I really enjoyed our trip to the museum of the modern image. The highlight for me was one of the first things we saw, the room that demonstrated how we perceive motion using a strobe light flashing on many different sculptures. The result was what looked like stop motion occurring right in front of you and that may have been one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
I participated in the flip book demonstration with two of my friends. We were told to move around in front of a white screen while a camera took a bunch of photos of us. We were later given a printout of those photos to make into a flip book. This demonstrates the illusion of motion when viewing a series of single images in rapid succession. Modern film still uses this same essential concept.
Seeing all of the different cameras lined up chronologically was great. Our guide explained to us how Technicolor worked which is by splitting the image with a prism and then exposing three different lines of film simultaneously, then dying those film strips.
There was an area showing how sound effects were implemented and I was laughing at the fact that the movie Titanic actually used an elephant for a falling smoke stack, something I probably never would have picked up on, which is why it’s so impressive.
All in all a great trip, I have since made plans with other friends to go back and take more time.
