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The Museum of Moving Images was such a great and eye opening experience. There were so many things that I didn’t know about the film and movie industry. I certainly didn’t realize how much work gets put into making a simple scene in a movie much less the actual full thing.  One of my favorite exhibits that we saw was actually an exhibit that we were allowed to participate in: the voice over room. Essentially, the tour guide explained to use about how when you film a movie sometimes they don’t do the audio until after filming. An example would be in animated movies. I always assumed that it was a simple process that was easily done but this exhibit proved me completely wrong. It is so hard to say the words at exactly the right time so that your voice is on time with the movement of the actors’ lips and actions. Three of my classmates participated in the voice over exhibit and they each took turns saying a line from this one scene and then at the end we played i...

Pride and Prejudice is probably one of my favorite movies so it was a no-brainer that I’d pick a scene from there to analyze. In the scene that I chose we see many different uses of camera angles and positions to give add to the piece. The scene starts off with a close up of one of the character’s leg, bouncing lazily to a song she is humming (diegetic sound). The shot then pans up (dolly shot/tracking shot) her body giving us an open frame before switching to a closed frame/wide shot, showing the rest of the family in the room. We then hear a sound from off the screen (non-diegetic) and the camera then changes to a medium shot of the new person who walked in, reaction shots of the other people in the room and then a medium close-up of the actress staring out the window. Then there is a tracking shot for the mom as she moves about the room, before showing reaction shots from the others as they rushed to clean. We then get a point of view sequence from the main character after s...

My job is approximately 1.5 miles away from my house. So that means I walk nearly 3 miles every day and until this assignment I never realized that I never paid attention to the sounds around me. I’ve always drowned out the world with my music in my ear when I walk because I thought it made it easier to concentrate. Yesterday I decided to take off the headphone and for once, just listen. It was loud and kind of jarring at first. I walk down a busy street in Astoria, one that is constantly filled with people and cars. The sounds of cars honking and loud music blasting from their stereos followed me all the way to work and on my way back home. On my way to work I passed by one middle school and one high school and a day care center so the sounds of children screaming, crying, laughing, cursing, chatting were almost constantly in my ear as I walked passed each block. I heard the sound of the public bus opening and closing it’s doors, the weird sound the bus seems to make every time it sto...

Final Project Tony & Annmarie from Tony Turner on Vimeo .

Growing up in a biracial home I’ve always felt a struggle with my identity. My father was born and raised in Dominican Republic and came to America when he was 18 years old. My mother was born in Italy and came to America when she was just a baby. But while they have both been in America for over 30 years, they still have very close ties with their culture. However, when they decided to have children they also decided that they’d bring us up in a more traditional American home. As I got older, I started to feel confused about who I was or where I belonged. I had pieces of my father’s culture, I had pieces of my mothers’ but not quite enough to actually fit in with the rest of the family or with other people from that country. I was too American, they said. But to Americans, I wasn’t American enough. When I was a child, I watched the movie “Selena” about the Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla who changed the Mexican and English music industry. In a part of the ...