Recording Dialogue

[Bob Cole]

[Ty Ford] “the way the light falls off in the hallway”

Or, in “The Farmer’s Wife,” the way the cameraman instinctively holds the no-longer-a-two-shot when the angry husband leaves the frame, revealing the young wife staring at his empty chair…

Sorry for dumping on you, or seeming to, Peter. I think audio is under-appreciated, and the only time people talk about it is when it displeases them. The attention that George Lucas forced the theater owners to pay to audio speaks to its importance – and its low-place-on-the-totem-pole unless someone like Lucas says “Fix this, or else you don’t get the next Star Wars.”