I've enjoyed going to museums ever since I first visited the museum of Natural History with my 1st grade class, however with balancing school and all that comes with being a college kid, this pastime got pass downed on the priority list. However there's something about having to do something you like as an assignment that takes the enjoyment out and converts it into a task, so naturally I got mixed feelings about the trip. (The last time I was on a school trip I was in high school)
A huge part of whether you enjoy something or not definitely has to do with who you're doing it with, so this is where my group's your guide played a huge role. (I wish I remembered her name, but she had fun reddish hair and wore graffiti spray painted skirt) Not only did she show us though the built in Egyptian theatre to Freddy's oversized sweater, but every step was relevant to the pop culture that we grew up to (Mrs. Doubtfire's apparel is so distinctive)
My favorite part would have to be the voice over room located between the video camera display and the titanic sound manipulator. It was a small padded sound proof room where we got to chose a scene from the likes of wizard of oz to titanic to Eddie Murphy's coming to America--and of course the group agreed on Eddie. As an audience we were able to get involved and use our voices over the images that actually appeared in the movie.
Before this exercise, I understood that for certain scenes where the actor couldn't be mic-ed, for example in the water, that there would be a need for VoiceOver. However, for the particular scenes that were available, the actors weren't in circumstances where they couldn't have recorded and shot the scene in one take. Our tour guide explained to us that sometimes certain scenes need to be re-recorded for the dialogue only and the visuals were good, so after wrap actors had to come into the studio and get back in the mindset of the particular scenes and then record the dialogue to match the movement of the mouth on screen. It's way easier said than done, because you have to remember the specific way things were said in the shot in order to preserve the authenticity of the video.
We later moved on to look at the titanic exhibit which basically stripped the audio of the scene where the ship is sinking and Jack and Rose are running on the deck. As a 'regular' audience member, you don't really realize the intricacy that goes into each scene of a film. There's the dialogue, the sound effects of the background, folio added sound effects, etc. So we muted each audio segment and watched the scene with just one, for example just the dialogue, and it's shocking how most of us laughed at what would have been the movie without the additional post production work. And as a viewer, you naively think that this is all collectively the scene, when in reality, the scene is really created and further developed in post production. That definitely changes my perception of how marvelous or sophisticated an actor really is and how essentially they truly are when some aspects can be manipulated later. It's not to discredit actors on their job, just that in this particular scene there wasn't anything outstanding about their roles but rather this intense and heavily important role truly came to life through post production.
A huge part of whether you enjoy something or not definitely has to do with who you're doing it with, so this is where my group's your guide played a huge role. (I wish I remembered her name, but she had fun reddish hair and wore graffiti spray painted skirt) Not only did she show us though the built in Egyptian theatre to Freddy's oversized sweater, but every step was relevant to the pop culture that we grew up to (Mrs. Doubtfire's apparel is so distinctive)
My favorite part would have to be the voice over room located between the video camera display and the titanic sound manipulator. It was a small padded sound proof room where we got to chose a scene from the likes of wizard of oz to titanic to Eddie Murphy's coming to America--and of course the group agreed on Eddie. As an audience we were able to get involved and use our voices over the images that actually appeared in the movie.
Before this exercise, I understood that for certain scenes where the actor couldn't be mic-ed, for example in the water, that there would be a need for VoiceOver. However, for the particular scenes that were available, the actors weren't in circumstances where they couldn't have recorded and shot the scene in one take. Our tour guide explained to us that sometimes certain scenes need to be re-recorded for the dialogue only and the visuals were good, so after wrap actors had to come into the studio and get back in the mindset of the particular scenes and then record the dialogue to match the movement of the mouth on screen. It's way easier said than done, because you have to remember the specific way things were said in the shot in order to preserve the authenticity of the video.
We later moved on to look at the titanic exhibit which basically stripped the audio of the scene where the ship is sinking and Jack and Rose are running on the deck. As a 'regular' audience member, you don't really realize the intricacy that goes into each scene of a film. There's the dialogue, the sound effects of the background, folio added sound effects, etc. So we muted each audio segment and watched the scene with just one, for example just the dialogue, and it's shocking how most of us laughed at what would have been the movie without the additional post production work. And as a viewer, you naively think that this is all collectively the scene, when in reality, the scene is really created and further developed in post production. That definitely changes my perception of how marvelous or sophisticated an actor really is and how essentially they truly are when some aspects can be manipulated later. It's not to discredit actors on their job, just that in this particular scene there wasn't anything outstanding about their roles but rather this intense and heavily important role truly came to life through post production.
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