Unfortunately if you don't overload a film with CGI shite
the masses will decide that it's boring and staid and not watch, meaning you make no money and then if you ever make another film you fill it with CGI shite.
The same goes for a subject nearer to my heart, music. These days if you don't compress something to utter buggery you'll get ignored by everyone because it will sound very slightly quieter than everything else, which is then interpreted as poorly-produced. So we get to the point when albums mastered in the late 80s and early 90s are being remastered... and having their dynamic range totally wiped. Personally I don't actually mind it as much as many do... but when it's done badly it's totally horrible. The music pulses crazily and unpleasantly and makes me feel sick - or it pulses and then crackles because some idiot sound technician doesn't care to use a compressor properly.
Ugh.
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The same goes for a subject nearer to my heart, music. These days if you don't compress something to utter buggery you'll get ignored by everyone because it will sound very slightly quieter than everything else, which is then interpreted as poorly-produced. So we get to the point when albums mastered in the late 80s and early 90s are being remastered... and having their dynamic range totally wiped. Personally I don't actually mind it as much as many do... but when it's done badly it's totally horrible. The music pulses crazily and unpleasantly and makes me feel sick - or it pulses and then crackles because some idiot sound technician doesn't care to use a compressor properly.
Ugh.