MoMI Trip

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 cinematic makeup and a close up camera angle, they fit multiple actors into the shirt to make it appear as if the souls were leaving Freddy Krueger's body. Some films made miniature statues of buildings for the film, then used close up camera angles to make it appear lifelike. The process of doing this is way cheaper than if they were to make an actual structure for the film. Making an entire building for the film would be time consuming, expensive, and unrealistic. With the use of CGI effects today, that would make it seem even more realistic. Some films combine CGI and practical effects nowadays to bring the film to life and make it seem realistic.