Museum of the Moving Image

      During the class trip to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, my group participated in an activity in which we choose the music to accompany a scene from the film Casino. From doing this experiment, I learned that the specific music you put to accompany a scene can greatly affect the mood.  The scene was Robert De Niro gazing at Sharon Stone in the casino.  When we used slow tempo music the scene looked like a love scene. When we used dramatizing music, the scene looked like a revenge scene. We also got the chance to use country music, which made no sense at all with the scene. From doing this experiment I can say that the accompanying music to a scene, can make or break a scene.

         On the computers that are stationed near the flipbook maker experiment, I got to create my own animation by simply moving an object various times. The object given was a bush and the background was what looked like a field. On the computer you would move the bush and take a picture every time you moved it. In the end when the moving images were played back together in sync it looked like an animation with the bush moving through the field.  I never fully understood animation, but from this experiment I got insight into what is done behind the scenes in creating an animation.

   Overall this trip gave me more insight on the ways in which moving image technology has changed the way moving images are created, how they look, and how we experience them.