MOMI visit

The Museum of Moving Image provided a fascinating look into the history and role of film and television production. The most intriguing exhibit our group's tour guide presented was the sound effects in the movie Titanic. Because the movie is such a classic, I was very familiar with the scene used for the presentation. However I had no idea how many sound effects are added to make the actions and emotions more apparent.
Music is a very essential factor of film production as it helps evoke the feeling the producer anticipates from it's viewers, however music can only do so much. Our tour guide demonstrated the difference in visual affects by subtracting or adding certain sounds from the scene. For instance, when Rose fell onto a deck and there was no sound, as it seemed like was a small stumble, however with the appropriate sound added, her fall sounded like it was dangerous and hard in the hasty situation.
I also found the foley sound effects very interesting; they are sounds created in a studio for the purpose of a film and involve random objects or actions that produce a unique sound. For instance, when the ropes from the ship were snapping off, the dolly sound effect that was used was a rifle being fired. Or when the smoke chimney was falling, the sound effect was an elephant trumpeting, which sounds so unpredictable however when watching the movie fluidly with all the sounds in affect, not only does it fit in perfectly with the action, I would have never noticed it was an elephant until all other sounds were muted.