There has to be a cue, of course, but I watched "Wind in the Willows"
on TV last night (the latest, acted version with Bob Hoskins as
Badger and Matt Lucas as Toad) and they had completely the wrong
sounds for a little steam engine in England. Not only was the "sound
of whistle in the distance" plainly from a larger, US locomotive
(double and discordant), but the "chuff-chuff, setting off from the
railway station" noises missed out one of the regular steam valve
sounds, easily as loud as the main "chuff".
But the worst of the simplistic sound effects is the squealing of
tyres. Not only do we have squeals in films when the car is clearly
not push the edges of tyre adhesion but I have seen it when the tyres
are on all manner of inappropriate surfaces such as grass or mud!
Chris
On 2 Jan 2007, at 00:49, Moose wrote:
> Winsor Crosby wrote:
>> I hear it all the time, in movies and in television episodes, in
>> which it represents a picture being taken even with digital cameras.
>> You wonder how they can be so clueless about something that much of
>> their audience is aware of.
>>
> Perhaps they aren't clueless at all. Foley artists are very aware
> of the
> associations people have with sounds and their whole job is to create
> sound cues that help keep the story clear. A soundless camera, even
> with
> a flash of light in the frame, doesn't assure that the audience "gets"
> it that the person waving a camera around just took a picture.
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