Music and Soundscape in Television...
Posted: 2005-03-11 01:03pm
So I'm watching Judging Amy in syndication on TNT like I often do when I don't have class this time of day. There's this whole portion of the episode that's set in a bar with a live band playing.
What often happen when they have live bands on TV shows occurs, which is that they don't sound like they're actually playing, and instead, sound like they're synching to a studio recording. The same thing happened yesterday when a scene showed the band going through a rehersal.
Now, I don't have a problem with the actual lipsynching itself. I know that they can't always find actors who can also sing at a professional level, or deal with the production problems that working with an actual band playing during shooting would produce. They can lipsynch until the cows come home and I'd be cool with it.
The problem I have is with how it sounds. Making a live performance sound like a studio recording totally ruins the experience for me. I notice it clear as day, and it pulls me completely out of the diegesis of the filmic world. In my opinion it wouldn't take that much effort to make the studio recording at least sound like it occurring live. Hell, even a kid with a sound editing programme can do that within ten minutes, so it irritates me that for years this hasn't been done by professionals.
So, comments? Additions?
What often happen when they have live bands on TV shows occurs, which is that they don't sound like they're actually playing, and instead, sound like they're synching to a studio recording. The same thing happened yesterday when a scene showed the band going through a rehersal.
Now, I don't have a problem with the actual lipsynching itself. I know that they can't always find actors who can also sing at a professional level, or deal with the production problems that working with an actual band playing during shooting would produce. They can lipsynch until the cows come home and I'd be cool with it.
The problem I have is with how it sounds. Making a live performance sound like a studio recording totally ruins the experience for me. I notice it clear as day, and it pulls me completely out of the diegesis of the filmic world. In my opinion it wouldn't take that much effort to make the studio recording at least sound like it occurring live. Hell, even a kid with a sound editing programme can do that within ten minutes, so it irritates me that for years this hasn't been done by professionals.
So, comments? Additions?