Subtitles On: Why is movie dialogue so hard to understand?
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Directors' influence on actors and the impact of technology on audio production
Some directors, like Tom Curly, will constantly correct actors, while others allow them to interpret the role on their own. The advancement of technology in filmmaking has made editing and audio clean-up easier, but it also presents the temptation to overuse effects. Filmmakers used to be more diligent in getting the dialogue right during filming because fixing it later was more difficult. Digital audio now allows for tweaking and enhancing performances, but it also gives editors easy access to a multitude of effects. Some editors tend to play around with these effects simply because they can.
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