Hello and welcome to Trend UK, your shortcut to popular culture from the British Council. In the next few minutes we’re going to be seeing what it’s like to live and work as a young professional in the UK. Creative industries play a key role in the UK’s economic growth. It’s a sector which covers activities such as architecture, publishing, film, fashion, music, radio and TV, and software. And it accounts for almost ten percent of the UK economy. Creative industries often attract young people who feel naturally drawn to them, in the hope that they can make their mark, their fortune or both, whilst expressing themselves in their chosen field. That’s the dream but what are the realities? Our reporter Mark brought together a group of young creative professionals from the film industry to find out.
你好，歡迎來到《英國文化》，在這里你能快速地獲取來自英國文化協(xié)會的流行文化。在接下來的幾分鐘內(nèi)讓我們來看看在英國一個(gè)年輕職業(yè)人士的生活和工作是怎樣的。創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)在英國的經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展中發(fā)揮著核心的作用。它是一個(gè)涵蓋了建筑、出版、電影、時(shí)尚、音樂、無線電廣播、電視和軟件的領(lǐng)域。它在英國經(jīng)濟(jì)總量中幾乎占了百分之十的比重。創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)對年輕人有吸引力，這些年輕人感覺自己很自然地就被這一產(chǎn)業(yè)給吸引了，他們希望在自己選擇的領(lǐng)域中有出色的表現(xiàn)和豐厚的收入，同時(shí)還可以表達(dá)他們自己。這是夢想，那現(xiàn)實(shí)是什么呢？我們的記者馬克召集了一組從事電影產(chǎn)業(yè)的年輕創(chuàng)新職業(yè)人士來研究。

Assemble a group of young people who work in the UK’s burgeoning creative sector and you won’t be short of opinions. By and large, they’re all under 30, they're all extremely enthusiastic and they’ve all got something to shout about.
召集一組在英國迅速發(fā)展的創(chuàng)意領(lǐng)域的年輕人，你就不會缺乏觀點(diǎn)?？偟膩碚f，他們都沒滿三十歲，他們都充滿了熱情，他們都有想大聲表達(dá)的東西。

"I’m a film and video editor."
“我是一名電影和錄像編輯?！?/p>

"I work in television as a lighting camera woman."
“我在電視領(lǐng)域工作，我是一名燈光師和攝影師?！?/p>

"I’m a freelance cameraman and editor."
“我是一名自由攝影師和編輯?！?/p>

So what’s it like working in a creative industry here in the UK?
那在英國的創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)工作感覺是怎樣的呢？

"It can be fantastic. You know everything has highs and lows I think. But the highs can be particularly high. I’ve worked on a variety of projects, I’ve worked for about two years as an editor so far so… last year I worked on 'Nanny McPhee' which was Emma Thompson’s latest offering and I was an assistant on 'Seed of Chucky' which is part of the famous 'Child's Play' franchise. Which is a good experience, that was a relatively large Hollywood film."
“很不可思議。我認(rèn)為所有的東西都有高潮和低谷。而高潮可以特別高。我做過各種項(xiàng)目。我做編輯已經(jīng)有大概兩年了……去年我為《魔法保姆麥克菲》工作，那是艾瑪.湯普森最新的作品。我還是電影《鬼娃孽種》的助手，它是《鬼娃回魂》系列的其中一部。這對我來說是很寶貴的經(jīng)歷，它是好萊塢很大型的電影?！?/p>

"I do an awful lot of sport, which is, you know, shooting live cycling and things like that. I also shoot the odd commercial and I’ve done some documentary work for television."
“我從事很多運(yùn)動(dòng)方面的工作，像拍攝現(xiàn)場自行車比賽之類的。我也會拍攝一些奇特的商業(yè)廣告，我還為電視節(jié)目做了一些紀(jì)錄片。”

"Breaking into the industry is very difficult. And certainly for the first two years that I was trying to break in I had to spend a lot of time working as a carpenter or doing whatever I could, painting and decorating, to get by, whilst you are pursuing contacts, really. But then as you get more and more established, you get more and more contacts and at the same time you get better and better. The work you do is much better. You know, it gets much easier."
“進(jìn)入一個(gè)行業(yè)是很難的。開始的那兩年，我試著去打拼，我不得不花很多時(shí)間去做木匠或是一些我所力所能及的工作，像上油漆和做裝潢之類的來勉強(qiáng)度日。與此同時(shí)，你正在接觸很多的東西，這是真的。而當(dāng)你創(chuàng)業(yè)越來越多時(shí)，你就會有越來越多的接觸，同時(shí)你也會變得越來越好。你的工作也會越變越好。一切都變得簡單多了。

And do you have to work long hours?
你需要工作很長時(shí)間嗎？

"Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen hour days, it’s not unusual. There are limits set within the law, but of course everyone does... (you) usually do whatever’s required to get the material in the can."
“一天十四、十五或是十六個(gè)小時(shí)，這并非不正常。法律制定了時(shí)間限制，但當(dāng)然每個(gè)人都愿意工作久一點(diǎn)……（你）總會為了滿足生活基本需要而去做你需要做的事情。

What about the social side of things? Do you go out much? Do you have time to go out much?
那在社交方面呢？你經(jīng)常外出嗎？你有時(shí)間外出嗎？

"In terms of meeting people it’s a very mixed bag. I often work on my own, so I’m effectively... I’m directing myself doing camera work and then I’ll go and edit, and I’ll direct myself editing and, you know, I’m completely on my own for days at a time working on a project. On other projects which are much more collaborative, you meet an awful lot of people, and obviously you’ve got a lot in common and with some of them I’ve developed really very good relationships that, you know, I think now you could call friendships. So yeah, socially it can be great."
“說到結(jié)交人，這是個(gè)非常復(fù)雜的東西。我經(jīng)常自己一個(gè)工作，所以我很有效率地自己一個(gè)人去做攝影工作然后編輯。我在致力于一個(gè)項(xiàng)目的時(shí)候完全是靠自己一個(gè)人。當(dāng)你做其他一些合作性的項(xiàng)目的時(shí)候，你會遇到很多的人，你和他們會有很多共同點(diǎn)，你也會和他們中的一些人建立很友好的關(guān)系，也就是說友誼。所以，這從社交層面看是很好的。”

"You have a great social life with the people that you work with, but organising social life outside of that, if you’re working seventy-two-hour weeks, can be pretty rough. The flip-side of the coin is that if you’re not working at all, you’ve got all the time in the world. But remember that people who work in other industries don’t really understand your stop-start lifestyle. So it can take extra effort to meet up with people."
“你和你的同事有很融洽的社交生活，但是如果你一周工作72個(gè)小時(shí)的話，組織社交生活會比較困難。相反地，如果你不工作，你就會有大把的時(shí)間。但是，你要記住，在另一個(gè)行業(yè)工作的人是不會真正理解你時(shí)斷時(shí)續(xù)的生活方式的。所以，和別人見個(gè)面需要更多的努力?！?/p>

And where do you hope to be in about, say, ten years?
十年后你希望自己到達(dá)一個(gè)怎樣的位置？

"Really fast broadband is going to change the way we work. In terms of transferring big amounts of data around and stuff, it’s going to get easier and easier. So, I do think that in 10 years time I’m certain, you know, you’ll want some ‘face time’ as they say for meetings and all that sort of stuff. And physically, for filming some things you’ll have to be there. But very often, it won’t matter where on earth you are in the world, so I am actually planning on buying a place in Portugal or Spain and continue my post-production stuff overseas." “寬帶真的是在迅速地在改變著我們的工作方式。從傳遞龐大的數(shù)據(jù)和材料的角度來講，我們的工作回變得越來越簡單。所以，我很確定十年后你會想要一些“會面時(shí)間”來開會和處理所有這類的東西。從身體的角度來講，如果你要拍攝一些東西，你必須要在親臨現(xiàn)場。但是，通常情況下，你到底在哪里并不重要，所以我計(jì)劃在葡萄牙或西班牙買一塊地來繼續(xù)我的后期制作。”

Would you recommend it as a career, or do you have any advice for people who are thinking of taking it up?
你可不可以把它當(dāng)成一種職業(yè)來推薦，或者是說，你有沒有建議要給那些想要從事這一行的人呢?

"I would definitely encourage people to come to Britain to work in the creative industries; they are some of the best in the world in terms of content, ideas, execution. The creatives and the technicians in this country are fantastic. My one tip would be: make sure that you’ve got that endurance, that capacity, that capacity to endure, because you’re going to be faced with long hours, some difficult people and occasions where you’re paid very little, if anything at all. So make sure that you’re determined and focused on working in these industries. You can’t be a tourist, so to speak."
“我肯定會鼓勵(lì)人們要英國來從事創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)；從內(nèi)容、創(chuàng)意、執(zhí)行來說它們都是全世界最好的。這個(gè)國家的創(chuàng)意人員合技術(shù)人員都很棒。我有一個(gè)建議：要確保自己有耐力、有能力，因?yàn)槟銓L時(shí)間地面對一些難以應(yīng)付的人和一些你毫無收獲的場合。所以，要確保自己有決心，專注的在這些產(chǎn)業(yè)中工作。打個(gè)比喻，你不能只是做個(gè)游客來觀光罷了。”

"Britain is a fantastic place to work in the creative industries because there is a very huge buzz, very high training and people are really passionate about what they do. But it’s also extremely competitive and the number of places for people to work in is a lot smaller than the number of people trying to get work. So you have to be very tenacious, you have to really, really want to do it. It is not glamorous, it’s long hard hours and you have to be pretty thick skinned. So give it a try and if you care about it, do it. But if not, you can make a lot more money a lot more easily doing something else."
“英國是一個(gè)從事創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)的好地方，因?yàn)樵谀抢锬銜泻艽蟮膲毫?，有高?qiáng)度的訓(xùn)練，而且人們對他們所做的工作都充滿著激情。但是，它也極具競爭力，人們工作的地方比謀求工作的人數(shù)小得多。所以你必須要有頑強(qiáng)的意志，必須真的有意愿去做它。這不是什么吸引人的工作，它的工作時(shí)間很長，很難熬，你的臉皮要夠厚。所以嘗試一下把，如果你很感興趣，就去做吧。但如果你不感興趣，你可以做別的更輕松的工作來賺更多的錢。”

"Yes, I would recommend it as a career. It’s enormously enjoyable, much more creative than most people’s jobs are, much more varied than most people’s jobs are. Financially, I hate to say it, but I’m now doing really quite well. In terms of the advice I’d give to someone, don’t give up because there’ll be endless barriers in your way where people, you know, you get all these false horizons where you think you’re about to get a big break and then, you know, it just turns into nothing and never never make any mistakes… that’s the most important thing of all because you only get one chance. If it’s your first job with someone and you stuff it up, well that’s it, the phone’s not going to ring again. So, you know, be careful - don’t make any mistakes!"
“是的，我會把它視為一份職業(yè)來推薦給大家。它能讓人們享受他們的工作，它比大部分人的工作都更具有創(chuàng)新性，它和大部分人的工作都不一樣。雖然我也不想這么說，但我真的賺了很多錢。說到我要給的建議，我想說的是永不放棄。因?yàn)樵谀闱斑M(jìn)的道路上會有無數(shù)的障礙。你這條道路上，你會碰到一些假象。當(dāng)你認(rèn)為自己會有一個(gè)很大的突破時(shí)，結(jié)果你會發(fā)現(xiàn)什么都沒有改變，什么都沒有出錯(cuò)……那是最重要的東西，因?yàn)槟阒挥幸淮螜C(jī)會。如果你和別人第一次做生意就亂了套，對方就再也不會給你電話了。所以，小心點(diǎn)，別出任何差錯(cuò)?！?/p>

Well, as a young professional in a creative industry myself, I can wholeheartedly recommend it. And you do get to meet the nicest people.
作為一個(gè)創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)的年輕專業(yè)人士，我誠心地向大家推薦這份工作。而你肯定會遇到最好的伙伴的。

Our young creative professional reporter Mark, there. And that’s it for this time. Please remember that the opinions expressed in Trend UK are those of the individuals concerned, and not necessarily the views of the British Council. Don’t forget, you can find out what the British Council is doing in the field of creative industries by checking our website www.britishcouncil.org. Just follow the links under ‘Arts’. And while you’re on the website you can also update your English by checking out the words and phrases in the Trend UK online glossary. And tell us what you think by sending us a comment or voting in the online poll. But for now, from me and all the Trend UK Team, bye bye.
我們年輕的創(chuàng)意專業(yè)記者馬克報(bào)道。這次就講到這里。請注意，英國流行趨勢所表達(dá)的是一些人的個(gè)人觀點(diǎn)，而不是英國文化協(xié)會的觀點(diǎn)。別忘了，你可以通過www.britishcouncil.org這個(gè)網(wǎng)站去研究英國文化協(xié)會在創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)領(lǐng)域做些什么。你只要密切關(guān)注‘藝術(shù)’下面的鏈接就行了。.當(dāng)瀏覽這個(gè)網(wǎng)站的時(shí)候，你也可以通過英國流行趨勢的網(wǎng)絡(luò)字典查一些單詞和詞組來提高你的英語水平。如果想發(fā)表向我們自己的想法，你可以給我們發(fā)評論或是在網(wǎng)上投票。但現(xiàn)在是時(shí)候和我還有整個(gè)英國流行趨勢團(tuán)隊(duì)說再見了。