[geeks] 24 inch monitors

Rick Hamell hamellr at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 13:41:19 CST 2008


> On Jan 1, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 
>> It is not the job of the movie makers to adjust for your TV being
>> off,
> 
> You misunderstand me.
> 
> I mean I wonder how much they use this when they create their masters.
> 
> Like, when you go to the theater to watch a movie, do they use sound
> delay to increase tension in horror flicks, or use the opposite to
> induce calm.

Both actually. There is a whole science behind using sound in movies to
increase/decrease tension. It's unluckily one of the reasons why you also
hear the same freakin' sound clip in every single horror movie.

Rick



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