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 moving images are created, how they look and how we experience them when looking at the ways in which television and movie cameras have changed over the years. As the cameras became more advanced so did the quality in picture. The same can be said about microphones and television sets. There seemed to be a trend from devices becoming smaller and smaller as they became more advanced with updated technology. Also, the introduction of computers affected graphics and special effects in film and changed the way we view movies today.


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