I had a lot of fun at Museum of Moving Image with our tour guide. She showed us a couple of exhibits. The first exhibit she showed us was Music. She selected a scene from an old film, where an old man was observing a lady viewing a painting. The subject of the painting was the lady at a younger age. There were a couple of soundtrack options for us to match with the scene. We all agreed on a classical, more somber choice of music. I discovered that this specific aspect of media production is very important because matching the wrong music will set the wrong mood.
Moving on to the sound effects / Foley effects, we watched a scene from the Simpsons. One of the Simpsons was taking a test and there were a couple of the acts that required appropriate sound effects: the clock ticking, her scratching and erasing the test paper, the unicycle bouncing, the lights flickering, and the eyebrows twitching. This exercise was little harder because some of the acts had more than one choice of appropriate sound effects. The group I was in had disagreements on which sound effect was more appropriate. I discovered that this specific aspect of media production is tricky, especially with foley effects when you have to find right objects to make the sounds.
We also went to the exhibit where dialogues, music and sound effects all play into part. The tour guide first showed a scene from the Titanic when it was sinking with complete sounds. Then she played the scene with only dialogue, then only music, and finally only sound effects. We realized that the dialogue was a voice over because it didn't match the actors' lip movements. We also realized that the sound effects were mostly foley effects. The had to use a backward lion roar, shot gun sounds, elephant sounds etc. I was intrigued to watch the scene separately to see how it came to life.
I definitely experienced the correlation of what we learned from the lectures at the museum. The changes in moving image technology changed the way moving images are created, how they look and how we experience them with music, sound effects, visual effects and of course many more.
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