MOMI visit

When I visited the Museum of the Moving Image, I felt a wave of nostalgia, I got to check out my old favorite exhibits I had enjoyed as a kid. I was amazed that though so much had changed since my childhood there was still so much that had stayed the same. After admiring the new entrance and facade of the building I went inside was greeted with a display of old black and white photos of famous movie stars and then I sought out my old favorite exhibits. I was delighted to see that the exhibits like the Freddy's sweater from Nightmare on Elm Street and the makeup from the Elephant Man that had shocked and scared me as a kid were still there, though they didn't seem half as threatening as they did when I was 10. I also was excited to see the old sci-fi exhibits with the original Yoda puppet from Star Wars and the makeup of Chewbacca as well as the practical effects from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey with the monkey limbs. I also spent some time at one of my personal favorite interactive parts of the museum, the exhibit of Georges Milies' 'A Trip to the Moon', I always enjoyed the frame by frame viewer that you could use by turning the hand crank and changing the picture rapidly to create a moving image. I found the fast moving still frames were a fascinating lesson in the relationship between static and dynamic movement in film and media.

Audio Project;

Sound and Image relationship

In this scene from the horror film, Cabin in the Woods, there is an interesting use of editing and self-awareness to it, just like there is in the rest of the film. The scene, which depicts an underground facility being overrun by every horror film creature imaginable, relies on the use of fast cutting and jarring sounds. The use of mundane sounds of an elevator opening are also used to chilling effect, the soft ding of the elevator is offset by the graphic violent images that accompany it. The first monsters enter and attack in a long shot complete with the sounds of screams and the high-pitched whirring sound from one of the robot monsters. The camera remains stationary and even has one of the victims thrown directly at it, giving the scene a gory red blackout and breaking the fourth wall of the film. T Subsequently, there are then quick cuts between various rooms of the facility, all being displayed on security camera-style footage, complete with the small mechanical beeps and static that occur each time the shot cut to something else, the camera then pulls back to reveal these scenes are all occurring simultaneously on various video monitors. I find the editing gives the film a tone reflective of the chaotic unraveling natures of the scenes and the stationary nature of the security cameras add a sense of realism to the horror. There is even an overt editing reference, in one of the security camera shots, the "doctors" are preparing to make an incision on a helpless victim, who yells, "Don't cut!" The camera does not listen to him and cuts to the next shot anyway in an editing style that is both darkly humorous and self aware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1SV0LInE-s

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