Final Project

The Forgotten from Shannon Cavanagh on Vimeo.

Our class trip was not my first trip to the museum of moving images, however whenever you go its always enjoyable.  My tour guide was very good about getting us through a lot of the interactive activities.  He was even good about making none interactive activities have something to do in them.  In the costume display, he had us create back stories for characters based off their costumes, something I enjoyed.  Within the museum, I enjoyed most of the exhibits.  I like the fact that they give merchandizing its own exhibit, something that can be such a huge part of a films cultural influence but not always part of the initial process (unless the movie is based off the items or games already available).  My favorite activities were the ones that have to do with sound, particularly the Foley and soundtrack activities.  I thought it was amazing that as a large group, we all came to a very quick decision over what score is the best.  To me, it shows that the score is something that that truly resonates with people, and we would probably choose similar ones in our own lives.  I also really enjoyed the Foley activity where we put the sound effects into the movie home alone, and slightly different sound all fit with the visuals, but make a huge difference for the comedic impact.  The differences in sounds were actually quite subtle, but in the end the choices were so obvious that it would have changed the quality of a scene if another is used.  Over all a very enjoyable trip and I can't wait to go again.