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How much editing?

posted 18 years ago by beakerfoo
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Is it just me or do some gunshots sound like they were added in post-filming. For instance, the part where the guy talks about a rat in bag.

It's almost like maybe there was real fire, then the rat incident happened about 10 minutes later, then the director thought to himself:

"Wow, they're more scared of a rat then they are of gunfire. How can I convey that concept to the audience? I got it! I'll edit the gunfire so it seems like it happened in the same moment. Then they'll get it. "

From that one scene, I started to feel like I was recognizing it from that point onward. Added gunfire. I'm now skeptical about at least 50% of the movie's gunfire.

Anyone else? Rewatch it if you're bored and think that in your head. You'll see what I'm talking about. Or maybe I'm just too skeptical.

[–] interlingua_usa 17 years ago

No, I didn't get that feeling. One thing that might make the gunfire seem fake is that we're all so used to fake gunfire we don't recognize the real thing in the movies. In dramas, when they add sound-effects gunfire, they make it much deeper, boomier and longer than it is in reality. Real gunfire is sharper, shorter, poppier, and higher than the sound-effects version.