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| From | Mark Smith <markmsmith@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Music in Films |
| Date | Wed, 18 May 2005 11:58:15 +0100 |
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This really annoyed me too in the cinema with Bridget Jones. Really
crass and overly literal choices of music simply designed to sell
soundtrack albums and add nothing to the film.
I find the mixing on all DVD's a pain. I'm always concerned about
annoying the neighbours with my loud TV so constantly sit with the
remote and adjust the sound accordingly. We watch almost everything
with subtitles now. I always put it down to nothing being mixed for
plain stereo now but instead assuming you have a multi speaker home
cinema setup. This means that all the dialogue is mixed to the edges
of the sound picture and the sound effects and music to the middle (?)
meaning that on my 2 speaker setup the dialogue is lost and the
effects are overly loud. TV stuff is mixed for a 2 speaker setup hence
it's not too much of a problem when watching this.
This problem isn't limited to DVD's I don't think. I find a lot of
films in the cinema overly loud too.
Mark
On 5/17/05, Michael McCartney <michaelmccartney@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Beth wrote:
>
> Embarrasingly enough I was watching "Bridget Jones 2"
> with my sister the other week, (it was pretty grim) and not
> only was annoyed with the fact that the musical choices
> were so "in your face" telling you what the mood of the scene
> was supposed to be, but also the fact that the musical
> bits were SO MUCH LOUDER than everything else in the movie!
> Now I do not watch a lot of DVDs, but sis does and says this
> happens all of the time. She is esp. sensitive to it since
> she often watches movies after my lil niece goes to sleep, so she
> tried to keep the volume down.
>
> Anyone else notice this?
>
> Beth
>
> Michael replies:
>
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