I KNOW that this is mainly just me, but sadly, as much as I loved the old-school Horror feel of the film, I just could NOT stand the bloody awful sound design. I know... I've mentioned this in the past. But, when EVERY sound, every paper rustle, every footstep, every car door opening, wheels on gravel, clothes rustling with every movement, even lighting a frigg'n MATCH for God's sake, the sound is cranked up so damn high that it just takes me out of the movie. Period...
Too bad too... And, in all honesty, this probably won't bother a lot of other people like it does me. But, to me personally, it is SO damn amateurish and SO frigg'n UNNATURAL, that for me, I just cannot get immersed into the film, no matter how great everything else is.
All I can humbly suggest is this...
PLEASE, for all that is Holy... Keep the damn sound design NATURAL, like we would normally hear things when in the room with these people. Bloody STOP cranking EVERY damn sound up to 100 decibels, okay...?
A real shame too because I'm sure that if I could have taken a couple of Valium or something to keep me from going insane (well, MORE insane...) I would genuinely have loved to see how the film turned out.
PLEASE... a simple warning to all aspiring and beginning film makers... PLEASE do NOT fall into this stupid, HUGELY distracting amateurish trap that so many new directors do. LISTEN to your work... Think about the audience and how they are hearing and perceiving things. KEEP it bloody NATURAL so that we can get absorbed and lost in the story, okay...?
Too bad too... And, in all honesty, this probably won't bother a lot of other people like it does me. But, to me personally, it is SO damn amateurish and SO frigg'n UNNATURAL, that for me, I just cannot get immersed into the film, no matter how great everything else is.
All I can humbly suggest is this...
PLEASE, for all that is Holy... Keep the damn sound design NATURAL, like we would normally hear things when in the room with these people. Bloody STOP cranking EVERY damn sound up to 100 decibels, okay...?
A real shame too because I'm sure that if I could have taken a couple of Valium or something to keep me from going insane (well, MORE insane...) I would genuinely have loved to see how the film turned out.
PLEASE... a simple warning to all aspiring and beginning film makers... PLEASE do NOT fall into this stupid, HUGELY distracting amateurish trap that so many new directors do. LISTEN to your work... Think about the audience and how they are hearing and perceiving things. KEEP it bloody NATURAL so that we can get absorbed and lost in the story, okay...?