tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35679196.post2665916875329986721..comments2024-01-12T00:43:38.932-08:00Comments on TheSophomoreCritic: Fued of the Sound Mixers & The annoying focus on oscar loserssophomorecritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14320637485303592977noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35679196.post-75296639157706088202007-03-08T14:55:00.000-08:002007-03-08T14:55:00.000-08:00The value of Peter O'Toole honorary oscar was a mi...The value of Peter O'Toole honorary oscar was a minor tangent on my main point that we should be celebrating O'Toole's 8 nominations and not 8 losses. <BR/><BR/>I think if we took a step back from the oscars and just treated it like someone giving you an award, wouldn't it be unsportsmanlike to not take kindly to it and treat it like rubbish? I mean, think of the values we're sending here when we get all worked up over the oscars. That winning is absolutely everything and you must beat other people in a certain year. I hope we don't raise our Little League kids in this way in the way that we do with the Oscars.sophomorecritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14320637485303592977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35679196.post-21554303108645770082007-03-08T10:33:00.000-08:002007-03-08T10:33:00.000-08:00Getting an honorary Oscar is not the same thing as...Getting an honorary Oscar is not the same thing as winning one in competition. Peter didn't want the 'lifetime achievement' Oscar, and he was right. It's a stupid consolation prize from a stupid committe who belatedly realised he should have won an Oscar years ago - they had seven missed opportunities to award him one before his latest nomination for 'Venus' this year. Having cleared their consciences and 'put their house in order' by forcing the retirement prize upon him against his will and befofre his retirement it is unlikely he'll ever win one now, no matter how many more times the septuagenarian may be nominated. Which is a shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35679196.post-27215611591333136112007-03-08T02:14:00.000-08:002007-03-08T02:14:00.000-08:00Hey, your blogs really cool & I've linked you. :)Hey, your blogs really cool & I've linked you. :)Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09809699267788752653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35679196.post-45022799834149382982007-03-07T00:09:00.000-08:002007-03-07T00:09:00.000-08:00"I know quite a bit about the movie industry, yet ..."I know quite a bit about the movie industry, yet I have no freaking clue what sound mixing is, what it takes to be a good sound mixer, and of course which movie had the best sound mixing."<BR/><BR/>For what its worth, it basically involves taking the various elements of a scene: actor dialog, ambient sounds and musical score and combining them together in such a way that it sounds balanced and natural to the audience. It also includes things like automatic dialog replacement, foley, and any tweaks to the surround sound to create more of an effect.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17388580630080108495noreply@blogger.com