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