ABSTRACT

The first 20 years of the twenty-first century have seen a flourishing of research about women film and media creatives, their industrial positioning, and media output in industries around the globe, but overwhelmingly this research has focussed on the woman director. Women below-the-line workers, their workplace experiences, and their impression of their own creative contributions, particularly in areas of editing, sound design, and visual effects, have been glaringly absent. This paper aims to spotlight the under-examined working conditions and creative contributions of women working in Australian postproduction and visual effects (VFX) areas, what their experiences and perceptions tell us about the sector more broadly at a time of decreasing job security and increasing demand for screen content since the time of COVID-19, and their perceptions about their own creative contributions. These findings are based on our analysis of semi-structured interviews that we carried out with 11 women workers in a range of geographical locations, of varying ethnicities, sexualities, and ages, and at different career points. The insights generated by these interviews speak to the challenges faced by these workers and their perceptions of their work and fill a gap in the feminist production studies literature, about women, postproduction, and VFX.

摘要

21 世纪的前 20 年，关于女性电影和媒体创意、她们的行业定位以及全球各行业的媒体产出的研究蓬勃发展，但绝大多数研究都集中在女性导演身上。女性的线下工作者，她们的工作经历，以及她们对自己的创造性贡献的印象，特别是在剪辑、声音设计和视觉效果领域，都明显缺席。本文旨在重点关注在澳大利亚后期制作和视觉效果 (VFX) 领域工作的女性的工作条件和创造性贡献，她们的经验和看法告诉我们在工作保障减少和需求增加的情况下更广泛地了解该行业对于自 COVID-19 以来的屏幕内容，以及他们对自己的创造性贡献的看法。这些发现是基于我们对不同地理位置、不同种族、性别和年龄以及不同职业阶段的 11 名女工进行的半结构化访谈的分析。这些采访产生的见解说明了这些工人面临的挑战以及他们对工作的看法，并填补了女权主义制作研究文献中关于女性、后期制作和视觉特效的空白。