Museum Visit

The Museum of the Moving Image offered a lot of useful insight of behind the scenes of film production. Although I didn't get the chance to interact with as many exhibits as I would have liked, I did get the chance to experience one computer-based interaction. This was the flip book section, where a camera records your movements for a few seconds and then turns the video into several images that you can print out and make into a flip book.
I found this interaction fascinating for a few reasons. The first, being that in lecture we learned about how flip books were inspiration for a lot of film makers. The ability to see how a series of images can turn into motion became an interesting thought that lead to things like animation. Similarly, a series of shots make a scene. Small sections, when put together, make a story come to life and I think that was what the flip book originally inspired.
The ironic part of this interaction was that this time it was a computer filming a video and then turning it into images, the opposite of the original flip book. This shows just how far technology has come and what it is capable of doing. To create a flip book today, you don't need to take a series of images, all you need is a computer and five seconds of motion. It seems so simple to us now that we don't even think about how many years of experimentation and invention was needed to get to this point.