there was plenty of room for development. Nowadays, programs and positions are generally saturated. Older and more talented directors have long occupied the positions of editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief, and producer. New directors and directors, even if they are talented, have to endure at the bottom. On the one hand, there is a job recruitment, and there are dozens or even hundreds of applicants at every turn; on the other hand, producers constantly complain that it is difficult to find good directors. However, even if a good director is found, the budget of the program team often does not allow for good treatment.

From a company perspective, most program companies are now facing very difficult operations. On the one hand, advertisers have too many choices. A complete buyer's market leads to customers constantly lowering prices. Price competition makes the company's profits less than full. On the other hand, TV stations have increasingly higher requirements for program quality, and the film purchase fees or advertising space they provide are getting narrower and narrower. As a result, the company's cost of running programs has increased while sales channels have decreased. Therefore, if the program company wants to survive now, it must hire fewer people, and every person hired must be squeezed out to the fullest, so that one person can be used as a hundred. It's not easy to get in, and it's not easy to stay there for a long time. Although there are some directors in program companies with good incomes, the work pressure is generally very high and the work intensity is getting higher and higher. New directors and even some old directors who cannot adapt to this kind of pressure and intensity have a very high elimination rate. Many programs The company's directors are considering or have already changed careers.

So, it can be said responsibly that the employment situation of the director major is very pessimistic