Blog # 4: MOMI Trip

Our visit to the Museum of Moving Images enhanced my understanding of film production, as well as how the evolution of technology has impacted the way films are edited today where everything is computer-based.  I was amazed to learn that in most films, small models are used to represent things that are too expensive to construct, such as the castles and the luxurious buildings we often see in movies.  Camera angles, such as high or low angles help the models appear real.  I also learned that the dialogue in films is many times reproduced due to background noises or inaccuracy.  A computer-based interactive experiences we had, was recording our own voices over dialogue from a film, following the same lines and procedures,  actors use in post-production.  I also learned of the artifacts of early production, such as film and television cameras, and television sets.  Early television sets were chunky and made out of wood, and the screens were very small.  The televisions were part of big, wooden chests that could be opened and closed.  With the evolution of technology, televisions became more modern, they were no longer chunky and the screens were bigger, but still displayed white and black images.  Today, technology has become so advanced that our televisions are no longer chunky and wooden, but thin plasmas that display high definition, colored images.  I also enjoyed seeing the Thaumatrope and Zoetrope devices in person and see how with simply spinning these devices, motion images are created from an optical illusion.