Mon. 12/06 - Why Is It So Hard To Hear Movie Dialogue These Days?
Do you feel like the dialogue in movies has gotten harder to understand? It’s not just you. Sound professionals dish on all the reasons why it’s gotten worse in recent years. Plus, a giant steel structure coming soon to Tasmania has already...
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Show Notes
Do you feel like the dialogue in movies has gotten harder to understand? It’s not just you. Sound professionals dish on all the reasons why it’s gotten worse in recent years. Plus, a giant steel structure coming soon to Tasmania has already started recording us to provide evidence of our shame to future civilizations. And honeybees that survived for weeks under volcanic ash after the eruption in the Canary Islands.
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Links:
- The Real Reason You Use Closed Captions for Everything Now (Wired, 2018)
- Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) (Slash Film)
- October episode on open captions (Kottke Ride Home)
- This Mysterious, Indestructible 'Black Box' Will Tell The Future What Happened to Us (Science Alert)
- Earth is getting a black box to record our climate change actions, and it's already started listening (ABC Australia)
- Honeybees Survived for Weeks Under Volcano Ash After Canary Islands Eruption (NY Times)
- Kottke.Org
- Jackson Bird on Twitter
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