Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series Plano a Plano

In collaboration with Plano a Plano, leading production company in Spain
Frame of the webseries No me cargues el muerto, filmed at Nebrija University
Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series

Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series

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Student profile: The Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series is aimed at those who wish to develop a professional career planning and producing audiovisual entertainment products such as sitcoms, tv-movies or any other serial fiction format. In order to be admitted to the Master's degree, it is necessary to have an undergraduate degree, bachelor's degree, or equivalent. Our students normally come from the Undergraduate/Bachelor's degrees in Audiovisual Communication (70%), Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations, Fine Arts and Dramaturgy, among others.

Graduate profile: Professionals capable of planning, directing and producing fiction series episodes for broadcasting on television or other platforms. The Master's degree also prepares the student for the criticism and evaluation of projects of audiovisual entertainment narrative pieces; it creates profiles with a critical spirit, a solid academic background and the necessary skills of the double aspects of audiovisual production and critique.

Official Degree:Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series

Center responsible:Communication and Arts School

Branch of knowledge: Social and Legal Sciences

Openings available: 30

Total Credits:60 credits.
. Minimum of 12 ECTS credits and maximum of 60 ECTS credits per enrollment and academic period.

Academic year in which it was implemented: 2010 - 2011

Duration: From October to June

Quality of the degree

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Professional internships guaranteed at Plano a Plano

The Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series, in collaboration with the leading Spanish production company Plano a Plano, presents a curriculum that combines the aspects of directing and producing fiction series, from the analysis and preparation of scripts to the assembly and post-production of the recorded material, technical planning, work with the actors, adaptation of the sets, recording techniques, the work of the team members and the use of soundtracks.

Television series are the most consumed television entertainment product in recent years. Series such as Money Heist, Veneno, Elite, Euphoria, Game of Thrones, The Ministry of Time, Mad Men and Red Sky are watched by millions of viewers. Some of the professions that are needed to launch them are: director, producer, screenwriter, editor and copywriter.


Plano a Plano

Nebrija University and Plano a Plano come together to launch top-quality training for future filmmakers in the sector. Plano a Plano is an independent production company, leading in Spain, with great successes in fiction such as "Valeria", "Allí bajo", "Toy Boy" and "Servir y Proteger", as well as being the production company with the most selected titles in the MIM awards, in its 2020 edition.


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The teaching methodology is practical. It works primarily with materials filmed by the students themselves and with materials from fiction series and other film production companies, which are used for the analysis and simulation of film planning situations.

Students work with the material and technological resources available in the School of Communication and Arts (digital cameras, lighting and sound equipment and post-production rooms, among others). Occasionally, university extension activities take place at specialized companies.

Collaborating with Plano a Plano, the program's partner, generates numerous opportunities; in addition to all the Master's students having guaranteed internships in said production company, it allows the degree to have a staff of professors made up of highly prestigious professionals in every specialty, the use of the production company's or collaborating companies' facilities and materials, and allows students to carry out internships at the end of their studies and the permanent updating of the program's contents.

The Master's students design, plan and carry out a pilot for a fiction series, working not only on its creation, but also on its commercialization.

The Master's Final Research Project consists of the ideation and defense (pitch) of a fiction series before a tribunal made up of industry professionals. Second, the pilot episode of the pitched series will be recorded and edited. Finally, the academic proposal will include all the documentation used in the professional world (individual and collective report, script, lighting diagrams) and will be defended in the tribunal made up of the master's degree professors.

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Study at an international urban campus in the center of Madrid

Professional and international faculty

Teaching staff made up of professionals with a recognized track record in this field, such as David Molina, director of more than one hundred episodes of television fiction in series such as Vis a Vis, La Valla and Estoy vivo. Laura Pousa, screenwriter for 8 seasons of Cuéntame cómo pasó. Puerto Collado, regular art director for Julio Medem and Esther Agraso, Head of International Sales for Plano a Plano with productions such as Valeria, Desaparecidos and Servir y proteger.

Nebrija TV Channel

The students of the Master's degree have at their disposal an internet television called Nebrija TV Channel, where they can voluntarily create their own audiovisual content to develop the skills that every professional needs.

Among the 5 best

The program is the only Master's degree in Spain with this specialty, and is among the 5 best postgraduates in the audiovisual sector of the El Mundo newspaper ranking.

Curriculum


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All our degrees and curricula have been prepared in accordance with the new guidelines set by current legislation, having already been verified by the National Agency for Quality Assessment.
The student must take 60 credits


First semester 30 ECTS


  • From October to January, both included
  • 3 ECTS | Analysis and trends in contemporary fiction
  • 4 ECTS | Directing Fiction on Television
  • 4 ECTS | Organization and planning of the filming: technical script and storyboard
  • 3 ECTS | Assistant directors workshop
  • 3 ECTS | Script workshop for directors
  • 4 ECTS | Directing of actors and interpretation
  • 3 ECTS | Art direction: scenery, costumes and makeup
  • 4 ECTS | Directing photography
  • 2 ECTS | Digital edition and staging workshop

Second semester 30 ECTS


  • From January to June , both included
  • 6 ECTS | Recording techniques: filming
  • 2 ECTS | Sound design and soundtracks
  • 3 ECTS | Post-production workshop: effects, lettering, graphics and internet
  • 3 ECTS | Production direction: filming dynamics
  • 2 ECTS | Distribution and marketing
  • 2 ECTS | Elective: Film analysis
  • 2 ECTS | Elective: Practical applications to the freedom of creation
  • 4 ECTS | Professional internships: Professional guidance
  • 4 ECTS | Research Methodology in Communication Sciences: Academic Orientation
  • 8 ECTS | Master's Degree Final Project

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Employability


Professional internships

Plano a plano, an independent production company with a long history of successes in fiction such as "Valeria", Allí abajo", "Toy Boy" and "Servir y proteger", in addition to validating the academic process, guarantees that all Master's students of Nebrija University's Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series have guaranteed internships in said production company, which provides first-hand contact with the sector in aspects such as technical planning, actors, sets, filming techniques and the use of sound and music.

Career Opportunities

The faculty of the School of Communication and Arts is made up of professionals from each field of specialization, who carry out a teaching method based on the conviction that what we learn, we learn by doing it.

The integration with the profession is based on the incorporation of professionals as associate professors who endorse each program, in a teaching methodology inspired by the learning by doing proposal that affects the experiential aspect in the classrooms and in the academic extension activities.

The Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series has a close relationship with numerous production companies and fiction studios, which extends to all areas, from professors to the internship program.

The Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series trains professionals whose future work will be as:

  • Director of fiction series.
  • Producer of fiction series.
  • Assistant director of fiction series.
  • Director of entertainment television programs.
  • Producer of entertainment television programs.
  • Critic of fiction and/or entertainment spaces.

+ Internships

Nebrija University has signed a Collaboration Agreement regarding training and employment internships with nearly 3,000 companies and institutions, to promote the practical training of all its students and their introduction to the professional environment and first employment as university graduates.

These are some of the companies that students of the Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series can choose in order to carry out their internships and come into contact with the professional field, related to audiovisual direction and production:

Companies and institutions under educational cooperation agreement
  • Atresmedia Corporación de medios de comunicación S.A.
  • Adisar Media S. L.
  • Boomerang
  • Bambú
  • DTS Distribuidora de Televisión Digital S. A.
  • Sogecable S. A., Bacardí España S. A.
  • Uniprex TV S. L. U.
  • Antena 3 Noticias S. L. U.
  • 7 y Acción Producciones Audiovisuales
  • Alba Adriática S. L.
  • Antena 3 Multimedia S. L. U.
  • Boomerang TV S. A.
  • Cinema Republic
  • Conspiradores Producción Audiovisual
  • Ente Público de RTV Castilla La Mancha
  • Europa Press Delegaciones
  • Factoría Plural
  • Fox International Channels España
  • Los Lunares Casting
  • Leo Burnett Iberia
  • Medianews Producción de Noticias
  • Mediatem Canales Temáticos
  • Molinare
  • Mediapro
  • Miramón Mendi
  • Movistar +
  • Multicanal Iberia
  • Muwom S. L (Plan B)
  • Ogilvy Commonhealth
  • Palacios Films
  • Paloma Juanes
  • Grupo Smedia
  • Paladar Comunicación
  • Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión
  • Super NoveltyTelefónica Investigación y Desarrollo
  • Telson Servicios Audiovisuales
  • RTVE
  • The Hole Show
  • The Walt Disney Company
  • Thomson Reuters Markets España
  • Tool Kit Producciones
  • Top Seeds Lab
  • Vnews Agencia de Noticias
  • Warner Music Spain
  • BRB International
  • McCan Erickson S. A.
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Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series

The students of the Master's Degree in Direction and Production of Fiction Series of the 21/22 class offer us their testimonies of their experience during the academic year. In this case, students Diana Aller, Henar Sanguino and Benito Gutiérrez explain in depth what studying this master's degree has meant for them and the benefits obtained after attending Nebrija's School of Communication and Arts.

Nebrija Spoiler

Nebrija University's School of Communication and Arts organized the 1st Fiction Series Conference, Nebrija Spoiler (ESPÓILER), at the Madrid-Princesa Campus, with some of the best creators of current Spanish fiction series, such as Manolo Caro (La Casa de las Flores) and Daniel Retuerta (El Internado), who chatted with students and guests from the University.

Meeting with Rodrigo Sorogoyen, film director

The filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen visits the School of Communication Sciences and Arts of Nebrija University, sharing his experiences with students and professors.