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Do you have a Cairo Day story that you weren't able to finish writing? Did you miss a previous Cairo Day Celebration Week? Is this the first time you're hearing about a Cairo Day Celebration? Well, this is your chance. Introducing Cairo Day 6.5 (aka Cairo Day Reprise) August 5th-11th

Cairo Day is a week-long MacGyver fandom celebration which usually takes place during the week of April 14th, the airdate of the season one finale. This event has been ongoing since 2019 and every year we hear from people who weren't able to finish the projects they were working on. While we will always happily accept "late" stories, artwork, gifs etc. we also recognize the appeal and hype of working toward a goal or deadline.

Posted below are all the prompts from the previous six years. As all these prompts were submitted and voted on by the participants there were some repeats and we have included them. You can fill as many or as few as you would like. You can do all the prompts from one year or mix and match your favorites. The fandom may not be as active as we were once upon a time but we're still around.

2019

Family 

Best Friends 

The Sandbox

Sickfic 

Close Calls 

Blood Brothers 

Return to Cairo

2020

Family

Improvise Day

This is Going to Hurt

Outsider POV

In Sickness and in Health

The Ties that Bind

AU

2021

If You Go Kaboom, I Go Kaboom | Kidnapped

Tell Me Where it Hurts | Army Days

Improvise

I Have an Idea and You’re Not Going to Like It | Warmth

Jack Lives | Hurt/Comfort

Murdoc  |

Faked Death  | Sandbox

2022

Jack Lives

Fever

Hurt/Comfort

Tell Me Where it Hurts

Undercover/Secret Identity

Found Family

Bedside Vigil

2023

Answer Me

Hidden Injury

Respiratory Distress

Sandbox

Improvise

Is That Blood?

The worst things (To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.)

2024

Collapse | Eclipse

Crash Course  | Hidden Injury

Polaroid | Swim With the Fishes

Midnight Rituals  | Jack Lives

Shot | Locked In

In Flight | Shh, You’re Okay Now

Photo prompts:

2022

2023

2024

The next time I attempt to make people cry is when I create a tsukasa w/ Kaito and miku cover of 88 stars. But making it so that it sounds like Kaito and miku are singing in response to Tsukasa.

Just a little challenge for all you artists out there.

Draw a character in a style from the above mentioned categories. (last panel is for the character’s original look)

Channel that retro spirit, and show the world how versatile you can be.

Drawing from films

Drawing from films is a ridiculously useful exercise. It’s not enough to watch films; it’s not enough to look at someone else’s drawings from films. If you want to be in story, there’s no excuse for not doing this.

The way this works: you draw tons of tiny little panels, tiny enough that you won’t be tempted to fuss about drawing details. You put on a movie - I recommend Raiders, E.T., or Jaws… but honestly if there’s some other movie you love enough to freeze frame the shit out of, do what works for you. It’s good to do this with a movie you already know by heart.

Hit play. Every time there’s a cut, you hit pause, draw the frame, and hit play til it cuts again. If there’s a pan or camera move, draw the first and last frames.

Note on movies: Spielberg is great for this because he’s both evocative and efficient. Michael Bay is good at what he does, but part of what he does is cut so often that you will be sorry you picked his movie to draw from. Haneke is magnificent at what he does, but cuts so little that you will wind up with three drawings of a chair. Peter Jackson… he’s great, but not efficient. If you love a Spielberg movie enough to spend a month with it, do yourself a favor and use Spielberg.

What to look for:

Foreground, middle ground, background: where is the character? What is the point of the shot? What is it showing? What’s being used as a framing device? How does that help tie this shot into the geography of the scene? Is the background flat, or a location that lends itself to depth?

Composition: How is the frame divided? What takes up most of the space? How are the angles and lines in the shot leading your eye?

Reusing setups, economy: Does the film keep coming back to the same shot? The way liveaction works, that means they set up the camera and filmed one long take from that angle. Sometimes this includes a camera move, recomposing one long take into what look like separate shots. If you pay attention, you can catch them.

Camera position, angle, height: Is the camera fixed at shoulder height? Eye height? Sitting on the floor? Angled up? Down? Is it shooting straight on towards a wall, or at an angle? Does it favor the floor or the ceiling?

Lenses: wide-angle lens or long lens? Basic rule of thumb: If the character is large in frame and you can still see plenty of their surroundings, the lens is wide and the character is very close to camera. If the character’s surroundings seem to dwarf them, the lens is long (zoomed in).

Lighting: Notice it, but don’t draw it. What in the scene is lit? How is this directing your eye? How many lights? Do they make sense in the scene, or do they just FEEL right?

This seems like a lot to keep in mind, and honestly, don’t worry about any of that. Draw 100 thumbnails at a time, pat yourself on the back, and you will start to notice these things as you go.

Don’t worry about the drawings, either. You can see from my drawings that these aren’t for show. They’re notes to yourself. They’re strictly for learning. 

Now get out there and do a set! Tweet me at @lawnrocket and I’ll give you extra backpats for actually following through on it. Just be aware - your friends will look at you super weird when you start going off about how that one shot in Raiders was a pickup - it HAD to be - because it doesn’t make sense except for to string these other two shots together…

Y’all hear me out,,,

• Pirate Kurt

• Cowboy Logan

• Cyberpunk Scott

• Scene Jubilee

(• Ororo can do whatever she wants, she’s a badass Queen who pulls off every look she’s ever worn)

• Emo Southern Rogue

• Academia Jean Gray

• Punk/Grunge Morph

Now here’s where things get interesting:

I am a mediocre artist who is willing to draw this. I am willing to bring this to life.