Trekking it up to Astoria from our familiar Hunter College, we as a class visited the Museum of Moving Image. While there were many demos and interactive media to experiment with, the stations associated with sound were the most interesting to myself and my partner.
First, we experimented with the station concerned with "Automated Dialogue Replacement," where dialogue is recorded later on in a studio when the filming has finished. This is done when the original dialogue recorded may have experienced technical problems or had been subjected unwanted noise. We watched a scene from the 1988 film, "Coming to America," one of the best comedies in cinema history. In our sound proofed room, we were given the opportunity to replace Eddie Murphy's lines in the clip with our own vocal rendition as an example of this post-production process. Needless to say, we did not do the movie any justice.
As a second exercise, my partner and I interacted with the "Sound Effects" station within the MOMI. Sound effects are added during post-production and are often manipulated to produce a desirable effect. We watched the infamous scene of "Jurassic Park" (1993) in which the two children are hiding in the kitchen from the terrifying velociraptors. Key sound effects were cut out of the film clip and we were given four options of sound to finalize the clip with. The clip was re-rendered with our chosen sound bites to prove the importance of sound effects and timing within a movie. Of course, we re-rendered the scene with one of velociraptor's meowing instead of roaring, and ultimately believe this to be a better fit for the movie, or at least a remake.
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