Production and Media Business
Heads:
Professor Dr. Herbert Kloiber
Professor Manfred Heid
In 1988 the University added a third degree program, Production and Media Business. The eight-semester study scheme trains producers, media managers and production managers.
In addition to the prerequisites listed under Admission requirements we recommend that applicants to the Production and Media Business program have either secured a related qualifying degree – for example, through a multi-semester course of studies in business or economics – or have had relevant professional training.
Applicants should also have acquired, through occasional hands-on media-business involvement, a clear idea of the professional field for which they intend to train at the University.
Core curriculum elements are:
- production process: from story idea to broadcast or premiere
- structure of the media industry in Germany, including European and international perspectives
- selected legal areas, such as copyright, contract and employment law, etc.
- select business topics, incl. accounting and the writing of business plans
- introductions to marketing and market research
As well as:
- story development; quality criteria; screenplay and film analyses, according to aesthetic as well as economic criteria
Practical experience is an essential component of the Production and Media Business curriculum. For this reason, internships are compulsory – a total of twenty-one weeks of hands-on work with production companies, film distributors or sales companies, film laboratories and technical service companies – as well as the collaboration on two HFF student films.