Elective Subject in Film and TV - Career
Teacher
About half of all graduates with film and TV as their subsidiary subject work as upper secondary schoolteachers, teachers of short programmes of higher education, and teachers at folk high schools, continuation schools, universities and business schools, etc.
The subsidiary subject in film and TV qualifies you to teach at upper secondary schools in the subject of the same name. However, this is an elective subject with very few teaching hours, and not all upper secondary schools offer film and TV as an elective subject. It is therefore a good idea to consider other job opportunities.
Information officer
Three out of ten graduates with film and TV as their subsidiary subject work as information officers in private or public sector companies, in public relations or advisory services or within the web and IT industry.
Media jobs
One out of ten graduates works with visual media – in administrative positions, as producers or media researchers.
You should note that there is a fairly high level of unemployment among graduates with film and TV as their subsidiary subject. In 2002, the rate of unemployment was almost 30%. There are no more recent surveys available.
For more information, see the employment survey.
Competence profile
A subsidiary subject in film and TV provides you with the following skills:
- Mastery of technical and aesthetic effects in film and TV production.
- The ability to think over theoretical approaches to the analysis of film and TV products.
- The ability to place film and TV products in an historical and societal context.
- The ability to assess how media expressions, different kinds of storytelling and genres influence target group considerations.
- The ability to describe, analyse and assess media productions and communicate the results both to the public and to private sector companies.
- Problem-solving with due respect for deadlines and fixed financial frameworks.
- Planning and teaching media subjects within youth and adult education.