MOMI Reflection

I don’t typically enjoy museums much so my expectations were low going into MOMI. As the tour went on however, I was pleasantly surprised by this museum. I was intrigued by a lot of the exhibits, like the costume recreations for movies I’ve liked, and the “Saturday morning cartoons” exhibit with the retro living room set up was really cool. The content was just a lot more interesting for me than a lot of the museums I’ve gone to on other class trips.

This trip was great for the course because the museum surprisingly had so many hands on exhibits pertaining to media production. My tour group got a chance to try pretty much everything, but I really liked the ADR exhibit, which ended up being a little harder to do than it looked. The exhibit where the tour guide changed the soundtrack over a movie scene was also really informative because it illustrated how influential the track can be. They pretty much changed the whole context of the scene just by changing the musical atmosphere, so while some tracks fit the scene in some ways, it really changed the feel of the scene in ways that wouldn’t fit in so well in the actual movie. The exhibits like this were funny to mess around with but a learning experience at the same time.

I’ve never even heard of this museum before taking this class, but I’m glad I got exposed to it and I’ll definitely be making a trip back there in the future.