Our field trip to the MOMI was the first time I had ever been there, or
had heard of the museum. Although I had a huge headache was battling through
the remainder of my stomach virus I was still able to enjoy myself. Through out
the tour of a several exhibits within the museum, there were a few that caught
my attention in particularly.
One display that caught my eyes, were the “Magic Lanterns.” They were
the predecessors of the moving image, and were away of storytelling before the
film was invented. They were similar to slide projectors. One person would
project the image against a surface, while another person would create a
narrative for the images. They fooled everyone. Some people thought they were
old school vintage cameras, wand others thought they were zoetropes. I myself
thought it was just an old school 19th century camera or something.
I had no clue what it the heck it was.
I also found out that the cinematographer was the one who works closest
with the director. Apparently they scout locations, approve costume design, pick
out equipment and more. I thought all that was done by the assistant director.
I didn’t know what a cinematographer was, or that they had so much “say” in the
development of the film. They can
even decide and ask with whom they wish to work with. (Talk about taking
control of a situation, that’s basically their entire job.)
Another aspect I learned about was ADR, or “Automated Dialogue
Replacement. It is similar to the process of dubbing, only difference is that
you keep the image and change the audio with the voices of the actors. In other
cases, directors will use ADR to ask actors to rerecord their audio, just in
case of audio discrepancies occurred during the original recording.
All in all the museum was pretty cool. I give in two thumbs up, and I definitely want to revisit it again, hopefully when I have some more free time.
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