COMPETENCES
-To possess and understand key knowledge to be able to be original in the development and application of ideas, often within a research context.
-Capacity to apply knowledge and solve problems in new environments within wider contexts (or multidisciplinary) related to the area of study.
-Capacity to integrate knowledge and confront the complexity of judgments taking limited or incomplete information as a point of departure, including reflections on social and ethical responsibilities, linked to the acquisition of knowledge and judgment.
-Capacity to express knowledge, convey reasoning and reach conclusions to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear, unambiguous fashion.
-Capacity to learn in order to keep studying in an autonomous fashion.
-Produce, manage and organize audiovisual productions for cinema and television.
-Screenplay development including executive production.
-Evaluate and organize the economic management of productions.
-Direct and translation of screenplays into film and television images
-Identify the roles and human resources relations within the context of audiovisual productions.
-Define exploitation and commercialization pathways for audiovisual productions.
-Identify, select and develop proposals for film and television projects.
-Capacity to create viability studies, package creation and budgets.
-Capacity to identify funding opportunities and solve economic and financial problems for audiovisual projects.
-Create and explain audiovisual projects in pitching sessions.
-Knowledge of the key tools of screenwriting for the development of film and television fiction.
-Identify and classify the appropriate technical and working crews for each phase of the project: preproduction, shooting and postproduction.
-Plan screenplays and mise-en-scene: basic notions on directing actors.
-Plan and organize shooting plans.
-Supervise and manage the postproduction and finalization processes.
LEARNING RESULTS
-Students will be familiarized with the analysis of real-life scenarios similar to those confronted by production and writing specialists in their day-to-day work.
-Students will create, develop and plan an audiovisual project, to be pitched/showcased in different markets within the audiovisual sector. To accomplish such a goal, they will have to apply the different competences acquired throughout the course of the Masters program, developing also viability studies and market research.
-Students will know how to approach existing problems within the professional and academic research fields.
-Students could potentially choose a finalized audiovisual project that allows them to apply all knowledge learnt throughout the Masters program.