Drama Report Production of Feature Films and TV Drama in Australia 2012/13 $752 Million Total Production Expenditure up 9 Per Cent on Last Year
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Drama Report Production of feature films and TV drama in Australia 2012/13 $752 million total production expenditure Up 9 per cent on last year 27 Australian features $250 million 56 Australian TV dramas $372 million 14 foreign projects $130 million Producer Offset total value $140 million © Screen Australia 2013 ISBN: 978-1-920998-21-9 The text in this report is released subject to a Creative Commons BY licence (Licence). This means, in summary, that you may reproduce, transmit and distribute the text, provided that you do not do so for commercial purposes, and provided that you attribute the text as extracted from Screen Australia’s Drama Report 2012/13. You must not alter, transform or build upon the text in this report. Your rights under the Licence are in addition to any fair dealing rights which you have under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth). 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Cover image: Redfern Now Highlights CONTENTS Key terms 4 OVERVIEW 5 ALL DRAMA PRODUCTION 6 Production trends 7 AUSTRALIAN FEATURE SLATE – DOMESTIC AND CO-PRODUCTION TITLES 8 Feature budget ranges 8 Sources of finance for Australian features 9 AUSTRALIAN TV DRAMA SLATE – DOMESTIC AND CO-PRODUCTION TITLES 10 Programs for adults 13 Programs for children 14 Sources of finance for Australian TV drama 15 FOREIGN PRODUCTION 16 Features 16 TV drama 16 DRAMA PRODUCTION BY LOCATION 17 Expenditure by state 17 Location of production company 17 TITLES IN THE 2012/13 SLATE 18 PDV SERVICES – FEATURES AND TV DRAMA PRODUCTION 21 METHODOLOGY 23 ABOUT THE REPORT activity in Australia and the Offset’s 20 per cent of all audiovisual production in contribution to the annual slate. Data is Australia. Other areas of activity include The Drama Report covers the production presented for the past five years, 2008/09 to documentaries, light entertainment, of feature films and TV drama programs 2012/13. commercials, music videos, corporate videos (mini-series, telemovies and series/serials) by and TV productions such as sport, news and financial year. Foreign titles are included if they are shot (or substantially shot) in Australia, or have post, current affairs. See the statistics section It reports on the operation of the Producer digital or visual effects (PDV) work carried of the Screen Australia website for details, Offset tax rebate for domestic Australian out in Australia without shooting here. www.screenaustralia.gov.au/research/ projects and official co-productions, prod_industry.aspx, and the relevant archives See page 4 for definitions of ‘Australian’, incorporating data gathered through surveys for pre-2008/09 data. and publicly available sources to give a ‘domestic’, ‘co-production’ and ‘foreign’. comprehensive view of drama production Feature films and TV dramas represent about The Drama Report 2012/13 | Screen Australia 3 Serangoon Road KEY TERMS Analysis of ‘total budgets’ includes completed (they have generally been content’ test for eligibility for the visual editing, digital effects, creation all projects that started shooting issued with a Provisional Certificate). Producer Offset and may be classified of computer-generated images (CGI), during the financial year, with the full An Offset project may be either an as ‘Australian’ for the purposes film laboratory work and duplication budget allocated to the date principal eligible domestic production or an of Australian content regulations services. As such, it includes a variety photography started; budgets are not official co-production. applying to broadcasters, in most of activities that not only take place apportioned across the duration of the cases the report discusses domestic after the shoot but also during the project. This indicator is not reported ‘Non-Offset projects’ are domestic and co-production projects as a earlier stages of a project’s overall for foreign PDV-only productions as productions which for reasons combined ‘Australian’ slate. production. the Australian work may represent such as format, level of production only a small proportion of the overall expenditure or use of previous tax ‘Foreign’ productions are defined Please note: This report has been budget. incentives are not eligible for the as those under foreign creative compiled by Screen Australia’s Producer Offset. control, originated and developed by Producer Offset & Co-production Unit, As a subset of ‘total budgets’, the non-Australians. This includes foreign incorporating data gathered from amount spent in Australia is also ‘Domestic’ productions include: projects with an Australian production administration of the Offset as well as analysed; this is particularly relevant – Offset projects other than co- company operating in a service data gathered by Screen Australia’s for co-productions and foreign productions capacity. Strategy & Research Unit through productions. Again, all expenditure – non-Offset projects under contact with production companies or is allocated to the date principal Australian creative control (ie In-house productions are projects from publicly available sources. PDV photography or the date PDV work in where the key elements are by Australian TV stations, where no data is gathered through surveying Australia began rather than according predominantly Australian and independent production company is PDV companies. to the actual date of spending. Note: the project was originated and credited as producer or co-producer. this is not the same as ‘qualifying developed by Australians). This See also Methodology on page 23. Australian production expenditure’ includes projects under Australian PDV (post-production, digital (QAPE) for the purpose of the creative control that are 100 per production and visual effects) refers Producer Offset: some expenditure cent foreign financed. to those activities that create audio in Australia is not QAPE, and QAPE and visual elements for film or can include some expenditure on ‘Co-productions’ are official TV drama other than by principal Australian elements outside of co-productions (ie projects made photography, pick ups or physical Australia. QAPE is not reported here. pursuant to an agreement between elements such as sets and props, the Australian Government and the and includes animation. It also ‘Offset projects’ are projects which government of another country). refers to the manipulation of those have accessed the Producer Offset or, Because official co-productions don’t elements and includes sound and if not completed, will access it once have to pass the ‘significant Australian 4 Overview The annual slate of feature films and TV drama productions consists of Australian titles (including official co-productions) and foreign titles that start production or post, digital and visual effects (PDV) during a given year. DRAMA EXPENDITURE IN AUSTRALIA Rake y Total expenditure in Australia by the y Australian feature production was down 2012/13 drama slate was $752 million, a on last year but close to the five-year 9 per cent increase on the previous year. average. There were no co-productions Australian TV drama accounted for 50 per in the feature slate for the first time in 14 cent of expenditure, Australian feature years, while last year’s slate included two films 33 per cent and foreign activity high-budget, foreign-financed titles as well (primarily feature production) 17 per cent. as four co-productions. y Expenditure by the Australian slate y Foreign activity accounted for – domestic productions and official expenditure in Australia of $130 million co-productions – totalled $622 million, in 2012/13, up from $98 million last year, comprising 656 hours of TV drama (56 primarily due to the high-budget US feature titles) spending $372 million and 27 The Wolverine. Six foreign features and features spending $250 million. two foreign TV dramas started shooting in y Australian TV drama expenditure Australia during the year, and six foreign increased by 27 per cent on the previous projects (all features) undertook PDV in year to reach the highest level on record, Australia without shooting here. and total hours increased by 19 per cent. Mini-series production continued to climb, EXPENDITURE BY LOCATION and children’s drama recorded strong y Of total 2012/13 drama expenditure, 57 growth following a contraction over the per cent occurred in NSW, 30 per cent in previous three years. Increased investment Victoria and 7 per cent in South Australia. by the ABC contributed to growth in both children’s and adults’ drama production. 800 $744m $752m $723m $689m 700 600 Foreign $516m Features 500 TV drama 400 Australian 300 Features TV drama – Children’s 200 TV drama – for adults 100 Spend in Australia ($m) 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13 The Drama Report 2012/13 | Screen Australia 5 All drama production Total expenditure in Australia by the 2012/13 drama slate was $752 million, comprising $622 million by Australian projects and $130 million by foreign productions. Five-year summary 2008/09–2012/13 Australian Co- Total Offset1 Non-Offset2 Domestic production Australian Foreign2 Total No. Spend No. Spend No. Spend No. Spend No. Spend No. Spend No. Spend Year titles $m titles $m titles $m titles $m titles $m titles $m titles $m Annual feature slate 2008/09 24 359 14 10 36 355 2 13 38 368 13 20 51 388 2009/10 30 265 12 8 37 242 5 31 42 273 11 180 53 452 2010/11 16 91 6 2 18 55 4 37 22 92 14 31 36 124 2011/12 29 296 3 1 28 265 4 32 32 297 20 90 52 387 2012/13 n.p. n.p. n.p. n.p. 27 250 0 0 27 250 12 109 39 358 5-yr av 25 252 7 4 29 234 3 22 32 256 14 86 46 342 Annual TV drama slate 2008/09 35 252 10 81 42 320 3 13 45 333 4 1 49 334 2009/10 27 232 10 60 35 279 2 13 37 292 2 <1 39 292 2010/11 33 265 8 72 40 334 1 3 41 337 3 54 44 392 2011/12 38 226 7 68 43 n.p.