I was amazed tonight (7/16/07) as CBS provided a free lesson on music scoring and foley for two of their shows.
No question it was an accident. Criminal Minds started and I soon realized I am hearing no dialogue, just the music score on my HD channel off the satellite. Not sure if the problem was at the Boston affiliate or at the network transmission hub. The 4:3 Boston channel had the full audio.
I became fascinated listening to just the music score with occasionally a few foley sounds, but very few. The commercials were in full audio. I watched the whole show instead of working on a project I am in the middle of. When CSI: NY started, the same thing happened for the first 39 minutes. In that show there was a little more foley, and occasional soft dialogue when they were in a room that might have lots of reverb. So, I began to think I was listening to the surround channels, which might account for the small amount of foley effects.
I was fascinated by the experience. I appreciated how very subtle the scoring was. And how little foley I heard. I have it on my DVR and will put it on a DVD at some point to go back to to "educate" myself again in future months.
Amazing where and what we learn when we least expect it.
No question it was an accident. Criminal Minds started and I soon realized I am hearing no dialogue, just the music score on my HD channel off the satellite. Not sure if the problem was at the Boston affiliate or at the network transmission hub. The 4:3 Boston channel had the full audio.
I became fascinated listening to just the music score with occasionally a few foley sounds, but very few. The commercials were in full audio. I watched the whole show instead of working on a project I am in the middle of. When CSI: NY started, the same thing happened for the first 39 minutes. In that show there was a little more foley, and occasional soft dialogue when they were in a room that might have lots of reverb. So, I began to think I was listening to the surround channels, which might account for the small amount of foley effects.
I was fascinated by the experience. I appreciated how very subtle the scoring was. And how little foley I heard. I have it on my DVR and will put it on a DVD at some point to go back to to "educate" myself again in future months.
Amazing where and what we learn when we least expect it.