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Ashley Roth 11/22/17 During the trip to the Museum of Moving Image, there were many interactive exhibits I participated in. One of those exhibits was an exhibit where I used Automated Dialogue Replacement over a films dialogue. I said the words that the screen was displaying and it recorded my voice over the actors voice. I learned that the dialogue that is recorded while filming might need to be recorded over again due to complications such as unwanted noise or an actor messing up their lines. I learned that this process happens in a studio after filming. Another interactive exhibit I participated in was spinning the Thaumatrope and Zoetrope. It was interesting to spin the devices that I learned about in lecture. It was interesting to hear that the Thaumatrope was invented in 1825 by John Ayrton Paris. Changes in moving image technology changed the way people view movies and motion. I was able to see a visual representation of this by spinning these old fashioned ways of viewing...

In Alfred Hitchcock's black and white horror film Psycho, there are several camera shots that have a relationship to one another. This scene uses continuity editing throughout its entirety. Diegetic sound is used when the shower water is running since both the audience and Marion can hear it. A graphic match is used to show Marion showering and then shows a shadow of another person facing the same direction behind the shower curtain. An extreme close up is used to show Marion yelling as she sees the man holding the knife. That shows the point of view from the killer. However, the camera shows the point of view of both Marion and the killer. For example, we see the killer facing the camera and stabbing her but we also see Marion yelling in fear which the killer sees. When the camera shows the killer from Marion's perspective, he still appears to look like a shadow where the audience is unable to see his face even though the killer sees Marion clearly and with light on her. That ...