Project 3

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Museum of the Moving Image trip

On my trip to the Museum of the Moving Image, one of the aspects of media production that caught my eye was the sound editing portion. In particular, the group looked at ADR and inserting music into a particular scene. The ADR portion had the group in a soundproof room with different movie scenes playing. We had a choice of which movie we'd replace the dialogue from. Three of us (including myself) replaced dialogue from the movie Babe with great success. To be honest, we didn't really learn anything different from what we learned during lecture. Another aspect that was looked at was putting music in scenes in general. Overall, the right music can set the mood and atmosphere for any scene. The group listened to a different music and tried to match it up to a scene from the movie Independence Day. After we listened to one sound clip, we determined if it worked with the scene or not. The scene was supposed to be very dramatic, revealing the alien spacecraft eclipsing most of the sky as the people looked in awe. Therefore, adding romantic music to the scene would not work, as it doesn't match up with the suspense of the scene. The tour guide wasn't very good at what she did. She seemed to know basic facts about certain items, but she didn't really expand on it. At one point both professors showed up and kind of helped her along. While I enjoyed my experience at the museum, I only wish that we had a tour guide that was more informative.