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More important than the imagery in terms of manipulating the audience

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In Reply to: RE: How important is it? posted by neillipes628 on January 30, 2013 at 07:37:38

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Audio cues are more important than visual cues in influencing how the audience responds to film. If you've watched a horror sequence with and without the audio, you know what I mean. Or watch it with circus music in the background and see how scary it is.

Audio and motion picture go hand-in-hand. Films like Master and Commander--where the audio, more than the video, makes you feel like you're on a ship--and Babel--which has a compelling soundtrack--suck you in by virtue of the audio cues alone.

This is why I'm amazed that so many audiophiles who come to this site say they don't care about the sound quality of their home theater system.
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RE: More important than the imagery in terms of manipulating the audience - neillipes628 16:46:59 01/30/13 (0)
Ok lets start with my favorite studio, Universal Pictures. I happen to be a Universal Pictures devotee (from the IMP days to 1936 when the Laemmles were forced out) and Laemmle family historian. That being said.....where to start? An excellent place would be with composer Heinz Roemheld..who working in a theater in Milwaukee composing music (for the pit orchestra)for the Universal film The Phantom of The Opera. Universal head Carl Laemmle, Sr liked what he heard and offered the young composer a position in Berlin at another Laemmle theatre..........shortly thereafter Roemheld was brought to California to head the music dept........he eschewed the usual Tin Pan Alley tune smiths, instead embracing the classical masters and their standard repertoire......Liszt, Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven and others........listen to most of Universals product during the 1930's.......and one will hear snippets of the great masters.

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