MOMI Trip Experience


The trip to the Museum of Moving Image was an amazing and unforgettable experience for me. One of the demonstrations I participated was the audio dubbing, where actors would go in and voice over their own lines that came out too low or muffled.  The movie clip my group chose was from Coming to America with lines from Eddie Murphy. Hearing about audio dubbing, one might consider it easy, but actually experiencing it, I realized how hard it could be to match the exact speed, flow and tone of the audio especially when it’s in the middle of a conversation between two actors in the film. I got to experience how significant audio dubbing is to the post production of films. Something else interesting that I learned in the beginning of the tour was how back then in the 60s and even now, different cameras were used to film tv shows than the ones used to film movies. I would have never made the connection because I thought they were all one in the same. When in all actuality, the cameras used for TV shows are different because they have special components on them used to send signals to the broadcast stations. The changes in moving image technology have made moving images easier but also more tricky to understand. Some technologies have made moving images really hard to grasp the process of, but that is what keeps the progress of moving images so interesting. The Museum of Moving Image really gives an in depth look at the history of moving images and all of its glory.

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