I totally agree; and found much the same on many of the recent Bond
films. 'Tomorrow Never Dies' was especially overladen and noisy; perhaps
they felt they had to cover up the more than usually silly plot.
But I do have to acknowledge that the sound system in our local Frome
cinema is probably not the best available. Film spatialisation seems far
too often to involve routing this sound to that speaker. And it seems
almost mandatory that all dialogue is on the Centre speaker. Yet there
are commercial Ambisonic sound libraries, so where are the state of the
art films which use them?
FWIW, there is a "sound design" group on Yahoo Groups (does come through
as simple email), which is focussed on film sound. It's not a busy
group, a trickle of messages from time to time. Currently there is a
thread on foley, and how to record very quiet things. A few posts
announcing sound libraries n'stuff. I have no idea if anyone is on there
who is a film sound "A-list" person.
Richard Dobson
On 21/11/2015 08:09, Michael Chapman wrote:
...
Think I may have already told this one: Quite some years ago I had
insisted that the children watch videos in the original language _and_
without subtitles.
I caught them with the subtitles on.
They responded that the subtitles were in the same language as the
soundtrack, and they had them on because they couldn't hear the dialogue.
I listened for a bit ... and apologised.
Presumably there are special plug-ins that destroy sondtracks. It would be
fascinating if someone would (anonymously, I presume) come 'out' and share
the dirt ... ...
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