Condé Nast College launches new online courses
Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design is thrilled to announce the launch of two new online courses in Business & Entrepreneurship: Fashion, Media & Creative Industries and Fashion, Image Making & Shoot Production starting on the 18th of October.
These two new online courses have been carefully curated to help you learn a specialised skill set and gain a deeper understanding of two career pathways within the fashion and media industries, all from the ease of your home. Each course brings together experienced academics, unique industry insights and connections to our online platform – giving you an insight into the CNC student experience and providing an ideal route into other Condé Nast courses at higher levels.
Opportunity to Network
Despite these courses being online, this does not hinder your opportunity to network and engage with others on your chosen course. As part of the course you will have:
- Live sessions with the course leader
- Discussion forums as part of coursework
- Messaging system where course attendees can communicate with each other
Business & Entrepreneurship: Fashion, Media & Creative Industries
This new online course is designed with budding entrepreneurs in mind, who are starting their own business in the fashion, media, and/or creative industry sector. This is an exciting opportunity to explore what is involved in developing new business ideas, examining the marketplace you are about to launch into and how your new business can best engage and serve your target audience.
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Course Overview
The Business & Entrepreneurship: Fashion, Media & Creative Industries online course focuses on helping you develop a clear business model through providing an introduction to the field’s key market trends, business models, types of business, and the entrepreneurial mindset. You will further learn how to recognise opportunities, identify competitors, how to develop the all important elevator pitch and how to write an effective business plan.
Skills Achieved by the end of the course
- A broad introductory knowledge of business innovation
- How to research the potential of a new business idea
- How to start a fashion business
- How to write a business plan
- How to recognise and target a chosen audience
- Pitching your business idea
Image Making & Shoot Production
This course provides an introduction to fashion images and how shoot producers bring together the final image. Designed for those seeking to explore the inner workings of how the production of fashion editorials happens, how images are influenced by culture and the way a creative shoot can elevate a creative editorial and advertising image.
Each week you will participate in a variety of activities combining both individual and group work. You will learn to identify key fashion image makers and the process of shoot production – from scouting location and talent, to building your shoot production team – to achieve that all important image.
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Skills Achieved by the end of the course
- A broad introductory knowledge of the history of fashion images
- The social and cultural drivers of change in fashion imagery
- Elements of shoot production
Click here to apply for your place on the Image Making & Shoot Production course
By the end of both courses, those who complete and pass all the course tasks and assessments will receive a Condé Nast Certificate of Achievement.