Blog #4: MOMI Visit
At the Museum of the Moving Image, I was able to visit the Jim Henson Gallery and learn about the use and history of puppetry in media. I played with the puppet demo and found that it was much harder than I could have imagined to control the puppet and move it on beat with the music and words. In addition to exploring the Jim Henson Gallery, I participated in the stop animation demonstration. It was pretty cool to do but difficult to do smoothly and I could tell that it would take quite a bit of time to perfect the timing of the animation. It's hard to believe that there was a time where stop animation was the standard. One of my favorite takeaways from the visit was seeing the head sculptures from Starman and learning that each sculpture only occupied a single frame of film to get a "fluid, five-second transformation" in the movie. It brought into perspective how crucial editing is and how film technology has affected media. Changes in technology have changed the way mov...
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