Museum of Moving Image

During my trip to the Museum of Moving Images my group experienced many interesting demos. Our tour guide took us to a recording studio which we participated in voice acting. We watch a clip from the movie of School of Rock, where the teacher makes the class pledge to his rules.  Then we watch the same clip but this time we read the lines and voice act in it. After hearing our results we realize that voice acting is something difficult to do.  The next demo, our tour guide took us to a room where she did a presentation on sound effects. She made us close our eyes to hear sounds that are being played one by one and guess what the sound was, which was the movie Titanic. We realize certain sounds being made are something we didn't expect. For example, when the pillar in the ship was falling they used an elephant sound or when the strings were breaking it has sounds of bullets being shot. This taught us that sounds can stimulate certain emotion from us and that without sound the movie can be pretty funny despite it’s a dramatic scene. I never realize that these sounds being made in movie is something that can be made from everyday objects and that the people making these sounds are creative in the work they do. Our tour guide pound how sound, animation, basically media in general is being made by these three elements; speed, sequence of images, and moment of rest.