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Poison Popcorn

swinburne advanced diploma of screen graduates

Tasty, butter-coated and with a dash of Poison ... Poison Popcorn, a screening of work from the 2008 graduates of the Advanced Diploma of Screen (Digital Film and Television), Swinburne University of Technology TAFE Division - Prahran campus.

This event will showcase the talent of film and television graduates to industry professionals, potential employers, family and friends, and the general public.

Enjoy a variety of tasty flavours - short films, documentaries, music clips, and much more. This is a free event, all welcome. Enjoy a handful.

Dates: Tues 25th Nov, 6pm for 6.30pm start
location: cinemas
admission: Free, Tickets available from the Box Office

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considering taking this subject over summer

702-334 Rendering as a Graphic Communication

Demonstrations and studio practice in advanced techniques of architectural rendering, ranging from conceptual drawing to presentation drawings of buildings in their contexts. Different media will be used, and compared for their potential to communicate ideas at various stages in the design process.

On completion of the subject students should be able to:

• Understand the basic laws of perspective and apply these readily in freehand drawing

• Produce finished architectural renderings in colour suitable for presentations to others

• Understand the geometry of casting shadows and to use this skill to show form in architecural rendering

• Appreciate the importance of light as an active element in architecture through the rendering of forms in light, shade and shadow

• Use different drawing projection systems including isometric and axonometric projections

• Draw simple entourage (mainly people, vegetation and cars) to give a sense of scale and context in rendering

• Use color appropriately in rendering

• Use skills in graphic composition

• Handle techniques for different manual graphic media including graphite and coloured pencil, marker pens and watercolour

• Identify the essential visual characteristics of buildings and the spaces around them before attempting to communicate these graphically

Assessment

Two major renderings and a review of a folio of all workshop exercises equivalent to not more than 5000 words.