Compressed and LIMITED
Now if you've got any audio geek in you... you know about the death of dynamic range in modern recordings... stuff from the 60's wasn't BRICKWALLED to DEATH like most everything is today... Now its LOUD LOUD or QUIET QUIET... BLACK or WHITE no beautiful subtle shades of grey... in my mind DOE I see how this has happened in film as well and I'm not talkin about the sound though you could argue that film mixes have suffered the same fate...BUT I'm talking about the things in the film itself... the characters... they are either GOOD or BAD... none of those tweeny people who are MORE REALISTIC and 9000 times more interesting... the stories are also missing those shades of gray...its all black and white and wrapped up in plastic for you by the time the end credits roll... what happened to the dynamic range? The play? The breaths? The subtly? Its all like this now .... BANG EXPLOSION...EXPOSITION... BEST LIVE EVAR BANG EXPLOSION FROM BAD GUY and so on...
Alas the ART is in the GREY... the space in between love and hate... light and dark...
Watch some 80's movies and pay attention to the "bit parts" the random lil roles... even those characters are unique and have they own idiosyncrasies...
NOW by taking out all the dynamic range in life you are dumbing things down... making them simpler... in this culture of brevity everyone wants everything to be recognizable or understandable at a glance...a cliff note experience... thatS what I believe has happened... everyone has read the cliff notes on EVERYTHING but if you ask them to give you a detailed answer of description of a person, place, thing, or event it will usually draw a blank stare.... as they "don't have time for that" Many of the greatest and most beautiful things to be discovered in this life or on the way to yer destination whether that is an idea that is forming about WTF this film yer watching is about OR a physical place... if yer too much in a hurry you'll miss all the details and you will NEVER make ART EVAR...
So before you compress and limit yourself give it a little time and pay attention to the details... sit and watch the leaves of that tree sway in the wind... the more attention you pay to the subtleties in everything.... the more power you will be given to wield that same power in your works...
This BLACK and WHITE trend... truncating...compressing and limiting everything makes for a shitty world...boring things and boring people.
Be definable today and forgotten tomorrow.... the business world wants you to define everything in one sentence...thats fine if you yearn obsolescence...
Be undefinable today and irresistible tomorrow ^_^
Everyone loves mysteries...
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