Production Management Field of study: Creative management in new media
Programme code: W8-S2CM20.2022

Module name: Production Management
Module code: W8-ZN-S2-KP
Programme code: W8-S2CM20.2022
Semester:
  • summer semester 2024/2025
  • summer semester 2023/2024
  • summer semester 2022/2023
Language of instruction: English
Form of verification: exam
ECTS credits: 3
Description:
The module aims to explore working in a production team and developing knowledge, skills, and competencies in the key elements of production management work. Students will deepen their knowledge of the stage of the production process. Students will learn techniques to lead creative discussions to produce the best results. Students will understand the various issues surrounding the film and new media production. Case studies will be presented to enhance the competencies and knowledge of the future producer. Students will develop skills in conducting production meetings, negotiations, estimating meeting times, and moderating discussions. The module covers such issues as types of market agreements, ways of communication, creating a meeting plan, types of production management objectives, distinguished based on different criteria, and differentiation of objectives set in the stages of production (development, pre-production, production, and post-production), principles of goal setting and creating schedules.
Prerequisites:
The student has to have a basic knowledge of the film industry and human resource management.
Key reading:
B. Clevé: Film Production Management: How to Budget, Organize and Successfully Shoot your Film, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 4th Edition, 2017. G. Takoudes: The Collaborative Director. A Department-by-Department Guide to Filmmaking, 1st Edition, Taylor & Francis Ltd 2019. A.S. Grove: High Output Management. Vintage; 2nd edition, 1995. K. Blanchard: The New One Minute Manager, William Morrow, 2015.
Learning outcome of the module Codes of the learning outcomes of the programme to which the learning outcome of the module is related [level of competence: scale 1-5]
The student knows the work techniques of production management: planning, organizing work, making decisions, conducting meetings, and time management. [KP_1]
 K_W11 [5/5]
The student knows decision-making techniques and conditions of decision-making. The student knows the mechanisms of making mistakes during decision-making. [KP_2]
 K_W10 [4/5]
The student will be able to plan the production process of a film, a television program, and a show using selected planning techniques and skillfully lead a team. [KP_3]
 K_U04 [5/5]
The student has the team-building skills and competencies required to manage multi-person teams of people. [KP_4]
 K_U09 [4/5]
The student can creatively seek solutions to production problems and verify the assumptions made during the stages of the production process. [KP_5]
 K_K06 [4/5]
The student can manage a team and stages of the production process. [KP_6]
 K_K09 [4/5]
Type Description Codes of the learning outcomes of the module to which assessment is related
Test [KP_w_1]
Verification of the degree to which students achieve the established learning outcomes will be realized by completing a written work containing documentation related to the activities undertaken by the production management.
 KP_1 KP_2
Continuous evaluation [KP_w_2]
Verification of the degree to which students achieve the established learning outcomes of skills and competencies will be carried out using oral colloquia on topics related to Production Management.
 KP_3 KP_4 KP_5 KP_6
Form of teaching Student's own work Assessment of the learning outcomes
Type Description (including teaching methods) Number of hours Description Number of hours
lecture [KP_fs_1]
Problem method (problem and interactive lecture).
 15
Analysis of the literature on the subject, analysis of the lecture content, searching for examples in practice, independent implementation of the indicated material batches, including the subject literature.
 30 Test [KP_w_1]
practical classes [KP_fs_2]
Case studies that are to encourage students to manage of Production Management process independently. Group work.
 15
Individual preparation for each class, systematization of the material presented during classes, preparation of projects - also group ones. Independent implementation of the material batch indicated in the syllabus and analysis of examples selected by the lecturer, repetition and consolidation of knowledge and skills acquired during the course.
 30 Continuous evaluation [KP_w_2]
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Module description (PDF)
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Syllabuses (USOSweb)
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