Media Blog 4

Nashwa Rockingster
Media Blog 160
May 13, 2015

Blog 4:

      My experience at the MOMI was wonderful! I really enjoyed seeing all the different artifacts. However, the one that stood out the most to me was the Bill Cosby set make-up. The colors were so vibrant and light, it ranged from a floral pink to a rosy red. There was an array of blushes, lipstick and powder. I personally love this aspect of the museum because I love make-up so much, especially that particular make-up color range. I found it interesting that the colors used on the Bill Cosby set was similar to the time period. In other words, the 80's was a time period of glitz, glamour, flamboyance and pop (when I say pop I mean the colors although the 80's is tremendously known for it's pop culture - music). The artifact I chose relates to this class in that different aspects of film can affect the way things look, even something as small as make-up can make a wide difference in the way things appear. We can see examples of this in all kinds of films. We know that when we watch something (particularly a film) a tremendous amount of work was done to shoot a scene or to make a character look a certain way to showcase an emotion or even an action. A great example of this would be a scene in Citizen Kane starring and directed by Orson Welles whereby Welles puts a shadow paper in front of the character who is wearing a starch white shirt so that the white doesn’t take away from the character and the deliverance of his performance. My time spent at MOMI was truly enjoyable and I look forward to going back.

Response to Working with Nicole and Janine

Nashwa Rockingster
Media 160
Final Project: Video & Audio 
May 13, 2015

                                     Final Project Response to Working with My Group
            
             I really enjoyed working with Nicole and Janine! They were amazing, we all worked well together. It was pretty easy to distribute between the three of us who would work on the audio aspect of the project and who would work on the video aspect and by the end we all finalized the project together in terms of tweeking and re-touching. I would gladly work with both of them again. The process in which we shot was pretty straight-forward, we spent the first week coming up with ideas and questions for those ideas (we came up with an idea pretty quickly - NAILS). By the second week we were shooting, we alternated between holding the camera and recording with the microphone device. By the third week we divided the work load, I worked on the video footage and Nicole and Janine worked on the audio, then we came together and put it together and tweeked and re-touched. It really was a wonderful experience. I enjoyed this project the most compared to the last two. I didn't expect to have so much with this. The interviewees were great also, I appreciated how friendly they all were and how willing they were to cooperate with us. I hope you enjoy the project as much as we enjoyed creating it. 

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