Brokeback Mountain Blowouts?

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ptalsky

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Hi all,

I went to see Brokeback Mountain over the weekend. A very well acted, beautifully shot film....but....

There were several, very noticable blow-outs in dialogue that I wouldn't have expected. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen it and did they notice it? (The dialogue was just two characters talking...not in any of the yelling scenes...)

I know, I'm probably beening way too picky, but actually I'm wondering if it was a problem with the speakers in the theater or if they really released the movie with the blowouts.

(This is one thing I really hate about being involved in production audio...it can ruin the movie magic for me...when I went to go see the last Star Wars episode, it was totally blown for me because the audio was so bad...the levels were up and down and all over the place, the mic perspective was clearly off many times, and on and on and on...the worst part was this was ILM and Lucas, and they had like 50 people credited just on the sound team...and the audio still sucked.)

Oh well...


Phil
 
didnt skywalker sound do the sound for that? i didnt really notice, but i watched the dvd release where it was probably compressed anyway.

going to see brokeback mountain in the next couple days, it just got released here in sa, so ill give you an international answer to that one when i can!

cheers,
tim
 
Tim,

I think you're right...it was Skywalker (all essentially the same...it's all Lucas. ;-) (Okay, don't blow up at me for saying that...).

Either way, they still had an enormous budget to work with and still didn't get it good.

Phil
 
I've actually heard the same thing while watching V for Vendetta last week. At some points during the film the audio seemed to have turned mono for a few seconds. That occured quite a few times, enough to cause the whole audience to audibly moan every time it happened. So.. My guess it's just a local theatre problem?
 
Most the time it is not the film it is the print of the film. It happens when the gate of the projector jumps a little. That’s all. Skywalker ranch is not going to let a movie with blow outs noticeable ones to go out. They do a ton of ADR and would just replace the dialogue.

I was a projectionist for 5 years and I still go in and build movies when I have time
 
Dmitry Kichenko said:
I've actually heard the same thing while watching V for Vendetta last week. At some points during the film the audio seemed to have turned mono for a few seconds. That occured quite a few times, enough to cause the whole audience to audibly moan every time it happened. So.. My guess it's just a local theatre problem?
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I would be willing to bet that something got wacked witht the DTS timecode track and when that happens it reverts to the stereo optical track on the film. I guess it would probably do the same for Dolby Digital too.
 
Just to clarify, the film that Skywalker did was the Star Wars one (episode III?). And I really don't think the sound problems with that film were strictly in the theater or in the print (it was a digital "print").

The film with the blowouts was Brokeback.

Phil
 
I did some quality control work on one of the video masters and there were definitely a few distortions in dialogue at times. If I recall correctly one ocurred when Ennis yells at the guy who sees him throwing up in the alley and another during the scene where Ennis and Jack are in an argument when they're talking about Jack's trips to Mexico (among other things).

I don't remember any distortions during dialogue where they weren't raising there voices, so I'd imagine it was a problem with the print or the theater that you watched the movie at like some of the folks have mentioned.

Overall the audio was far from being perfect, but I think the main factor why was the small production budget they had to work with.
 
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