Charles Robinson wrote: >On Mar 2, 2013, at 12:41 , Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2. Why do radio and TV ads depicting camera shutter presses still >> insert the sound effect for a film-era motor drive? Wake up you >> ad-creating doofuses!! It's not 1995. > >The sound-effect for most every digital camera (including cellphones) tends to >use this very same sound. > >I sorta "get it" as an effect on a small electronic box so you have positive >feedback that the image-taking has occurred. I DON'T 'get it' as a foley >effect for a non-film-era digital SLR being used on a show... then it's just >sloppy!
The job of the foley artists is to provide the sound the audience expects - or whatever will emphasize the action on screen - not provide *real* sounds. That's why we get spaceships making whooshing sounds in the vacuum of space and handguns making the sounds of field artillery. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
