DDML502 The producer seminar (manag. theater and art)

Theatre Faculty
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/8. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
Teacher(s)
MgA. Lucie Abou (lecturer)
prof. MgA. Blanka Kolegar (lecturer)
MgA. Jakub Mareš (lecturer)
doc. MgA. Hana Průchová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. MgA. BcA. Petra Vodičková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. MgA. Blanka Kolegar
Theatre Management and Stage Technology Department – Dean’s Office – Theatre Faculty – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Supplier department: Theatre Management and Stage Technology Department – Dean’s Office – Theatre Faculty – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Prerequisites
All courses prior and concurrent master study.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to examine the student's abilities and readiness to work as a producer. The examination is based on thet independently elaborated Producer's Plan that is consulted within a seminar. Produser`s Plan is a strategic plan (including the analytical part) and follow-up implementation plans ofa long-term intervention within the artistic or culture environment that is developed by student. In order to process the Producer's Plan, the seminar provides methodology, clues in the form of milestones including recommendations for consultation of sub-areas (law, marketing, financial management) in other courses of the study program. The final output from the Seminar - Producer's Plan - serves as a substance for the state final examination. This substance is subjected to the commission's evaluation and questions in terms of both concrete and theoretical nature.
Learning outcomes
Student in written Producer's Plan: - demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of theater operation and operation of cultural institutions and management,
- is deeply orientated in basic primary and secondary literature of the field including international sources,
- can design and perform relevant research to analyze data and use the conclusions of strategic management analyzes,
- is able to analyze, process, discuss, present, and evaluate interventions that materialize in the production plan (the level of intent is equivalent to the level of a feasibility and sustainability study)
- effectively utilizes knowledge of the environment and the international vocabulary of the field,
- within the framework of a Producer's Plan is able to create a strategic plan and translate it into long-term, mid-term, short-term and operational plans, reflecting the specificities of the environment in which art is being carried out, and applying creatively the expertise and methods of management, project management, management, economics and financial management, marketing, law, social sciences and international cultural policy, - at the same time can use the tools to implement these follow-up plans.
- can creatively handle the presentation and office applications, which is reflected in the quality of the processed Producer's Plan and its prepared presentation,
- is able to identify problem strings, to choose and to defend their own creative approaches to their solutions in the utmost respect to the external and internal environment.
Syllabus
  • The student works in the following timetable in the summer semester, which is slightly modified according to the current calendar of the respective academic year:
    1st - 3rd week of teaching: processing of intervention proposals based on the analytical part.
    4th week of teaching: presentation of the intervention proposals in the seminar. 5th - 6th week of teaching: elaboration of intervention proposals into scenarios and selection of strategic plan.
    Week 7: presentation of a strategic plan in a seminar.
    Weeks 8 to 9: elaboration of the strategic plan into long-term (3 years), medium and short-term plans.
    10th - 11th week of teaching: finalization of the Producer`s Plan.
    13th week of instruction: Practical presentation of the Producer`s Plan.
Literature
    required literature
  • Student využívá znalost literatury všech teoretických předmětů, které dosud absolvoval. Producentský záměr čerpá ze všech znalostí a pramenů, které nabízí jak magisterský stupeň studia, tak bakalářský.
Teaching methods
Regular teaching
Teaching methods:
- Mentoring,
- Work with text,
- Discussion method,
- Work with images,
- Critical thinking,
- Students' independent work.
The student works with detailed methodical material that is available in the student section within the educational information system.
Assessment methods
Credit based on the preparation, submission and presentation of the individual parts of the Producer's Plan according to the schedule.
Language of instruction
Czech
Teacher's information
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The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2024.
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