MD Project
MD 401 Magdalena Kallenberger
JTA Rana Elgohary, Mohamed Aboelwafa
NEWS: 05.03.2012 course starts: 3rd-5th slot!
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." John Lennon
MD Project
EGYPT REVISITED - Challenging Reality
The course „Egypt revisited - Challenging Reality“ is an introduction into documentary film and video production. On the one side we will examine film excerpts throughout the history of documentary films, analyzing different approaches of storytelling and documentary practice. Throughout this course you will acquire conceptional competence for directing as well as technical skills to write a treatment, to set up, produce, edit and finalize your documentary video project.
Dear Students,
To take part in this course it is obligatory to attend
the LECTURE SERIES "Reflections on..."
Monday 4 PM in C3 Room 101
... the films we gonna watch and discuss are relating to our MD Project theme.
01 Assignment // Presentation // Documentary Approaches and History of Documentary Films
NEWS: please download the new credit file. It includes a GUC Logo that works on black background.
How your Credits should look like
MONDAY // 3. Slot // 12:30-14:00 // LECTURE & PRACTICAL // obligatory to attend for everyone
MONDAY // 4. Slot // 14:15-15:45 // PRACTICAL // obligatory to attend for everyone MONDAY // 5. Slot // 16:00-17:30/ // LECTURE SERIES// obligatory to attend for everyone
| Date | Topic | Practical | References | Assignments |
| March 05 | Intro: The symbiosis of Picture and Music | Intro: Clipbox | The Directors Label: Chris Cunningham, Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry. | 02 Assignment - CLIPBOX |
| March 12 | Fiction and Non-Fiction – EARLY FILMS (Salma Hisham) | Work in Progress Presentation | Travelogue films like
and "the first documentary film" | |
| March 19 | Cinematic Truth and Propaganda (Merna Karam) | Final Presentation | Leni Riefenstahls film Olympia and Triumph of the Will | |
| March 26 | Political Cinema (Raghda Bassyouni)
Cinéma Verité and Direct Cinema (Mohamed Hossam) | Intro: Poetry Film | Cinéma Vérité Style
Narration: Language, Sounds, Tones, Voices, Texts, Poetry and divers pictorial collages
| 03 Assignment - Poetry Film |
| April 02 | Mid-term exams | no teaching | ||
| April 09 | Modern Documentaries / Mondo Films & Animated Documentaries (Yasemine Hassan)
Documentaries without words (Salma Khodairy) | Bowling Truths
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| April 16 | Sham El Nessim | no teaching | ||
| April 23 | Essayfilm (Riham Sallam)
Modular Narratives (Sarah Bashandi) | |||
| April 30 | activity week | |||
| May 07 | Document, Documentation and Artist's Work (Moaz Mohmad)
Citzen Media & Participatory Video (Habiba Mohamed) | |||
| May 14 | Docudrama and Dokufiction (Menna Ehab)
Web Documentary - interactive & multimedia documentaries (Anne Fayek) | |||
| May 21 | Reality film, Doku-Soap and Mocumentary (Norhan Kamal) | Final Presentation |