Blog #4 MoMI Visit

FILMP/MEDP 160 – Field Trip / Museum of the Moving Image
SPRING 2016 – Visit and Blogging Assignment


The Museum of the Moving Image is in Queens, on 35th Avenue at the corner of 36th Street
in Astoria. The Museum has fairly recently re-opened and has a variety of exciting new
exhibits. See www.movingimage.us for more information.

There will be no lecture on April 18. Instead we will be going to the museum during
Dean’s hours that week as a class. We will meet at the museum on Wednesday, April 20
at 1:00 PM, and we have booked tours with museum guides. You will be finished by
2:30pm.

You are welcome to stay afterwards. Please give your lab instructors $6.50 cash ahead of
time, but if you haven’t done that please bring it to the museum. This is the discount rate
for tours (normally it's $10.)

From Hunter, you take the 6 train to 59th Street (or walk down). Then take the M or R train
to Steinway Street (Do NOT take the N train). Use the 34 Avenue exit near the end of train.
Walk south along Steinway Street; turn right on 35 Avenue. Proceed three blocks to Museum
entrance just past 37th Street. Check www.movingimage.us for other options.

At the museum you will find exhibits and demonstrations relating to many aspects of media
production. Your assignment is to go to the museum and, with your group, experience at
least one of those demos, and report on your blog about that participation. In this blog you
should make an effort to explain what you discovered about a specific aspect of media
production, what you learned that you didn’t know before, in a way that might
communicate to the non-initiated. How have the changes in moving image technology
changed the way moving images are created, how they look, and how we experience them?

This blog is 250 words in length. NOTE: Attendance is required.

If your work schedule does not permit, you can find the Museum open most days, although
you will not get either a tour or a discount.

Blog is due in Lab 11