Final Project

Brandon Lee and Tiara Patterson's Final Project link:

https://vimeo.com/149716820

Museum of Moving Image Reflection

The core of the Museum of Moving Image is the Behind the Screen exhibition.  It occupies the second and third floor and shows visitors the creative and technical processes of producing, promoting, and presenting films, television shows, and digital entertainment.  On our tour, we saw multiple parts of the exhibit.  I wish we walked through the whole exhibit as a class, but time was a factor.  We recorded our movements as a sequence of still photographs, essentially making a gif or flipbook.  We recorded our voices over dialogue from certain films.  We added different pieces of music to scenes from movies to experience how music affects mood and tone.  Overall, it was a fun trip that I would definitely take again.

My favorite part of the trip was recording our voices to dub over scenes in the ADR (Audio Dialogue Replacement) room.  We, as in about twenty people, crammed into a soundproof room with a shotgun microphone coming down from the ceiling and a huge screen situated in the front of the room.  Our tour guide started the demonstration by asking for volunteers to sit in front of a computer and put on headphones.  These volunteers were going to use their voices for the lines.  We recorded over actors like Eddie Murphy and Jack Black.  It was funny to see the end product, but I did learn that ADR is a very difficult part of post-production.  It was hard to match the lines with your character’s lips on the screen and have the right intonation in your voice. 

The ADR part of the exhibit made me think about how important it is to film today.  Sound is not easily edited, and if it does not come out right during filming, that’s a problem.  Instead of going back to shoot, which at times and depending on the circumstances is impossible, actors can just go into the ADR room and say their lines there.  This is a huge advancement in filmmaking.  The possibilities and applications are endless.