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Thread ID: 119193 2011-07-10 02:05:00 Documentries and music mikebartnz (21) PC World Chat
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1215838 2011-07-10 02:05:00 I'm watching "My best friend's a bear" on National Geographic at the moment.
A very nice documentary set in Yellowstone Park, but why do these have to have stupid music interfering with the speech all the time making it impossible to hear him when he is whispering. Have the audiences got so stupid that they won't watch something like this without the music trying to make it a fuller experience.:mad::mad::mad:
mikebartnz (21)
1215839 2011-07-10 05:43:00 There seems to be more and more programs like that - music should be background, only louder for effect when needed. wainuitech (129)
1215840 2011-07-10 06:06:00 There seems to be more and more programs like that - music should be background, only louder for effect when needed.

And to think - someone spends time "composing" it specially and gets paid for their crap "interpretation" of what's going on! :annoyed:
tuiruru (12277)
1215841 2011-07-10 07:24:00 That is even more annoying than movies where the sound effects are twice as loud as the speech. The docos I have watched lately have use background music correctly, but they are probably old ones I haven't seen before. Greven (91)
1215842 2011-07-10 08:55:00 That is even more annoying than movies where the sound effects are twice as loud as the speech. The docos I have watched lately have use background music correctly, but they are probably old ones I haven't seen before.
Yeah, that'd be right. I'm finding the newer ones are being peppered with over-dramatic sound bites -GROWL !!
tuiruru (12277)
1215843 2011-07-10 09:12:00 And I thought it was my hearing as I grew older. It seems there are younger people who have the same problem.

On many shows the music is much too loud, and as Tuiruru says, the sound effects are often too loud as well.

Apart from complaining on this forum is there anything we can do?
Roscoe (6288)
1215844 2011-07-10 09:21:00 Apart from complaining on this forum is there anything we can do?
Apart from getting hold of the producers and giving them a flea in their ear I doubt it.
mikebartnz (21)
1215845 2011-07-10 09:23:00 And I thought it was my hearing as I grew older. It seems there are younger people who have the same problem.


I was at a talk last week by a representative from a local Hearing Association. Apparently, with ipods/mp3 players etc, the current crop of teenagers/20 somethings are going to have the hearing levels of a current 70 year old by the the time they're in their 40's. It seems that most people don't understand that a jump from 50 db to 100 db is not a simple doubling in volume!! See here (www.howstuffworks.com)
tuiruru (12277)
1215846 2011-07-10 09:35:00 I was at a talk last week by a representative from a local Hearing Association. Apparently, with ipods/mp3 players etc, the current crop of teenagers/20 somethings are going to have the hearing levels of a current 70 year old by the the time they're in their 40's. It seems that most people don't understand that a jump from 50 db to 100 db is not a simple doubling in volume!! See here (www.howstuffworks.com)
A while ago I met a guy who was 26 and a DJ and he was near clinically deaf from his occupation.
mikebartnz (21)
1215847 2011-07-10 12:23:00 Quite often when I shoot movies with my camera I find that the sound needs to be removed. This is for instant wind noise, traffic noise or unwanted background speech. This can be replaced with music or dubbed with a commentary. It is good to have natural sound but natural sound can be distorted by other noise.

If I use both speech and music I prefer to use music as a background so that the speech can be heard.
Bobh (5192)
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