Production

 

63 hours

Running a project « Just a Trace » our in school record label                     

Within the frame of their program, the opportunity is offered to the students to confront their theoretical knowledge which they have been acquiring in the training courses to the reality in the field.Students can actively participate in each stage of a production.

 

They might negotiate contracts with artists, attend the various phases of studio recording, mixing & mastering. They are also involved in the marketing of the project and the process and phases of promotion and sales. Our in school record label « Just a Trace » provides students with concrete & realistic professional experience.

 

Executive production

- Making a recording

- The most common methods and tools of production

- The theory of sound and the basics of acoustics

- Digital and analogical recording studios

- Practical knowledge about equipment: consoles & mix-boards, microphones, outboard effects

- Features and techniques of midi & acoustic recording

- Organizating sessions and the making of a recording: sound recording, editing, mixing

- Computer assisted sound recording: display & use of software

 

Artistic direction

- The role & functions of the executive producer, artistic director and arranger

- Analysis of the production and its how to qualify it????

- Listening to a recording and the audience’s perceptions

- Communication with the artist, choosing a production & its direction

- Respecting the artist's personality and environment

- Added value, originality and differentiation

 

Mastering

- Mastering

- Editing

- Technical specifications

- The ISRC code

 

Mediums for diffusion in music                                 

- Technical specifications for mediums of diffusion (CD’s, records, MP3 files, etc)

- Factories & sub-contractors

- Manufacturing prices & costs 

- Keeping records

- Obligatory acknowledgements  

- On Package Price indicators:  Pricing codes and bar codes.