Program content

Students will learn to setup a score for media. How to prepare a score for an orchestra (reduced) ? By setting the melody and the harmony, choosing the mode and adapting the music to the atmosphere of a scene. Students will learn how to organize and compose music considering different musical styles and genres.

A 16-hour seminar where film music is introduced and analyzed using categories from various authors. Students will study significative cues around the history of film music and will train students to analyze, understand and acquire key tools to understand how music can underline a scene.

Students will learn how music can lead narrative features from different perspectives, from films to video games.

This course unit is divided into two specialties- Orchestration Techniques and Sound Design. For Orchestration Techniques, students work concretely on the arrangement of music and on score editing software. For Sound Design, students learn how to manipulate studio tools for editing, EQ, effects, mixing and music post-processing.

The project module allows students to carry out different projects during the year particularly, for the Diploma in Scenario and Narrative and the Diploma in Video Game Creation. Students will be required to carry out commissions for short films in professional internships and produce a score for an orchestra.

This course offers students the opportunity to test their musical creativity in different situations: musical creation practice in the form of improvisation, a creative challenge, or a musical writing sprint.

The Entrepreneurship for Creative Industries webinar provides students with the essential tools, techniques, and concepts needed to invent, launch, and sustain a business in the creative sector.
Building on each student’s creative talents and interests, the webinar provides a practical, actionoriented introduction to the business of art, focusing on:
• product design
• organizational planning and assessment
• customer identification and marketing
• fundraising
• legal issues
• money management
• cultural policy
• career development
The webinar offers examples, exercises, and references that guide entrepreneurs through the key stages of concept creation, business development, and growth. Special attention is paid to topics such as cultural ventures seeking social impact, the emergence of creative placemaking, the opportunities afforded by novel corporate forms, and the role of contemporary technologies in marketing, fundraising, and operations.
Learning outcomes
• Prepare students to undertake their own business in the field of creative industries
• Mastering the related tools of business construction for creative industries
• Learning to understand the language of business men/women and creators
• Help students focus their interests in specific areas of the field and prepare them for further study and direct involvement as entrepreneurs and managers in the arts.