Duncan Glaser
Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image's core
exhibition “Behind the Screen” was a very intersting collection
pertaining to many facets of films production history and methods.
One very interesting part of the exhibition was the collection of
film cameras, lighting and sound recording equipment. It showed very
clearly the progression of the technology used to produce films and
how that progression increased the quality in the productions.
Another great part of the exhibition
was interactive computers set up allowing users to experience part
of the films audio production process. One computer let you choose a
film clip and then fill in the sound effects and watch the finished
product. For a scene where a truck crashes in Terminator I replaced
the crash sound with chicken noises which was rather amusing to
watch. Another computer let you add in different sound tracks to
films and see how they gave the scene different tones. It was fun to
be able to play around with the audio production but it was very
simplified and didnt entirely reflect how the actual process is
achieved.
The exhibition also featured a
egyptian mummy themed movie theater in which an old explorer
adventure tv show was played. This display showed how many gimmicks
used to be implemented to enhance the movie experience. Nowadays
theaters are much less extravagant and rely more on the technology to
sell product. Even so we still have brought back some old gimmicks
like 3d films, lets just hope they dont try to bring back
Smell-o-Vision.
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