This week the Media 160 class took on the MoMI in Queens. We parted into groups and ventured off into the enormous world of moving image from its past, to how it has evolved over time, to how it is handled in the present day. What I found most fascinating during my visit to the MoMI was the filming of certain Sci-Fi movies, that giant spaceship you see is really just a toy prop. I don't know why it blew my mind so much, because in reality the idea that they went out to space to film an actual spaceship is so ridiculous. However, I guess I just never really thought about how they filmed scenes of this nature. The image pictured left is the actual prop from one of these movies and had hundreds of wires that controlled the lights and elevators within the prop to make it look as if it were real. It just blew my mind how an audiences perception can be so altered into thinking it is one thing. For example, we reviewed a scene from Titanic focusing more specifically on sound, foley sound, special effects etc. The movie was filmed in a giant swimming pool and all the sound effects were added to make it sound the way it did in the movie since electrical equipment like microphones couldn't be in water. It's amazing to think of how far movies and moving image has come and how people have harnessed ideas and techniques to bring it more and more to life. Now a days we have 4-d Movies in the works that makes you feel like you're in the movie, its insane.
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