Virtual Museum Experience

I think the Behind the Screen exhibit looked the most interesting. I'm a huge movie fanatic and love anything having to do with Hollywood and drama. I would have loved to see the large collection of television and movie artifacts that they have on display. I really would enjoy seeing the demonstrations of filmmaking techniques that are offered there as well. Tut's Fever Movie Palace where they screen short films looks like an exciting exhibit, also. The current film they are showing is The Red Balloon, which was one of my favorite films growing up!


Stefany Townsend

recording Marshall Mcluhan

http://www.ubu.com/sound/mcluhan.html

For me I think my two favorite exhibits are Behind the Screen, and the Tim Burton drawings. The Behind the Screen exhibition just on the website had a ton of information about movies, how they're made and a lot of the history behind it. Its a ton of information on the website, I'm sure the exhibit was just as interesting. The Tim Burton drawings, I've always been a fan of Tim Burton films, so for me it would be awesome to see some of his drawings and how his characters are developed.

~Justin

SOUND/IMAGE EXCERCISE

Use Audacity to build a sound track for an imaginary scene. Draw or make a photo to accompany the sound track. Post to IMAGE/SOUND BLOG. PLACE BOTH THE IMAGE AND THE SOUND INTO ONE POST. The sound track should be 5-20 seconds in duration. Your sounds should be recorded with your built in mics.

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Comment to THIS POST in paragraph form describing your virtual experience at the Museum of the Moving Image.

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TRANSFORMATION EXCERCISE

Make an animation using Photoshop that is based on the ideas of transformation and transition. Look up these words and think about their meanings in visual terms.
This animation should be 5-20 seconds long, rendered as a Quicktime movie and posted to the BLOG entitled TRANSFORMATION.

Examples:
Use shape to make something skinny fat
Use scale to make something big small
Use value and form to make a building melt
Use texture to make something dry wet
Use color to make something hot cold


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M. McLuhan

Media Theorist, Marshall McLuhan produced writings that propelled the study of popular, print, oral, and visual culture. The starting point of many of McLuhan's studies was the individual, as he defined media as "technological extensions of the body."
In his writing The Medium is the Massage McLuhan places emphasis on the media or medium themselves and not the content for which they become a vehicle. In this age of internet and information overload, I find McLuhan to be very prophetic in his theories. He's suggested that a medium affects the society in which it plays a role, not only by the content delivered over the medium, but by the characteristics of the medium itself.