MOMI

The demo in front of the computer screen was a short introduction to the concept of creating sound in a movie. The goal of the demo was to demonstrate how foley and other audio created outside the shooting location of a film can be added in post production to build a more realistic environment. In the demo, a scene of Titanic was stripped of all its audio and played. After the first viewing, one audio track was inserted. After that viewing another one was added and so on. By seeing the progression of the audio tracks come into the scene we saw the scene become more lifelike. During the demo we learned that some of the foley audio wasn’t even a recording of what the audio was supposed to match on the screen. For example, a recording of an elephant was used as audio for parts of the Titanic ship falling apart. During the tour, we saw a progression of how cinema was consumed and changed historically. The first being by watching a silent movie at a theater with an on location pianist to create the score as the film was rolling. After the silent era came watching films that included dialogue and other audio. There was a bulky technicolor camera on a tripod in the museum. It was well known that movies could be filmed in color during the 1950’s but it’s impracticality of three film rolls and cost made it expensive to shoot in color.