Museum of Moving Images

The Museum of Moving Images is a very fun place to go. I was surprised at all the media technology that was at the museum. Not only was there wonderful showcases on display, the museum also had a lot of hands on activities. Technology improved greatly over the last century both on photography and moving images due to the advances by scientists and inventors in Europe and the United States. 

From still to moving images:

Many developments led to the birth of the movies: the theory of visual persistence- the idea that the retina can retain an image for a fraction of a second after the image is removed from the field of vision- proposed by Peter Mark Roget in England in 1824; the invention of photography in France by Joseph-Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre in the 1820s; the development of paper film by William Fox Talbot in England in the 1840s, leading to the introduction of flexible celluloid film by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1889; and the photraphic studies of animal motion made by Eadweard Muybridge in America during the 1879s and by Etienne-Jules Marey in France in the 1880s, which inspired Thomas Edison to decise the first modern motion-picture camera in 1891.In 1895 films were first projected for audiences by the Skladanowsky brothres in Germany and the Lumiere brothers in France.

The invention of the telegraph by Samuel F. B. Morse in 1837 and of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 revealed the communication potential of electrical impulses. By 1901, Guglielmo Marconi in Italy had discovered a way to use radio waves to transmit sound across the globe. Television- the transmission of pictures via these same radio waves- was the natural step.

--excerpt from Museum of Moving Images

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My friend & I made our own flip-book video which was only 5 seconds each run. It was really fun! We also brought the actual flip book at the museum store. I was really surprised that only 5 seconds of video took about a hundred images to show the actual movements. 

Here is a video of the ones we did on the big screen...enjoy ;]

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I also did the voice over for two characters: one is Babe from Charlotte's Web and the woman in the scene (I don't know her character name). This activity was extremely fun but tricky at the same time because you had to say the line at the exact same time as the character in the screen. I definitely had a good time.

(unfortunately the videos would not load on the blog ;[ sorry guys)

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I also did two animations. Basically you design the background yourself and you just take a screenshot of each photo. You need to be consistent with the images so when you replay the photos, it will look like a mini-movie ;]

(I don't know why it's really fast and short, the machine told us to take only 10 screenshots)

ENJOY !!!!! ;D