MoMI Trip

On our class trip to the Museum of the Moving Image my group got to look at a lot of interesting devices and tools used in the film industry both past and present. One interactive part of the trip that I got to participate in was doing voice over in the sound booth. I was one of the three students who volunteered to do the voice over. It was actually a lot harder than I thought it would be with trying to match my timing with the actor's lip movement on the screen. Another interesting demonstration was when the tour guide dissected all the parts on the computer that go into editing (video, voice over, and sound effects) for a final movie scene. She chose a scene from Titanic and showed us how comical the individual parts are and then how truly in synch they are when put into one final work. These two demonstrations showed me how many aspects go into the sound in films. I never knew that in some movies the dialogue was not in real time with the acting, but done in post production voice over. I've always assumed that when dialogue was messed up then the take had to be redone, but instead I learned that often times the scene is kept and the actors redo the dialogue only, in a sound booth, which is then later added as a track over the video. These two demonstrations showed me how much work is really put into post production and editing. The changes in moving image technology have allowed for a more efficient editing process and an overall better quality in the final product.