OT: Editing is Mind Control for the Masses
rs170a
wrote on 1/22/2009, 10:32 AM
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xberk
wrote on 1/22/2009, 1:12 PM
These reworked trailers were fun to watch. It reminded me that most Hollywood filmmakers clearly understand that sound is the larger part of the moviegoers experience. Watch a film like "Dark Knight" without the sound and you lose a great deal of the impact on the brain. Borrow the sound from "Dark Knight" and you can make something else have greater impact.
"Mind control" might be the wrong term. I prefer "suspension of disbelief". We know it's a movie. But in a really good movie like "Titantic" for example, despite the fact that we know it's a movie and we even know how the story ends, we "suspend our disbelief" and get swept into it, having the emotions we might if it was all real. That takes good editing to be sure. But also good EVERYTHING else.
"Mind control" might be the wrong term. I prefer "suspension of disbelief". We know it's a movie. But in a really good movie like "Titantic" for example, despite the fact that we know it's a movie and we even know how the story ends, we "suspend our disbelief" and get swept into it, having the emotions we might if it was all real. That takes good editing to be sure. But also good EVERYTHING else.
John_Cline
wrote on 1/22/2009, 5:24 PM
"It reminded me that most Hollywood filmmakers clearly understand that sound is the larger part of the moviegoers experience. Watch a film like "Dark Knight" without the sound and you lose a great deal of the impact on the brain."
I come from an audio background and I firmly believe that sound is much more important than many people realize. It has always astounded me how many television producers with whom I work have so very little regard for the sound. Television without sound is basically an art gallery. Television without pictures is called RADIO and it has worked very well since the broadcasting boom of the early 1920s.
Watch the 6 o'clock news with the sound off and see how much you get out of it. Regular viewers rarely notice when the sound is good, but everyone can tell when it's bad.
I come from an audio background and I firmly believe that sound is much more important than many people realize. It has always astounded me how many television producers with whom I work have so very little regard for the sound. Television without sound is basically an art gallery. Television without pictures is called RADIO and it has worked very well since the broadcasting boom of the early 1920s.
Watch the 6 o'clock news with the sound off and see how much you get out of it. Regular viewers rarely notice when the sound is good, but everyone can tell when it's bad.
xberk
wrote on 1/22/2009, 7:37 PM
Indeed. Radio drama like Orson Welles version of "War of the Worlds" carried "suspension of disbelief" right over the edge.
But regards Vegas editing, I found that after I'm done with a piece and it seems to be what I want, I can almost always find ways to "sweeten" the sound and in the process give greater impact to the visuals. Vegas has the tools if you use them.
But regards Vegas editing, I found that after I'm done with a piece and it seems to be what I want, I can almost always find ways to "sweeten" the sound and in the process give greater impact to the visuals. Vegas has the tools if you use them.
busterkeaton
wrote on 1/22/2009, 8:35 PM
Speaking of War of Worlds and Mind Control. I heard this on the radio a few months ago, it's great. It was about the other broadcasts of War of the Worlds. People who took Welles's script and updated it, made it local and got the same response. Orson Welles got a movie contract out of the deal. The South American broadcasters had to flee the country.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/03/07
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/03/07