Yes, in Gravity this is easily possible in the opening shot: it's a super long wide shot where Clooney is off picture in the beginning. There is plenty of tome to absorb the scene and the position of everything. This is an obvious opportunity to pan dialogue as it is really underlining the dramaturgical intent. And this always is the criteria. If the picture cuts are too fast (and this limit is reached soon), following the perspective panning-wise exaggerates the edits, makes them obvious and potentially destroys the seamless flow of the narration. That's the main reason for keeping the dialogue in the center. If the shots are long enough, if there are off-voices, if there is movement or something similar in a dramaturgical sense, then panning the dialogue to the position on (or off) screen may enhance the sense of space and the story. More than 90% of all dialogue is in the center, though. But yes, sometimes it is an improvement. And yes, in animation the voices are super-clean as they are recorded in a studio - and thus they can be panned easily if wanted. With location sound, there may be considerable background sound behind the voices - and if such a signal is panned, the (mono-) background jumps around as well. Very noticable and very disturbing. Location audio is very much used these days by many directors (Tarantino, e.g.). Robert Altman was famous for insisting on 100% location dialogue. This makes panning dialogue almost impossible, even if it would enhance the story.
Best, Florian ________________________________________ Von: Sursound [[email protected]]" im Auftrag von "Courville, Daniel [[email protected]] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 04. Februar 2016 18:15 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [Sursound] Dialogue in center channel,,, not always >>>And which director takes care about stereo compatible picture editing? > >Alfonso Cuaron is possibly one such director. Both Children of Men and >Gravity often panned the dialogue to match the position of the actor on >screen. It's very noticeable right at the start of Gravity; first you hear >George Clooney's voice coming from far right and as the shot zooms in and >you start to see him appear on the far right of the screen, his dialogue >moves across to match. Every Pixar animation movies have panned dialogues. Since the voices are recorded in individual booth, they start audio post-production with separate tracks for every voices, making panning easier and more effective, although making the mix more time consuming. - Daniel _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
