museum of moving image

This is my second time to go to the Museum of Moving Image. I went there last Friday. It was totally different feelings when I went there second time. The museum is about the history, art, and technique of moving image, which includes film, television, radio, and digital media. I found many interesting things in this museum, such as production design, makeup and hair, special effects, animation, costume design, and recording sound. One of the interesting demos is light.

         Lighting is one of the most expressive elements of cinematic technique. It is important and essential. Light has very big visual affect and can create a very wide range of film (or television)’s styles. No matter we make a film or record a TV show, we need light. No matter you want a shadow environment or bright environment; light can create it, directly and accurately. The light separates for two parts, natural light and artificial light. Natural light is like sunshine. Artificial light is used different tools to make different visual effects. The museum introduced the history of light and showed various light machines. Some of them were very big, and some of them were small. It also showed some machines used to measure the light. These machines represented an era. They were not only the light machines, also the history of development of moving image.

        Another very interesting aspect of moving image is selling product. The selling product started very early age (like 1915 or 1916) and I never knew this before. I also found their products include many aspects, such as books, dolls, cups, and models. They were reminded me about my childhood. So I was very exciting when I saw that products.

        I think there was a very big change of moving image during these years. It changed still to moving images, and now we even have 3D. This development is very fast and successful. After I visited the museum this time, I felt like I experience a travel of moving image from one hundred years ago until now. I also found out more detailed things this time. This is amazing.

SUROGAT - Dusan Vukotic

I think this is a very interesting and distinctive animation work. The color of this animation is bright and vivid. It used very basic colors to create a colorful world. The tempo and rhythm of the background music always followed the content of the story. It made the story more vivid and lively. The characters and other elements in this animation only used very simple lines. This animation narrates a very interesting and imaginative story. Everything in this animation is fictitious. The main character blew everything that he wants. However, in the end of the story, I found out this character is also created by blow. Even though there is no conversation in this story, I still can know the story line of this animation very well. I think this animation represents people’s desires for the life. The idea and the theme are always the important things in the animation. 

Mark Fiore

I think this animation is a simple but very interesting work. It used bright and clear color. It’s very easy to remember the character’s traits. This animation only used simple lines to narrate the story. The uses of color and the lines definite the style of this animation works. The voice over controlled the whole story line. It gave the basic and clear idea of this story. This animation also used some sound affects. The sound affects helped to create a more full and interesting environment of the story. I think this animation is a totally new style than the other animations I saw before. It used simple animation works to create an impressive story. The good idea of the story is more important than the animation technologies.