Concert production and booking
146 hours
Stage management
- Organizing concerts & tours
- Assessment of needs and putting into action the technical aspects of a production
- Production management and co-ordination
- Contract specifications, stage plots and technical riders
Sound and Stage lighting
- Presentation of equipment, tools & technical aspects
- Assessing requests and needs
- Trends & new technologies
Directing, choreography and stage design
- Definitions & reference points
- Creating a live show
- The art of choreographing dance & movement
- Setting up a stage: sets, accessories, lightning
- Case study
Booking & Setting up tours
- Sale forces & Sales techniques
- Finding gigs & organizing a coherent tour
- Dialog & negotiating with a concert programmer
- Relations on the telephone
- Tools
Live performance agreements
- Definitions & basic information on contractual relations in the field of live performance: Employment contracts, live performance agreements, assignment of performance rights contracts, coproduction contracts, partnership agreements, venue rental contracts.
The movement of artists
- Visas, and work permits
- Applicable Rules, regulations, and laws
- Cases study
Transport & logistics
- The assessment of needs
- The various means of transportation
- Sub-contactors, shippers, customs
- The ATA book
Accommodations, tourism & catering
- Identifying the sub-contractors and service providers and analyzing their offers
- How geographic regions affect added value during a tour
- The various types of accommodations
Safety and Security
- Rules & regulations, technical information
- Identifying and defining risks and responsibilities
- Applicable safety rules and obligations for live performances venues
- Venues, spaces, special effects, sound levels, structures, electricity, fires: an overview of measures to be taken & implemented
- Insurance issues
Live performance venues
- The venues: private & public theaters, publicly funded venues, cultural centers, casinos, discos
- The geographic placement of venues
- Organization & funding
- Artistic direction & programming
Festivals
- The landmark festivals
- The geographic placement of festivals
- Organization & funding
- Artistic direction & programming
- Communication strategies & partnerships
- Case studies
Cultural politics & policies
- How cultural policies evolve
- Relations between the « entrepreneur » & « public sector »
- Public funding for culture & especially as concerns music
- A presentation of local, provincial & national programs
- Decentralization & decentralization
- Research & documentation
On site visits
In the frame of their program, students are offered the opportunity to visit live performance venues or other places that we consider relevant & instructive.
Students can actively participate in the organization of these visits and the writing and presentation of follow up reports. It is a very good opportunity to meet professionals in the field.
The network of associations
The networks, fan clubs, resource centers and non-profit organizations: presentation of associative structures, their missions and their ways of functioning
Ticket Sales
- Issuing tickets
- The basic principles of ticketing
- A close look at a live performance ticket
- Digital, dematerialized and physical tickets (paper, cardboard)
- Declaring your business activities and concert revenue
- Ticket sales distribution: networks and people involved
- Commercial contracts
