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During my trip to the MoMI, I witnessed a demonstration of voice overs and dubbing. My tour guide brought us into a sound studio and taught us how the dubbing process worked. He made four students in our group record themselves speaking some lines from a Marilyn Monroe film. We saw how the tone of the voice can change the mood of the film. Another thing that can change the mood of the film is the sound effects. My tour guide also allowed us to choose the sound effects for a car chase scene in one of the Terminator movies. The students voted on sillier sound effects, which made the film seem like a comedy. Another thing I found interesting was practical effects used in films vs CGI and digitally produced effects. Films like The Nightmare on Elm Street used props, makeup, and close up camera angles to make the film come to life. In one scene of The Nightmare on Elm Street , my tour guide told us that the production team used a giant sweater to film a scene. With the use of cinemati...

In the film "Old Boy" at about 13:33, a scene begins with a close up of the protagonist's hand. He is tattoing a tally mark into his skin. There is a cut to the corner of his bed where he puts the needle back. Another cut to him digging into a wall with a metal chopstick. This is a series of cuts is related to his daily routine and shows the viewers how his life is with the juxtaposition of the images. The next few cuts are an example of the Kuleshov effect. There is a close up shot of his hand with some tally marks tattooed onto it, then there is a cut to a close up shot of him digging into a wall, another cut to his hand with more tally marks, and then a cut to the hole in the wall that is now evidently much deeper. Having the images put together, the viewer can assume that over the years that the hole in the wall gets deeper. In this last portion of the scene, there is a cut to a wide shot the other side of the hole. The protagonist's head emerges from the hole thi...

This is an interview I did with my classmate Elba. I interviewed her about her fear of rats, and we dug into the root of her fear back to her childhood.