posted
Most of the time productions of "clips" will add music not for mood setting but to cover up bad dialogue recording or what they believe to be background noise. It is de-factor a reason to avoid music period, as the production sound is already uneven and will add more confusion when mixed with a music track, A bad idea overall. I think this is not the case here with this video so here goes.
@Veronica V./OP:
In the video clip in question linked to above, I heard two things that may irritate the viewer.
Diegetic Sound is in stereo, a big no-no, the two girls in front and camera operator in the back, a big no-no as it adds stereo separation and positioning similar to what music is. They are sitting at a stereo stage.
Speech should be in mono and dead center in both channels, music bed in stereo, that way psychoacoustically they do not overlap.
The music bed contained a lot of bit-crushing/noise effects - pertinent to that genre, they sounded a lot like recorded production sound, causing annoyance when listening as they are with in the same frequency range. This annoyance is _subliminal_ more so then conscious. Thereby someone says, "this is bad" or "i don't like it" etc.. But all the bit crushed shakers sound just like the "s" in "so talented" then "ksshhh..." from the music - also those music effects mask all the other PFX or Production Effects, including breathing, things you'd pick up from the bed, rumble during movement, making it less realistic, unless those are put back in afterward as on a SFX tracks or Foley.
Music queues on cross-fade do not match the edit points on the first dissolve. And the cue takes longer to fade than the 15 frame dissolve on video. Typically the music x-fade should come in after the edit point if a dissolve is ahead, or if there is a x-fade it should just be a smash cut to the next scene. X-Fade should be less than 5 frames of video long in that situation.
Music is mixed above the dialog norm for dynamic range of video or motion picture, vs. CD records.
Music does not have volume fader rides when talent is speaking, nor a side-chain compressor on the audio track that reacts to the speech track causing a decrease in music volume. Hence the perceived "drowning" in sound effect and difficulty making out what is being said.
Veronica V. you're more than welcome to Google any of the following and read about it. But this is pretty much my analysis of "why" the responses was less than what was expected.
Music can be used, just needs to be used with greater care, and obviously more stereo separated than center channel speech. This way during quiet moments music can be heard, and so can speech of the actors involved.
Obviously this is hard to do on a C4S post production budget, this is why most leave music out, outright.
It also sounds like the dialogue track contained some elementary broadband noise reduction on both channels making speech sound very tinny and shiny loosing its original timbre.
Overall sounds like some work did go into the sound of this trailer, so I can empathize with the feeling you have after the response and commentary.
posted
I can't stand music in my porn. I think it ruins it.
Anyone familiar with Fellucia Blow (Camille Crimson)? She has some fantastic blow job videos that are always overlayed with "artsy" music.
Some of the best BJ videos I have ever seen, but I don't like them nearly as I would if the music was excluded.
Posts: 237 | Registered: May 2008
| IP: Logged |
posted
Out for me. a little lead-in music is fine but then I want no music.I want to hear all the sounds.
Posts: 9728 | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged |
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
Printer-friendly view of this topic
