Project 4 Final

Blog #4 MOMI

My group in the MOMI museum visited the camera, editing, props, and script sections. We started off with the film cameras from different eras beginning with the early 1900’s. The first was a camera in a wooden box. I have never seen this camera before and I learned that it was made of a certain material of film that heated up very fast so films would usually be very short. After that we moved on to the camera with the crank and how that began to take normal film. As the years passed each camera progressed in size and efficiency and eventually color, which we saw a red strip of film. The tour guide showed us examples of how colored films looks around that time and it only picked up certain strong colors as opposed to other colors that looked more dull. We briefly passed by editing and saw various editing stations and learned that a lot of jobs in film were sort of sexist. Editing was mostly done by women. I also learned that in sports there is live editing being done with multiple cameras at every angle. Next was the script section where we saw the scripts of famous movies and shows. Here also learned that woman did a lot of script supervising. The script edits looked very complicated it was almost another language. We passed by props as well from “Exorcist” to “The Mask”. We were told that everything in the museum has been used in the actual movies and that was pretty amazing to me.