MCFA Students Meet the "2nd Liberation Secrets" Documentary Staff
The Media Production Projects’ Department at the Faculty of Mass Communication and Fine Arts, Al Maaref University, organized a seminar with Producer Ali Aladdine and Director Mahdi Ghaddar to discuss the documentary film "The Secrets of Second Liberation" on Friday, April 1, 2022.
In this seminar, which it was a part of the Friday’s of Excellence Sessions, the two guests touched on the basics of documentary-making, its step by step stages, creative features, and all its fundamentals; from the pre-production stage to the post-production one.
The guests pointed to main roles of the director, producer, and the key steps of investigation needed to produce a documentary film such as researching, references identification and information processing. In this vein, both guests confirmed the significance of planning, securing equipment and filming sets, determining the appropriate visuals, and all other details related to the documentary filmmaking process.
The guests also went through the most prominent specifications and skills that the media personnel should possess in order to excel to produce a professional documentary film, as well as the challenges that the teamwork may face during the various stages of producing a documentary film.