Final Project

Interview with Stephanie by Jin S Kim

Stephanie talks about her family, and the relationship with her mom:)

Field trip to the MoMI

The Museum of the Moving Image has full of surprises of media productions. The museum manifests film production’s history, present, and future expectation. Moreover, the guided tour of MOMI exhibition helped me to develop a greater understanding of the collection of artifacts that relates to the art, history, and technology of the moving image. Through multifarious artifacts, the each exhibitions of the museum demonstrate various elements of producing, promoting, and exhibiting motion pictures which are living in our media world.  One great thing of the museum is that visitors can experience many exhibits by playing them. I was able to communicate with those artifacts simply by observing, touching, and playing.

Before I saw the sound editing process, I would never know that how many types of sound was designed and layered in each sequence of the movie. Among various demonstrations, ADR interactive room drew my attention. The booth introduces visitors to follow the same dubbing process like real movie actors would do during the post-production. It was really amusing experience, all I had to do was follow the instruction that appears on the computer screen, yet it wasn’t easy than I anticipated. First, I chose the footage that I wanted to overlay with my voice, and chose the character and then I read the script followed by the cue sign. Simultaneously, the computer recorded my voice and then played it with the footage. The footage was not in sync with my voice; it didn’t sync at all the first time I tried, then I got better at the end but still, it wasn’t an easy job at all!

My second participation was video flipbook; it was the most amusing interactive experience I’ve made in the museum. A flipbook sounds old-fashioned, but digitally created video flipbook is something new. The digital camera device recorded my movements and converted into a sequence of still photographs. Simultaneously, these several images projected onto a big screen, and then I was able to send these continual sets of photos to my email just by typing in my email address on the touch-screen device. There was no need to wait for developing and distribution (sharing) of images. I was so exhilarated and excited about creating my own flipbook. 

As we can see, the developed technology of moving image will bring enormous entertainment to our lives. After the trip to the MOMI, I realized the changes in the moving image, gradually have been built the world of modern moving image more and more advanced, elaborated, and highly sophisticated and with more and more simple procedures. Just think about the filmmakers a couple of decades ago, and then compare them with today’s media-makers. Anyone can be involved making movies today easily by using digital tools. The benefits of advanced moving image technology are making our lives more dynamic and colorful than ever before. And we will continue our efforts to keep enhancing the technology for our better future entertainment. 

Audio Project

Audio project: Interview Stephanie By Jin S Kim

What is “Sound walk”? The sound walk is a practice of focused listening in which one moves through an environment with complete attention to sound.

I.

While I was doing our audio interview, I realized that it is really challenge to find an absolutely quite place in Hunter building. Various sounds became the noise to me; the sound from people’s walking and chatting, elevators…etc. I barely pay attention to sounds when I walk. It is more like I am careless of the sounds from street, because I personally love listening to music while walking. I think I've never listened carefully the sounds from streets as I walk along. It’s more like the background sounds to me, unless the random sirens penetrate my headphone and into my ears; that is more like noise. I feel annoyed by those sounds such as the cars driving by, also screeching from brakes, and sometimes car honks, ambulance sirens. Since, I’m addicted to plugging my ears to music that I love to listen to. I guess I try to isolate myself from all the sounds thus I would cut off myself from the outside world for little moment.

II.

It was an ordinary day of school, and the weather was nice and warm. I decided to take a walk, and this time I took off my headphone from my ears. I was walking down to school from 3rd Avenue and 81st street to Lexington Avenue and 68th Avenue- It was the same route that I used to walk to school every day when I lived in Upper East Side. Now I am sharing the experience of the sound marks in the Upper East Side.

As soon as I started walking, I heard a random sound that came out from a baby’s mouth; not a cooing but sort of mumbling that I couldn't understand, but the mom of the baby was response to her with a gentle voice tone. Then I walked from narrow ally towards to a wide Avenue. The first thing caught my attention was that all the sounds from cars on the street mostly dominant over all the sounds that I could hear. I heard the sound of engine brakes from trucks and cars as they stopped for loading or at the traffic lights. Also the buses made the squeaking sound as they stopped to take on passengers, and made the tires screeching sound when they pulled out the bus stop. The sounds from cars are “Keynotes” during all over the sound walk.  As I walked along with the Avenue, I heard not only cars honking but also random conversations. People were talking, laughing, and some of them were chattering on their phones when they walked past me.

Subsequently, I heard the jingle-jangle sound of bells and food steps of something in distance, so I gazed front and I saw a women who waking towards me with her leashed dogs. They stopped to urinate and started walking away in a fast pace footsteps. Soon after that, I heard the sounds of whirling wheels, but I didn't know what it was, so I look in the direction of the sound; there were two people in their skates and a bike flashed by me. When I was waiting to across the street, there is a car stopped right in front of me to wait for the signal to change, were blasting a loud music. I couldn't recognize what the song was that were playing in a car. As the sound grew fainter and fainter in the distance, I heard a sound made by a woman who is pushing her stroller, and walking towards me.

All the way to school, I could hear the flip-flops walk along with dragging feet, and there were tip-tap sounds of shoes on the pavement. Continuously, I heard the crinkling sounds of shopping bags and plastic bags by people as they passed by me. Once in a while, I heard an ambulance siren in the distance. When I walked close to school I heard the pigeons were flapping their wings and chirping. As I walked into school building the sounds from cars became less noisy. I started to hear students’ shouting and chatting. I heard them laughing. Then, I finished my sound walk journey.

III.

Since the sound walk, I think I would have been keen of hearing. Moreover, I've learned that just ambiance itself has enormous natural sound sources, and I would be more sensitive to my surrounding environments than before I experienced the sound walk.

Artist Statement

 Staff members in NYTV8: New York Talent Contest 2011, Flushing, Queens 2011. 

Photograph by NYTV8

Artist Statement

I grew up in South Korea, and spent most of my life in a small town of my country. To be honest, until I started traveling around world, I have never thought about any social or political issues that lying behind ongoing world hegemony and domination by a few powers in this world. However, my traveling experiences widened, and deepened my perspective of understanding the world.

Similarly, Ki-moon Ban who is the U.N secretary general gave me tremendous motivation to study world politics. He helped me to build my perception of the international organizations, also motivated me to be concerned to the long lasting sociocultural and political influences or outcomes from the U.N or N.G.Os to the world during last decades. Naturally, the effects of international organizations, and the dominant powers and its impacts to all around world in globalization era are the most concerned, and interested subjects to me.

 I still remember that I dreamed of becoming a famous news reporter when I was young; I was so fascinated by reporters because I believed the true nature of media is to advocate the people who are being treated unfairly in society. Thus, I always have such an admiration toward journalism. Especially to live in “new media” era, in other words, the era of explosion in citizen journalism, anyone can vocalize their opinions on the internet.  I am well aware of the power of individual (armature) act of journalism, and believe the power of crowd sourcing. Lately, the person who has given me huge inspiration is Julian Paul Assange; he is an activist, publisher and journalist, and most importantly, he is known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks.

Staff members in NYTV8: New York Talent Contest 2011, Flushing, Queens 2011. 

Photograph by NYTV8

When I was engaging various media activities during summer of 2011, I have realized that without collaborate with others on a project, it is impossible to achieve any goals.  Even if it was a small project, there were tons of people working together, putting lots of efforts for a goal. Being exposed by such a passionate, enthusiastic work environment it has inspired me as a media creator/maker in future.

Ultimately, I intend my work to observe and investigate the role of the international organizations in our society and its new phase that related to the world politics and the media. I will approach my blog as my own creative outlet that to establish factual story in public spaces. I will also find the way to communicate and work together with diverse groups of people through online and offline thus my project will have been grounded in accuracy and objectivity. 

Hi, My name is Jin. I am living in Dumbo, Brooklyn. I'm majoring in media, concentrating journalism.
Hope I understand more about filming and how to conduct interviews through out this class.