Museum of Moving Image

This was my first time in the Museum of Moving Image and it was an unusual experience in a good way. For one, this museum is not about paintings or sculptures but it shows the machines and equipments used for filming and making media in general. The second is that we can actually interact with some of the equipments like making still image into moving image or picking different music for different films.

Beginning of the tour, we were introduced to different period of video cameras from the very first to modern day cameras. We also saw different filmstrips for different types of films like 24 fps or IMAX filmstrips. There were different lights and Professor Lucas explained which light was used for. We went into a room where we can choose different music for a chosen film. The film was black and white and there was no spoken word or any sound. Our goal was to pick different songs to see which match the movie. By doing so, I learned that different music could change the meaning of the scene completely and that without music, a movie can be very bland.