A minor irritation. aka The Anorak thread.

CabanSail

This probably applies to any subject where one has a reasonable amount of knowledge ( yes .... an anorak)

On TV and Movies, when someone is taking photo's you can see they are using a DSLR but the sound effects they use is inevitably that of a Film SLR with a Motor Drive.

Granted a Film SLR is a much sexier sound .... it just is like a V8 burble is so much better than a whining turbo .... but it's also just wrong too. Seeing a D3 or 5D winding on film just ruins the illusion.


I know ..... I should not look at these things that seriously.

Anyone else have the same minor annoyance?

Have I now ruined escapism TV for someone?

stoneill

Nothing to do with photography but since we are talking minor irritations:

When there is a sudden change in mood in comedy shows the background music
ends suddenly with the sound of a needle being scratched across a record.

I doubt that most viewers even know what a vinyl record looks like never mind drag a needle across one.

11811

I've actually noticed this my self as some one who studies music technology and is into photography and now that you mention it, bugs me a little too.

Noticed it in the Wire, fist couple of seasons they use a Nikon 35mm SLR but then it changes to a EOS 10d... same sound.

Audio post production boys not paying attention!

Jaysus I must be another one of those anoraks...:p

I can't remember the TV show I was watching at the time, now, but I had a laugh a little while ago when something was happening in some TV show, and there was a guy at a podium giving a speech.

In the background you can hear all these clicks (like, hundreds of them in a matter of seconds!) and the flashes were like non-stop strobe lights going off. Hundreds of flashes.


Camera pans out, and there's three photographers standing in front of the podium (which is raised up over them). Two are taking photos and one is clearly checking his camera for something. One of the people taking photos isn't even using a flash gun.


It's gonna annoy me now trying to think what it was I was watching, but I thought it was hilarious at the time.

BlastedGlute

There's a lot of sound fx in the public domain that are of preference by those in the industry because they dont have to pay for the use of that sound.

There's a whole tonne of famous sound fx that gamers are familiar with, simply because gaming has a repetitive quality and you tend to hear these sounds over and over again. (as in, the many door opening and closing sounds in the resident evil series, these become very familiar!!!) And then you hear these sounds used in film and tv all the time, because they come from the same public domain library.

I have heard the police cb radio from grand theft auto used in so many tv shows it hurts. The exact same bit of muffled murmuring. As for the cameras, it's just ignorance on behalf of the producers. The same thing was happening with mobile ringtones for a long time. They've managed to get around this by opting for the sound of a phone on silent but with vibrate on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiDGBIRNi8U

shemwhistler

The most egregious photo/video irritation has to be;

"Zoom in, zoom in, isolate sector 2 and enhance, enhance, clean that up"

Enhance what?

Grrrrrrrr. :mad:

DaireQuinlan

shemwhistler wrote: »

The most egregious photo/video irritation has to be;

"Zoom in, zoom in, isolate sector 2 and enhance, enhance, clean that up"

Enhance what?

Duhh. The image of the registration number of the murderers car which is reflected in the window which can be seen reflected in the eyes of the VERY WOMAN WHO'S JUST ABOUT TO BE MURDERED ! All taken from some 640x480 CCTV footage.

This http://www.slashfilm.com/lol-the-reoccurring-prop-newspaper/ sort of stuff can be maddening once it's pointed out, particularly if you start noticing it and smugly point it out in the middle of a movie only to be told by your wife to stop being such an asshole...

shemwhistler

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

Duhh. The image of the registration number of the murderers car which is reflected in the window which can be seen reflected in the eyes of the VERY WOMAN WHO'S JUST ABOUT TO BE MURDERED ! All taken from some 640x480 CCTV footage.

This http://www.slashfilm.com/lol-the-reoccurring-prop-newspaper/ sort of stuff can be maddening once it's pointed out, particularly if you start noticing it and smugly point it out in the middle of a movie only to be told by your wife to stop being such an asshole...

Sorry, my bad.

I've seen that post on /film before, it's a cracker, it's the Wilhelm scream of props.

And yeah, wives are funny that way, they often don;t care that this guy was in the season 4 episode of TNG where he played a Klingon.

It's like they just don't care

Promac

The reason for all this is because all the sound effects in movies and TV are fake - they're all recorded separately by someone called a "Foley artist". It's quite interesting how they do some of the sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNvKhe2npMM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_artist