Re: Recording a performance tomorrow, help needed!

On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 01:03:02 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Watching TV these days illustrates that no-one ever bothers doing that though.
Lip sync is a long-lost 'art'. I'd say you're lucky to see it as close as only
one frame out.

In America it varies between something (that might possibly be
convincing if I were to actually see it, but I don't; I only
ever see one commercial TV show, but never miss *it*... whatever...)

And the amazingly convincingly realistic sound of _Survivor_ on CBS
Thursdays here in the boonies.

Contestants run around in progressively less clothing in seemingly
tropical settings, athletic competitions, etc., matched pretty
dramatically seamlessly with night-vision views of Machievellian
dramatic plotting.

Never willst thou hear the slightest artificiality of sound (all,
presumably, outdoors) or see the slightest of boom mics in camera. No
visible lighting artifacts, either. I'd bet large that no lighting is
used (not including the hokey "Council" lighting, etc.), but I'm a
lighting amateur (only stage experience) so could be fooled.

The seemlessness of the camera work is somehow less technically
striking to me than the sound. Done some of both; pix can be several
angles; sound is usually only one right take for a gig even remotely
like this.

Let us call this ART! Or, at least, 'art', if the technology is so
transparent. A famous SciFi quotation about the borderline between
technology and magic struggles to come to mind.

Thanks, as always,

Chris Hornbeck
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