It's 12pm in the afternoon, and I am on my way through Times Square. There are multiple languages in the air. A typical landmark of New York City, especially Times Square. The mixture of multiple languages spoken at such a high volume that it sounds like gibberish. That's the beauty of Times Square though. The sound of diversity made me smile, but I also groaned to myself at the feeling of claustrophobia emanating within me. Two Spanish women passed me by, then a man with a thick Chinese accent. The man with the Chinese accent was yelling on the phone as he dragged a large, dirty backpack of goods across the pavement. The bag scraped against the street, making a loud brushing noise as it slid past me. The brushing noise of the bag wasn't as loud as it could be, because it was masked by the whistles and screams of the policemen. Construction tools clanked against the ground as workers were busy fixing the roads. There seems to always be some sort of construction going on. Si...
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...
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