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Media and Filmmaking for Architects

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    By the end of the course overall aims should be achieved as follows: • Enrich the student's basic knowledge about digital computer Modeling software and methods. • Develop the student's ability to use the most famous architectural software to generate architectural models. • Train students to specify the most suitable software to produce their digital models according to their needs
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Climate Action

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    This course introduces the basics of visual storytelling, directing cast and crew, and organizing a film production, including concepts of narrative structure and production protocol. The course highlights the basics of scriptwriting and filmmaking techniques to create film projects, including management skills in directing and producing. The course introduces the fundamentals of video and sound editing and audio creation used for multimedia content for different uses.
  • Arabic Description

    This course introduces the basics of visual storytelling, directing cast and crew, and organizing a film production, including concepts of narrative structure and production protocol. The course highlights the basics of scriptwriting and filmmaking techniques to create film projects, including management skills in directing and producing. The course introduces the fundamentals of video and sound editing and audio creation used for multimedia content for different uses.
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (10) + tr.Student Activities (55 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 30% , tr.Self_learning 15% , tr.Seminar 10% ) + Exam Grade (35)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    75
  • Equivalent ECTS
    3
  • Recommended books
  • - Algorithmic Architecture, by Kostas Terzidis, Routledge, 2016
  • - Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications By Umut Toker, Taylor and Francis, 2022
  • - Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi (Author), Brian Johnson (Afterword), Robert Woodbury (Foreword), Quercus Publishing, 2013
  • - AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo TedeschiLe, Penseur Publisher, 2014
  • - BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers, and Contractors by Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, and Kathleen Liston, Wiley, 2018
  • - Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice by Karen Kensek and Douglas Noble, John Wiley & Sons, 2014
  • - BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice by Randy Deutsch (Author), Wiley, 2011
  • Periodicals, Web sites, … etc
  • - https://grasshopper.com/
  • - https://www.grasshopper3d.com/
  • - https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/bim - Troiani I Campbell H. Architecture Filmmaking. Bristol UK: Intellect Books; 2020.