MOMI Trip

The Museum of Moving Image trip was a very fun and interesting trip. It was interesting and enjoyable making animation clips, seeing the artifacts from popular movies such as Black Swan, and looking at film cameras of different eras. One of my favorite parts of the trip was seeing the Feral Fount, by Gregory Barsamian, which played with lighting and perception. Because of the flashing lights and the constant motion, it gave the allusion that the viewer is seeing a drop of water turn into a bomb and then into a paper airplane that breaks a plate at the bottom of the sculpture. Then, when the lights came back on, it just looked like a spinning object again. It was pretty shocking and I was immersed by it. I also enjoyed looking at all the different sounds that went into making "Titanic", like dialogue, background noise, and sound effects. Playing with those sounds on Final Cut was enjoyable and showed how important sound can be to the emotional response to a film. Adding or decreasing certain sounds made the scene more powerful. For example, the adding of a musical score to a scene of Titanic made it more breathtaking and emotionally intense. Without the sound, it would have fallen flat. The Museum of Moving Image was actually quite entertaining and I hope I can go back someday.