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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> For Those Of Sound Mind >> Far from the Madding Crowd http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1503320703 Message started by WG on Aug 21^st, 2017, 1:06pm

Title: Far from the Madding Crowd
Post by WG on Aug 21^st, 2017, 1:06pm

Excellent film for cinema last night on BBC1, except for much of the time I could hardly decipher speech from music. At one point around 40 mins in I could have sworn that the speech was "peaking" at the same level as the incidentals.
It was a BBCFilm. On checking IDMB I see there were no fewer than 18 credits for those involved with sound. Splendid! :-[

Title: Re: Far from the Madding Crowd
Post by V Meldrew on Aug 21^st, 2017, 7:57pm

I agree entirely. The sound seemed to improve after about 20 minutes in. I was listening in 5.1 surround.

The first part had unecessary and loud music, I thought.

In my day there would have been a location sound crew of two, an editor and assistant, and then a dubbing mixer and assistant.