This was my second time at the MOMI and it was a whole different experience having a guide explaining things I would not have realized without her, and as a communications major student, knowing a little bit about the industry and its history than before.
The first subject we talked about was the evolvement of the moving image and how it was presented to people. Besides learning about it in class, a way to demonstrate the illusion of the zoetrope was presented at the museum by an amazing exhibition article called the Feral Fount Visual that really showed how our eyes and brain being tricked to complete an image with just a simple break (flickering lights), speed, and the series of the images.
Then we learned about the importance of sound in a film, in which we experienced by recording our voice overs in a recording studio. We were saying just two sentences from The Wizard of Oz in our own voices and connotation, and immediately the character and its mood have changed from what it seemed to be in the image. After that we picked our own choices of soundtrack and foley for a famous scene, and I realized even more how sound, score, and background sound affect the mode and ambiance of a scene and a film.
I will definitely be more aware to the score and sounds I hear when I watch films and TV shows from now on, and will try to consciously hear it and not only watch it.
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