Economic environments

 

92 hours

The live performance market

- The main actors, their special features, initiatives & strategies

- Market & consumer facts and figures

- Trends & outlook for evolution in terms of technology, culture & economics

- Consumption: why and how people buy, consumer behavior

- Current issues & sources of information

- The Information technology market

- The main actors, their particularities, initiatives & strategies

- Market & consumer facts and figures

- Trends & outlook for evolution in terms of technology, culture & economics

- Consumption: home equipment, practices, buyer motivations, consumer behavior

- Current issues & sources of information

 

The consumer electronics market

- The main actors, their particularities, initiatives & strategies

- Market and consumer facts and figures

- Trends and outlook for evolution in terms of technology, culture & economics

- Consumption: home equipment, practices, buyer motivation, consumer behavior

- Current issues and sources of information

 

The telecommunication market

- The main actors, their particularities, initiatives and strategies

- Market and consumer facts and figures

- Trends and outlook for evolution in terms of technology, culture and economics

- Consumption: home equipment, practices, buyer motivation, consumer behavior

- Current issues & sources of information

 

The music & video market

- The main actors, their particularities, initiatives & strategies

- Market & consumer facts and figures

- Trends & outlook for evolution in terms of technology, culture and economics

- Consumption: home equipment, practices, buyer motivation, consumer behavior

- Current issues & sources of information

 

Video games & the interactive entertainment markets

- The main actors in the creation and commercialization of consoles and video games

- Their particularities, initiatives and strategies

- Market figures: total sales, sales, formats and forms / The best sellers

- Producers and distributors of video games and consoles: how they function and their catalogs

- Trends and outlook for evolution in terms of technology, culture and economics

- Consumption: home equipment, practices, buyer motivation, consumer behavior

- Current issues and sources of information

 

Merchandising & spun off products

- Brand range & development

- The various types of spun off products & manufacturing them

- Forms of merchandizing in use: promotional items, T-shirts, caps, posters, programs, jewels and gadgets

- « Collector items » and products under license

- Organizing the sale of promotional products during a concert

- Trends & outlook for evolution

 

Music & cinema

- The main trends, styles and tendencies for soundtracks

- The main artists, composers, authors and repertoires

- Relations between the owners and users of music

- Musical forms and their characteristics, the instruments

- The outlook for evolution, discography and bibliography

- Listening and analyzing recordings

- Presentation of the laws and standard applied rules: authors’ rights & soundtracks

- The various types of contractual relations

- Organizing production / Editing and synchronization

- Overview of production and commercialization budgets

- Identification and assessment of projected subsidies & revenues: sales, and secondary uses

- Customs and the best practices of specialists

 

Music & audiovisual

- The worlds of radio & audiovisual: general public radio stations, theme stations & music only stations, general public TV channels, thematic TV channels and musical TV channels / Classic television broadcasting, cable, satellite and digital channels

- How these companies function

- Relations between the owners & users of music

- Initiatives & strategies for development

- The audiences & programming policies of the main radio stations

- Associative, publicly funded community radio stations and campus radios

- Rotating playlists, miscellaneous classifications

- The main television channels’ audiences and programming policies

- Publicly funded community and college TV channels

- Obligations of the actors involved and the programming of music: authors’ rights, neighboring rights, quotas of French songs and music in broadcasting, laws applicable to the audiovisual sector

- Relations with artists, musicians, record companies: promotion, partnerships and purchasing advertizing space.

- Production and investment in advertising

 

Music, video & advertizing

- How to be successful in associating music, products & services during the promotion process

- Relations between owners and users of music

- The main suppliers and vendors

- Musical forms and their characteristics, the composers, the performers, the instruments

- The main trends, styles and developments

- Synchronization

- Music in the service of labels & advertisers: listening & analyzing recordings

- Specialized products & specially ordered musical works

- Overview of the laws & the main rules: authors’ rights & advertising

- The various types of contractual relations

- Organizing a production

- How specialists work and their best practices

- Consumer rights associations

 

Public relations

- Learn how to put information into form: premières, launches, showcases & openings

- Putting together communication tools: press releases and press-books

- Determining the target and transmitting the message

- Enhancing the diffusion of information

- Collecting and preserving achievements: press reviews, articles, interviews / radio, TV and internet broadcasts

- Learn how to analyze the after-effects

 

Communication

- Techniques and means of promotion

- Strategies to imagine and put into action

- Concerts, radio, press, Internet: how to get known, to be discovered and boost one’s audience

- How to create a « buzz » and at what cost

- Setting up a media plan: identifying and using tools and aids of communication

- How to position your product and status in the market

- Networking and finding opinion leaders

- A few tricks for assuring effective promotion campaigns.