Note to Hollywood
Dear Mr. or Mrs. Hollywood Producer,
I saw on CNN that your industry is in a bit of a funk. Perhaps the reason is that your products suck lately. Here are a few random tips:
- Sound mixing should be about more than simply sliding every lever on your equalizer to MAX, then cranking the volume in the theater to 10. Look up the word "clipping" and the phrase "dynamic range", as they apply to sound mixing. Or at least supply earplugs when we walk in the door.
- Trying to fix a poorly framed shot by using so much camera movement that you inspire motion sickness... doesn't really fix the poorly framed shot. If your audience spends half of its time saying "What was that? or that? or... oh crap, I'm getting a headache", then you have probably overdone the camera movement.
- Special effects are first special, THEN effect. When they stop being special, does it really matter if they are technical wonders?
- If you spend 90 minutes on character and plot development, please don't finish your film with 60 minutes of car chases and explosions.
- We all know how much a good one-liner will get your movie in the press. But please understand that a string of 50 one-liners is not the same thing as dialogue.
- How much $ are you really saving by underpowering your projector bulbs? Do you realize how crappy the projection looks when underpowered?
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