First name, surname in 3 minutes - an audiovisual self-portrait: That was the title of the exam assignment in the major Music and Audiovisual Media in the 2010/11 winter semester. The task consisted of the conceptual design, realisation and presentation of a three-minute self-portrait using audiovisual media. It could be a film for Vimeo or Youtube, an audiovisual intro for the person's own website, part of a digital business card or a three-minute self-portrait for a fictional television programme whose concept includes young musicians/artists introducing themselves.

Volker Bertelmann aka Hauschka is a pianist and contemporary composer from Duesseldorf. In this portrait he reveals his way of working, speaks about his approach to improvisation and tells of his experiences as a live musician. The film was produced by Christian Kruse (direction), Jonathan Lang (camera), Marcus Reineboth (sound) and Lukas Truniger (post-production) as part of the core module Music and AV Production, supervised by Prof. Manfred Waffender.

In Robert – die letzten Jahre (Robert – the last years) classical music is combined with video art. On the videos that were produced by several IMM students, musicians of the Robert Schumann School of Music and Media played pieces from the last years of Robert Schumann. Simon Stimberg (camera), Peter Thoma (sound) and Fabian Scharpf (cutting, editing) accompanied the project from the rehearsals to the performance in October 2010, conducted interviews and looked behind the scenes. The Making Of was produced as part of the module AV and Music Production 1 under Prof. Manfred Waffender.

The Cologne-based Minguet String Quartet is one of the most sought-after ensembles of our day. One of its major goals is to introduce the audience to music by new, unknown composers or forgotten works of old masters. In 2010, its recording of the Ruzicka quartets was awarded the ECHO Klassik.

Over a period of four months, the quartet was captured on film in its various activities by Maximilian Dietel and Simon Hildenbrand. The 36-minute artist portrait was created as part of the Video 2 exam under Prof. Manfred Waffender.

The opera was in the focus of the  Opera Class at Robert Schumann School of Music and Media in the summer of 2010. It was performed in the school's Partika-Saal. An altogether 36-person multi-camera team from the IMM accompanied all six performances over eight days. The aim of the activity was the production of a programme suitable for livestream broadcasting via the university's Internet portal. Presented here are some typical excerpts from the fifth performance. The recording was made as part of the Studio Work Video 2 exam under Prof. Manfred Waffender. Direction was by IMM student Christian Leykam.

On 24 November 2009, the University Orchestra of Robert Schumann School of Music and Media in Düsseldorf, under the baton of Prof. Rüdiger Bohn, performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf. The concert was recorded by the IMM's own 23-person multi-camera team. The excerpt presented here is the symphony's fourth movement. The recording was produced as part of the KWPF G examination under Prof. Manfred Waffender in the 2010 summer semester. Direction was by IMM student Christian Leykam.

Documentation by Stephanie von Fragstein on Approximation 7:1, the piano festival held annually in Düsseldorf. The film shows interviews and excerpts from the concerts held in the year 2009. The filming took place from 7 to 10 October 2009 in the Salon des Amateurs. Produced as part of the Video 2 exam under Prof. Manfred Waffender and Volker Anding.

The Soul of Dance is a benefit dance gala aimed at supporting children with cancer. In terms of diversity and professionalism, the gala has become increasingly perfect over the years and is today without rival in Germany. The IMM recorded the four-hour dance gala with the aid of the IMM broadcasting van, the new Steadycam and a team consisting of many IMM students headed by Philippe Waldecker (production manager / film director) and Uli Kohlmann (technical director), as well as former IMM students and a camerawoman studying Camera at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences. The end-product - a triple DVD with Making Of - was produced as part of an artistic elective subject under Prof. Manfred Waffender and Ulla Barthold.

A short documentary film about the band by the name of Strawberry Fields. With this film, Martin Dannhauser undertakes a journey into his own past. He meets his former fellow band members and talks with them about the band that dominated the youth of its five members. Why did the band split up? Why didn’t Strawberry Fields manage to reach a bigger audience? What was special about Strawberry Fields?

Created as part of Music and AV Production 1 under Professor Manfred Waffender.

The advertising film by Stephan Telaar was created as part of the exam for the Music and AV Production 1 course under Prof. Manfred Waffender and Volker Anding. A large number of students at the Institute For Music And Media were involved in the project, including Markus Roser (music), Andrew Mottl (sound design), Björn Mauder (sound engineering and mixing), Florian Hermanns (lighting) and Severin Schultze (grading).

"Strange places there are, strange brains, strange regions of the mind, high and impoverished..." (Thomas Mann)

A film essay by Florian Hermanns. The work was created in the 2009/10 winter semester as part of the Music and AV Production 1 course.

Jeder für Sich (Everyone for Himself) was created as an Video 2 exam by IMM student Johan Leenders, which he co-directs with his brother Philip, under Professor Manfred Waffender. The film music was also composed by the two brothers. The 75-minute film looks at the generation of the 18 to 35-year-olds, asking about their problems and anxieties, their hopes and dreams, and whether they have a common generational feeling.

People of different age groups talk about how it feels to live today, in a time of media abundance and economic uncertainty. Is it possible in a situation like this for people to develop a sense of belonging together, or is it still a case of Jeder für Sich? The excerpt shown here is the first 18 minutes of the film.

Videotourblog is a marketing tool for musicians and music groups. It creates a visual tour diary through a series of short films, presenting a portrait of the artiste and allowing the fans to go along on the journey. Jakob Storm tested the concept with his group, Dickes B, as part of his Video 2 exam with Prof. Manfred Waffender. Six parts were created which were shown on the Internet and used to publicise the new album Original. The animations of the group members were the work of designers Christian Kiriakidis and Felix Demandt. The complete result can be viewed here.

Anne Camina produced the music video "Yellow yellow" for the Berlin-Cologne band project "Geneva Prodigy Child", made up of Carsten Hartmann (vocals, lyrics), Anne Camina (guitar, songwriting, recording and music production) and guest musicians including Michael Dorniak (bass, drums).

The film was produced as part of the Video II exam for professor Manfred Waffender. It was shot on Super8 and DV. Cologne 2009. Subject: In deep contemplation a young man has an encounter, suffers rejection and finally finds his release in transcendency.

How invincible does the ocean seem to a small paper boat? Pitted against it is the silver kite which makes its laps at a breezy height. Yet as soon as it loses contact with the earth, it wobbles about erratically. The paper boat succeeds in running ashore at a coast far away. It has brought with it many stories and emotions from its journey. Two images. And two people who are looking for themselves.

This music video for the band Elane was produced in 2009 as the Video 2 exam of Markus Skroch, supervised by IMM assistant professor Volker Anding.

The film Düsseldorf Sounds documents the two-day festival at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in October 2007 and allows the most diverse musical artists from Düsseldorf to have their say. It was produced in 2008 as the Video 2 exam of Fabian Schulz and Jonas Hummel at the Institut Fuer Musik und Medien (Institute for Music and Media), Duesseldorf, supervised by Prof Manfred Waffender.

Extract from a 30-minute documentary about the music of the Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa on the occasion of his visit to the University of Music Duesseldorf in November 2006. It was produced by Beate Meinert and Florian Ruckeisen as part of their Video 2 exam taken with Prof Manfred Waffender.

As part of their Video 2 exam, Corbinian Beitelstein (direction) and Jindrich Maßner (production) documented the concert tour of Essen cathedral's girls' choir and the students of the University of Music Duesseldorf to Italy on the occasion of the blessing of the new organ in Sant' Anna di Stazzema, which was destroyed in one of the worst massacres by German SS soldiers in Italy on 12 August 1944. 63 years later an organ can be heard once again in the small village thanks to the initiative of the German musician couple Maren and Horst Westermann.

They were supported by IMM students Jakob Storm, Stefan Hill (camera) and David Schwager (audio). The project was supervised by IMM professor Manfred Waffender.

A team of 23 IMM students taped a Students are playing for Students concert on the 12th of February 2008 at Partikasaal of the University of Music, Duesseldorf. Production was supervised by IMM assistant professors Robert Gummlich and Ulla Barthold. The theme Unschlagbar- rund ums Schlagzeug (Unbeatable - all about drums) was amongst others supported by a 10-piece drum ensemble. Directed by IMM student Benjamin Simon.

Drummer Andy Gillmann is presenting a ten-chapter-workshop on the educational DVD TOP10 GROOVES AND BEATS concerning his concept of developing new grooves. The DVD was produced on five cameras in the IMM studios. The DVD features split-screens, sheet-music plates and tutorials for self-teaching, as well as a choice between German and English language sound. The DVD was produced as a Video 2 exam with Prof. Manfred Waffender. It is out now in LEU-Verlag publishing. The DVD was directed, edited and DVD-authored by Andrew Mottl, Sound: Julian David.

A metaphor made out of clay by Stephanie von Fragstein.

Produced as a Video 1 exam "self-portrait" supervised by Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Prof. Manfred Waffender.

"Führt ein unterirdischer Gang zur Küche ?..." (Is an underground passage leading towards the kitchen?...) The clip was presented alongside various video-clips, photos and objects during the three day installation "Archive Myself – ein Selbstportrait" ("Archive Myself – a Self-Portrait) by Jonas Hummel. The clip was produced in Prof. Manfred Waffender's Video 1 exam class.

The self-portrait by Dominik Hildebrand was presented as an installation, produced as a Video 1 exam, supervised by Prof. Manfred Waffender.

Autumn 2005 - The Orchestra of Düsseldorf University goes on a three-week tour of Asia. Under the musical direction of Silke Löhr, they perform works of Beethoven, Wagner, Schumann and Bizet in the megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo. The tour is also accompanied by six students on the Sound and Video Engineering degree course. Under the guidance of Prof. Manfred Waffender and with Alexander Bach directing, the result is a 60-minute documentary that tells the story of a journey and its adversities. But additionally, and not least, west music east also documents six unforgettable concerts and tells of the unreserved enthusiasm of the Chinese and Japanese audiences.

In September 2005, a six-person film team made up of students from the audio and video engineering study course under the leadership of Prof. Manfred Waffender accompanied the orchestra of Düsseldorf University on a three-week trip to China and Japan and produced the 60-minute music film west music east. The makers of west music east tell the story of how the film came about. Making of by Rainer Bühl, a bassoonist in the orchestra and one of the organizers of the tour, was completed in autumn 2009 and was the subject of his Video 2 exam.

Extracts from a 50-minutes documentation on film sound in Hollywood by Tobias Poppe.

Produced as a video exam in Prof. Manfred Waffender's video II programme.

Music video for the Cologne hiphop group Dickes B. The scenes in the lift were created as an exercise in the Visual Studio Work course under Prof. Manfred Waffender.

Direction: Corbinian Beitelstein and Jan Keuthmann. Camera: Stefan Hill and Jana Langenbruch. Production managers: Jindrich Maßner and Jakob Storm.

Extract from the multi-camera recording (supervision: Robert Gummlich) of the student orchestra of the University of Music Duesseldorf's concert. Conducted by Prof. Rüdiger Bohn. Directed by: Stefan Jähner.

Extract from a 60-minutes long film about Andreas Simon's one-year-stay in San Francisco. Produced as a video exam II, supervised by Prof. Manfred Waffender.

Extract from a 40-minutes long film about film sound in Japan. Directed by Johann Bömer. Produced as a video exam II, supervised by Prof. Manfred Waffender.

Extracts from a studio-recording of Johannes Brahms piano quartett in g-minor, Opus No. 25, interpreted by musicians of the University of Music Düsseldorf, conducted by Prof. Georg Friedricht Schenk. The recording originated in a rehersal in the studio work programme by Prof. Manfred Waffender.

Multi-camera recording of the song "Alliteration" by Steven Schlömer & Band. This was the introduction of the broadcasting van in July 2006 at the IMM.

Mathias Niepenberg travelled with his father to Canada, searching for traces of stories he lived through as a young immigrant. "Immigrant landed" is the title of the 50-minutes-documentary feature shot on the journey. Prof. Manfred Waffender supervised the film-project for Fachprüfung Bild II (video II project examination) as an executive producer.

abgedreht (nuts) - a study on patrichalic-monotonous performativity in the intertextual space. Short film by Anne Camina (alias A.Eckert). Produced as an exam in Bild 1 (video I), 2006.

Supervision: Prof. Manfred Waffender.

Cinematography: Peter Opper, Sound: Michael Dorniak, Jan Mallmann, Anne Carmina, Editing: George Cifteli (b/w, 06:34 min.)

Short film by Steffen Berlipp produced as a Video II exam. Supervision: Prof. Manfred Waffender, Media Dramaturgy.

Actors: Michaela Aue und Kirstin Hesse, Cinematography: Andreas Artelt, Sound: Johann Bömer, Editing: Daniela Roos, Music: Marc Brenken, Minerva Diaz Pérez and Alexander Morsey.

"Lecker Sachen" (Tasty Stuff), that ist dudeling and jabbering, folky fiddles and phat beats – or folk and Hip-hop. This portrait of the such-called Cologne band originates from 2004 and was produced for the Video II exam by Matthias Ruge.

Cinematography: Jonas Dickmeis (FH Dortmund), Sound: Peter Lorenz.

"Katharsis" by the band Stigma. Music video clip by Aleksander Bach and Bodo Eckert. Video II exam, 2005.

Cinematography: Justina Feicht, Editing: Bodo Eckert, 3D: Felix Ulber, Compositing: Henning Hagemann.

Clip out of a 23-minute documentation entitled "Der Geräuschemacher" (The Foley Artist) by Imke Bartmann and Sebastian Schumacher. The film was produced in 2004 for the Video II exam.

is the title of a music video that was produced by Aleksander Bach aka Alitron on his own music in 2004 being a Video II exam.

Clip out of a live recording at an unplugged concert of the band Die Happy. The assignment is 36 minutes long and was produced in 2004 by Martin Schütze and Matthias Tröndle for the Video II exam.