Checking date: 12/07/2020


Course: 2020/2021

Creativity I: from the concept to the campaign
(17115)
Master in Advertising Communication (Plan: 359 - Estudio: 326)
EPH


Coordinating teacher: LADO COUSTE, NORA RITA

Department assigned to the subject: Institute for the Development of Enterprises and Markets (INDEM)

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
None
Objectives
COMPETENCES CB6, To have and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and / or application of ideas, often in a research context. CG2, To understand the functioning of creative processes in advertising communication. CG4, To identify the brands strategy in the current saturated advertising market. CE3, To identify creative techniques from the creation of the concept to the advertising campaign. CE9, To develop and manage advertising productions aimed at traditional media and multimedia. CE10, To identify and define communication objectives and design the most appropriate strategies in the dialogue between brands and consumers. LEARNING OUTCOMES To transmit the knowledge of what are the techniques of creativity from their origin. To cover the training in creativity from the individual-group debate to the great creative methods. To provide learning of the creative sequence in advertising and creative formats. To transmit knowledge of associative techniques and their operating principles to analog techniques and analog representation in advertising.
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction to advertising creativity. The brand concept The CBI model (Creative Business Idea) Case study. 2. The insight. Generation of insights. From the client's brief to creativity. Strategy and insight. 3. The advertising agency. Traditional and current structures. The planner. The process from the client's brief to production. 4. From the brief to the concept Creativity and innovation. Creativity exercises The development of the concept Testing and telling the idea 5. From the concept to the sale Concept and advertising genres The presentation materials The presentation to the client 6. From sale to execution The concept of campaign Process of the television campaign Process of the digital campaign Process of the graphic campaign Social media Promotional marketing and direct marketing
Learning activities and methodology
LEARNING ACTIVITIES Theoretical classes Practical classes Tutoring Group work Individual work TEACHING METHODOLOGY -Lectures in class by the lecturer with the support of audiovisual media, in which the main concepts of the course will be developed. Bibliography will be provideed in order to complement the knowledge of the students. -Critical review of readings and audiovisual material suggested by the lecturer: press articles, videos, advertising campaigns, reports, manuals and academic articles, either for class' discussion or for students to amplify and consolidate the courses's content. -Resolution of advertising and communication case studies posed by the lecturer, in an individual or group manner. -Presentation and discussion in class, under the lecturer's moderation, of topics related to the course as well as case studies. -Assignments and reports done by students in an indivisual or group manner.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Basic Bibliography
  • A. Jerome J., Bonnie L. Drewniany . Creative Strategy in Adverstising. University of South Carolina, Columbia. 2014
  • Alice Kavounas. PENSAMIENTO ESTRATÉGICO PARA CREATIVOS PUBLICITARIOS. PROMOPRESS. 2016
  • Andrew McStay. CREATIVITY AND ADVERTISING. ROUTLEDGE. 2013
  • John Hegarty. HEGARTY ON CREATIVITY. THAMES & HUDSON. 2014
  • Teresa Iezzi. THE IDEA WRITERS. ADVERTISING AGE. 2010
  • Tom Altsel & Jean Grow. ADVERTISING CREATIVE. SAGE. 2017
  • W. Glenn Griffin, Deborah Morrison. THE CREATIVE PROCESS ILLUSTRATED. HOW Books. 2010

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.