Film
and Television
The
National College of Arts has recently started department of Film &
Television and enrolled students for the first session 2005-2009.
The department is presently offered a 4 year bachelor degree program
in Film & Television Production and will soon launch a one year
postgraduate Diploma program in Script & Screenplay Writing. The
department is also planning to offer other certificate/ diploma course
and a master’s degree program in future.
The need for this department and its degree program was felt because
of the rapid expansion of the film & television media in the region
over the last decade. “International Media Giants,” globalization
of television media and acculturation due to foreign film and video
materials is presenting a threat to our cultural identity in the new
global village. Film & Television mediums demand for a precise
seminal approach to help shape our cultural and emotional identity
and responsibility as people of Pakistan and South Asia. There is
a need to voice our native sensitivities and emotions in the dominant
global media scene and cut off prolonged intellectual neglect which
is only possible through preparing professionals of outstanding caliber.
NCA courses aim at preparing graduates with the caliber of practice
indispensable for producing the artistic and professional moving images
that are in great demand. The curriculum and disciplines (film, drama,
documentary, news & current affairs, and such others) would also
phase in discourse on cultural effects, cultural identities and other
communication issues in the new global village. The curriculum, the
disciplines and the existing NCA environment will help enlarge students
vision by triggering erratic multiple layers of creative, intuitive
and intellectual thought processes, and seed a mastery of form, content
and structures as well as solid fundamentals with the integration
of digital media which has globally created its own space and entered
all motion picture mediums like film, video and television. The focus
will be on broadening the student’s vision, global understanding,
competence and skills. There is no institution of substance for a
serious, in-depth understanding of the requirements of film and television
medium in Pakistan. And it is, thus, the obligation and commitment
of NCA to face up to this challenge and be among the pioneers in institutionalizing
formal training in film and television.
NCA, as a college of arts will also benefit from this program. The
incorporation of motion picture (film and television) courses will
reinforce the existing teaching of visual arts and audio arts at NCA,
for two reasons. Firstly, a living proof that multi perception elements,
which are audio and visual perception in case of Film & TV, reinforce
each other by enhancing the overall aesthetic perception or impact.
The present teaching at NCA needs this significant internal link between
the two perceptions. Therefore, the inclusion of Film and Television
courses (and general film theory, storytelling and aesthetic) will
establish this link between audio and visual forms (and perceptions)
in a multidimensional manner.
Secondly, NCA needs to explore the possibilities for revival of mental,
emotional, social and cultural expression of the east through more
indigenous native sensitivities, local ideas and emotions while utilizing
film and television media. The incorporation of Eastern sensitivities
to Western techniques of production will widen and enrich our aesthetic
canvas and balance those prevailing from the West. Thus, making the
teaching and learning of film and television art at NCA a vibrant,
ingenious and comprehensive process.
In developing this program, NCA has incorporated advice and suggestions
of film and television professionals and institutions. Several film
and television workshops were conducted at NCA to assess student’s
response and to identify future faculty and the results were satisfactory.
These workshops were conducted by some national and international
film and television professionals of repute and included ‘Documentary
Film Production’ by Shireen Pasha, ‘Basics of Film Production’
by Feryal Gauhar, ‘A to Z of Film Production’ by Usmaan
Peerzada, ‘Screenplay Writing for Feature Film’ by Prof.
Wolfgang Laengsfeld, ‘Spanish Cinema’ by Don Oscar Peyrou
- Spanish film expert accompanying the Spanish film festival, ‘Scriptwriting
for Television’ by Haseena Moin and ‘Documentary Production’
by Kohei Iwasaki, television expert/Senior Volunteer, Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA). The workshops were a great success and
with the setting up of the Department of Film and Television, NCA
is able to address the need of the country and the industry and offer
education in the field of film & television in an organized and
systematic manner.
Assistant Professor
Mr. Majid Saeed Khan
M.A. Multimedia Arts (NCA)
Sound Design (France) T
OFFICIATING HEAD
Maryam Khan
MS. Film and Tv (Austrailia)
Mr. Tausif Zain ul Abedin
M.A. Economics (GC)
Lecturer
Mr. Abid Ahsan
M.A. Multimedia Arts (NCA)
Admin Support
Muhammad Usman
Aslam
Adjunct
Facutly
Professor Shireen Pasha
N.D.D. (NCA)
GS History of Arts (SUNY Binghamton, USA)
Professor Arif Ali Arif
M.A. Urdu Literature & Language
M.A. Journalism
Ayesha Kamal
Batol Sarfraz
Ishaq Chudaray
S. M Anwar
Salman Shahid
Vasi Hassan
Maryam Khan
Armughan Hassan Nawaz
Zaibun Pasha
Shoaib Zaheer Malik
Haroon John
Kashif Malik
Tanveer Rehman
Zeshan Manzoor
