Special Project: MOMI activity

The narrative I understood from the Museum Of Moving Image was that it followed how film and entertainment progressed over time. It started off with merchandise and how it affected entertainment. Personally, if I ran the museum, I would have made this the last thing on the tour since that would be the last thing that someone would worry about in the entertainment business. The next thing we saw was the headshots. This is vital to film and television because without entertainers, we wouldn’t have anyone to entertain with.

After that, we saw the makeup and the wardrobes from film and television of the past. This is also vital to telling the story of how entertainment outlets get their character and help flesh out the characters. Next came the cameras. Obviously, the most important because without cameras, there would be nothing to capture what the directors intended. I enjoyed watching the cameras evolve over time from a technological standpoint. Seeing cameras go from a little wood box to a steel thousand dollar contraption was actually really breathtaking in a way. Because, not only did it show a change in entertainment and film, but humans in general and how far we’ve gone. I think we can actually take the exhibit on the cameras as a little metaphor for human beings.

The last few things we’ve seen were the sound technology and how it’s used in modern films. This makes sense to put at the end of the tour because editing is the last thing to happen when a film or television show is done filming. This was also very interesting because I got to see firsthand how much work is actually done in order to create sound effects and how they are added to the film by using high end editing software. The final thing we saw were the televisions and the movie screens. This was a perfect ending because this is the final step in entertainment! The way we project what we want the audience to see. This was also very much like the cameras exhibit. We went from small screens to these gigantic flat screens in a matter of a few decades, I think it’s a beautiful thing.