"trip Visit"

Christopher Galarza
N00395152
Core 2: Time based media
Spring 2007


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“The Museum of the Moving Image

The museum of the moving image is a quick and intellectual insight on not only the movie industry but the TV industry as well. An in lighting visit into the times where TV was considered almost insulting to the house hold and into the innovation of the modern film industry is the experience you will encounter on a vist. On your fist steps within the museum you are confronted with images of films from modern times to classics from back in the day. The museum it self is comprised of cameras video and even sound equipment to the first ones created to the most modern equipment in the industry.
Analog and digital formats. These are the two types of film and TV creation in this age. Analog being that of he old days where all film was on physical film not transferred to the digital formats that we use in this day and age, So gives the answer that digital format are the pictures we take on or phones to what we create when we film using modern day camcorders. Upon age the analog format became inferior and expensive. Soon enough we will not see the analog formats being use; digital is the new age of development and editing.
In the museum I took pat in many of the exercises but the one that struck me the most was the sound editing that went into the development in such films as the titanic. One can only imagine the creative thinking that went in to the decision process of selecting the correct sounds that make up the film. It was amazing for me to see how sounds such as an elephant blowing its trunk, to monkey sounds are used in the film without the presents of these animals at all on the set. The sound development can become one to be fascinated by but also one that can inspire. In my own work I see the unconventional can sometimes mean the best thing for your film; the editing of sound in titanic has inspired me to experiment with more sounds for my films even in my midterm project.
Along the visit of the museum you learn a lot and begin to appreciate the art and intelligence that goes into the development of media. We watch TV and movies and just don’t realize the amount of effort that went into the project. The museum is a visit that I think for any artist from paper to film should visit.