Christian Spaeth Posted September 12, 2016 Report Share Posted September 12, 2016 Can someone tell the American actors in Narcos to Freakin stop MUMBLIN?! Sorry, had to vent... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Cameron Posted September 12, 2016 Report Share Posted September 12, 2016 That sucks. I feel that. I did a film two years back with a crowd who espouses mumbling so much...that it became a new genre. Yikes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumblecore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olle Sjostrom Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Call the manufacturer! Seriously, I agree. And while we're on Narcos (haven't seen more than ten minutes of the first episode of season 2), could someone also tell someone they don't need the VO to tell us everything we just saw, one more time. Narcos is very impressive though. At least season 1 was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Visser Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 my GF is deaf (or doesn't listen, not sure which), so all Netflix watching is with subtitles on, guess I haven't noticed the problem yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Spaeth Posted September 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Most of the show is in Spanish with subtitles, so most of us won't pay as much attention to the dialogue, but I think I've never watched any show before where almost all the actors are mumbling super low pretty much all the time. To the point where it gets hard to make out whate they're saying in close ups. Must be some kind of disease. Goes for the Spanish speaking actors too, by the way. I do love the show though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codyman Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 I've been watching this show with my girlfriend and have been having a different kind of problem. My girlfriend is fluent in Spanish whereas I speak it extremely poorly so she'll laugh/gasp/react to things upon hearing them, whereas I have to read the subtitles so our timing is always never in sync to what's going on! She also can glance away for a second and still know what's going on whereas I have to focus at all times. On a sound note, it seems to me that a lot of the original dialogue was used in the series. On my 5.1 system, I can detect some noise reduction on various scenes (especially since they are outside a lot) but overall it's sounding pretty dang good considering all the crazy locations they shot in! Lots of unbuttoned, tucked in dress shirts with jeans (hey 1993!) with a lot of chest hair too which must have been a challenge for the sound team so shout out to them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Why you don't like VO, Olle? Sometimes works very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olle Sjostrom Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 Just personal opinion that the VO should never tell the viewer what they just saw, it sort of locks down personal interpretation and reflection, which I think it's pretty crucial to any artwork. But again, that's just like... my opinion... Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Spaeth Posted September 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2016 16 hours ago, codyman said: I've been watching this show with my girlfriend and have been having a different kind of problem. My girlfriend is fluent in Spanish whereas I speak it extremely poorly so she'll laugh/gasp/react to things upon hearing them, whereas I have to read the subtitles so our timing is always never in sync to what's going on! She also can glance away for a second and still know what's going on whereas I have to focus at all times. On a sound note, it seems to me that a lot of the original dialogue was used in the series. On my 5.1 system, I can detect some noise reduction on various scenes (especially since they are outside a lot) but overall it's sounding pretty dang good considering all the crazy locations they shot in! Lots of unbuttoned, tucked in dress shirts with jeans (hey 1993!) with a lot of chest hair too which must have been a challenge for the sound team so shout out to them! I agree, shout outs to the sound team for having to deal with such a set of extremely low talking mumbling actors. +1 on the audible noise reduction in post, another reason why a lot of the dialogue is not as clear as it could be, I suppose. Dangerous tool. When in post you fall in love with how it can get rid of bg noise so much that you don't realize how it blurs out the edges of your dialogue, making it even harder to understand than before... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcoronado Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 i lold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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