Final Project

The final part of the three part trilogy from my partner (Jorge) and I (Crystal). When people assume they make an Ass out of themselves. Here we watch a scared young man come face to face with his demons.

Trip to MOMI

The trip to the Museuem of Moving Images enlightened me in many aspects as this was my first visit. The museum depicts a very modern demeanor that resembles the Museum of Modern Art. One aspect of the museum that interested me was the special effects demo. The guide first explained the whole scene to the group, emphizising the demon scene was actually two shots. She then showed us the huge sweater of Freddy Kuegar in Friday the 13th part 4. This has always been one of my favorite movies from the 90's. Freddy was my introduction to horror movies while also giving me horrible nightmare. The tour guide described to us that the sweater (which was about XXXXXXXL) was designed on such a scale to have actual people be used as the demons coming out of his chest. It was scaled to be used in the close up aspect to give realism to the scene.  In the scene the sweater rips open to reveal the demons inside of him trying to escape. the use of people were needed to make the demons coming out more life like due to manual animated effects. It seems very time consuming but exhibits the skills and ideas of the designer.

My interest was defiantly prompted when our guide reveled to us the stretched prosthetic neck used in "Black Swan" by Natalie Portman's character. I could picture the scene as she described it in detail.  With Portman turning into a swan, the horrifying image of her neck being elongated freaked me out. As the guide is elaborately detailing the procedure and steps to create the mechanical working of the mechanism, I realize how amazon technology it and that it was not computerized but manual. The neck was designed with a rubber latex that was skin tones with a hydraulic inside to stretch the prosthetic to make it look extremely life like.  With computerized special effects many of the movie industry professionals still rather use manual special effects where ever possible. This gives it an authenticity that can not be achieved through computerized effects as it does sometimes look fake. Now knowing that this museum exists I plan on putting this on my favorite museum list right under the Met.