[Les Cargill[_4_]]

Nil wrote:
On 20 Dec 2017, Trevor wrote in rec.audio.pro:

What I find annoying about such films is the sound effects are
usually ear splitting loud, but the dialog is often hard to hear.
:-(

My theory about that is that many big-budget, SFX-laden action movies
are made for the world market, including (maybe especially) non-English
speaking countries. The movies are crafted so that the story is told
mostly visually, with a minimimum of dialog, and that dialog is fairly
simple and easy to dub for foreign markets.


That's really good point. There's a Matt Damon fantasy release from
this year, and watching the trailers for it, I thought "They don't
care how that does in the US; they just care how it does in China."


This leaves the sound and
visual effects of primary importance - the dialog is almost
superfluous. You can follow the story even without it. It's mostly a
roller coaster ride, anyway.



I think they just mix 'em with the wrong room volume. Probably too loud.
The Fletcher-Munson curve predicts that.

Then again, it might be that I'm expected to have a center channel
speaker cranked up to carry all the dialogue, and the interns
do the stereo mix.

I have no idea why you can't hear the dialogue any more. Why bother
having a movie at all if the people onstage don't have anything to say?

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Les Cargill