Continuity Space Project

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Blog 4: Trip to MOMI

On my class trip to MOMI a few weeks ago, I was intrigued by all the exhibits. And three I found compelling. I enjoyed looking at the set design exhibit, where there were small models of sets, there was a really complex model of the serial killer's home from "Silence of the Lambs" that I remembered. You don't get to see it from a bird’s eye/omnipresent view. It looked very labyrinthine because of the layers. The tour guide at one point told my group that pretty much everyone, possibly even including the actors would be the ones who would discuss the set design, for instance where shots would be taken, where the actors would be situated, etc. Another exhibit that I found intriguing was the costume exhibit. It was a small exhibit, but with bold and vivid costumes that were worn by pose-able mannequins. I noticed the costumes from Chicago and Miami Vice, which quickly caught my eye. Since these were the most noticeable ones from my group the guide discussed the importance of costume design and used those pieces as examples. She mentioned the difference between a costume and our everyday clothes is that although we create our sartorial identity with colors, and certain styles that are telltale signs of our moods, character, weather, location and time period; costumes have an exaggeration of this, yet it’s universal. A costume would therefore amplify a character’s personality, which makes it one of the facets of a dimensional character. And, of course, I really enjoyed the interactive section, which had a sculptural zoetrope.  The difference between this zoetrope was that instead of having the backside of the wheel act as a gap that creates the illusion of motion, it had strobe lights do the trick.