Museam Mile

The Museum of the Moving Image had incredibly interesting interactions. My personal favorite, the Automated Dialogue Replacement, was an interesting display of the true works of the audio of films. Before the tour I was never aware of the actual workings of ADR, let alone its use throughout films and TV shows. It was funny to see the actual workings of ADR by the examples with students. It also was a great display of how difficult it is to align dialogue that was filmed with the dialogue that replaced the previous sound.

It was also interesting to see a movie, such as the Titanic in each of the steps of adding audio. Starting from only the dialogue, then adding on layers of sound effects, then music to complete the whole piece. Overall the museum was an interesting adventure to Queens!

The streets in Bushwick, Brooklyn buzz with schoolchildren skipping down the concrete sidewalks. Mothers speak rapid-fire Spanish as the children squeal. In the background, construction workers start up a concrete machine that rumbles for minutes. Car tires rumble by slowly.

Somewhere behind a trashcan there are rats rummaging and pushing through cans. The crunch of shoes walking down the steps to the streets are muffled, but after listening for a while you can hear them more clearly.

Then finally after even a longer amount of time you can hear the brief small whispers of the wind and the creaks it makes when it hits the doors and windows of the apartment building. The smaller sounds of the wind and rats get louder, even though they originally were unnoticed.

Then finally my neighbor slams the door behind me and a car horn blasts. More kids go skipping down the block as I walk back upstairs. 

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