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On the recommendation of the Faculty Board of Architecture and History of Art, the subject Architecture and the Moving Image has been approved by the General Board and the Board of Graduate Studies, with effect from 1 October 1999, as a subject for further study and training in research for the M.Phil. Degree (one-year course). Special regulations for the examination in that subject have been approved as follows:
1. The scheme of examination for the one-year course of study in Architecture and the Moving Image for the degree of Master of Philosophy shall consist of:
| (a) | a moving image project, of not more than five minutes' duration, on a subject approved by the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art; |
| (b) | two essays, each of not more than 5,000 words in length, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliography and filmography, on subjects approved by the Degree Committee; |
| (c) | a dissertation of not more than 10,000 words in length, including footnotes and appendices but excluding bibliography and filmography, on a subject approved by the Degree Committee, together with (i) a script, storyboard, or sketch book of not more than thirty A4 pages and (ii) a moving image project of not more than fifteen minutes' duration. |
2. At the discretion of the Examiners, the examination may include an oral examination on the dissertation and on the general field of knowledge within which it falls.
The course of study leading to this examination will be as follows:
The course will explore the way in which moving-image language narrates space, translating three-dimensional reality or graphic environments into two-dimensional screen art, together with the way in which architecture generates three-dimensional visions inside the computer, creating walk-throughs and animations which also demand a narrative structure. Students will be offered a comprehensive historical account of the architectural treatment of screen space through the study of the history and practice of documentary film, feature film, and other moving-image work, and will acquire a theoretical and practical understanding of moving-image language and narrative conventions. Throughout the course, and in the assessment, equal weight will be given to theory and practice.
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Cambridge University Reporter, 28 April 1999
Copyright © 1999 The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.