This is the kind of rant I came here for
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Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 days agoAs a siren enthusiast, it gets old hearing the same few stock sounds used for civil defense sirens in films. You’ll get British WW2 siren sounds despite the movie taking place in the US, or they’ll show a siren but with audio from an entirely different siren. Even the recent Twisters movie even got it wrong, showing an American Signal Tempest-121 mechanical siren going off with audio from a Whelen electronic speaker siren.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 days ago
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Try working in cyber security.
“I’m going to build a GUI in Visual Basic”
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
There’s a few reasons for this, firing the real siren on set is not practical due to the audio levels, they could maybe record it separately but that’s an extra thing to do, and why bother when “air_raid_siren_004.wav” is right there? Also audiences are used to “air_raid_siren_004.wav” and they’ll know immediately what it’s supposed to be, if you played the real sounds and it’s too unusual, it’ll make the audience think about it and take them out of the story. There’s so much stuff like this I’m filmmaking where if you stop to think about it critically for a second it doesn’t make sense, but that’s the point they don’t want you thinking about that, they want you thinking about the story and the characters. I know that’s frustrating when it’s your topic but I’m sure you’re glad they do it like this in any other case.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’m well aware of why they don’t use the actual sounds, I don’t expect them to actually go out of their way to get recordings for it lol. It’s just very noticeable when you’re familiar with the sirens.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I hear you! I work in the field and felt like giving context, it’s hard to know what’s common knowledge and not sometimes. The main point is, a lot of this stuff isn’t “mistakes” but either deliberate so as not to distract or just way more convenient for the production pipeline.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
they do the same thing with phone rings.
It’s practically all one specific wall mount model, only the problem is that it was dubbed from a record recording, so it has warble on it. And you can very clearly hear it.