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Darren New wrote:
> That sounds like the review that encouraged me to watch it.
And, if you haven't seen "eXistenZ", that's a great movie too. Very
cool, worth watching twice.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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Darren New wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> That sounds like the review that encouraged me to watch it.
>
> And, if you haven't seen "eXistenZ", that's a great movie too. Very
> cool, worth watching twice.
>
I haven't, but it is on my queue. I'll bump it up a bit higher on your
recommendation.
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> So why are movie makers so afraid of putting a realistic pause between
> the lightning and the thunder?
Maybe because then the viewer might not realise it's lightning? Sometimes
IRL I can't tell whether it's thunder or someone wheeling out their bin :-)
so on TV I guess there's even more scope for confusion. Better to make
things overly obvious I guess.
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scott <sco### [at] scott com> wrote:
> > So why are movie makers so afraid of putting a realistic pause between
> > the lightning and the thunder?
> Maybe because then the viewer might not realise it's lightning? Sometimes
> IRL I can't tell whether it's thunder or someone wheeling out their bin :-)
> so on TV I guess there's even more scope for confusion. Better to make
> things overly obvious I guess.
I suppose that could be one possible rationale. It just seems very common.
I wonder if movie makers have some kind of instruction book on how to do
these things "correctly".
--
- Warp
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> I wonder if movie makers have some kind of instruction book on how to do
> these things "correctly".
Maybe in a book like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Special-Effects-Video-Manual/dp/0240514742
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Warp wrote:
> This one puzzles me really:
>
> In almost all movies and TV series, where there's lightning, the sound
> of the thunder is played exactly at the same time. I can't remember any
> exceptions to this rule.
>
> I really can't understand why. In reality the thunder almost never
> starts sounding immediately with the lightning but there's always a
> pause, often of several seconds. Practically 100% of people know this
> from lifelong experience.
Movies aren't reality, but in any event, most of the lightning strikes
in the movies I've seen were up close, and not off in the distance.
Regards,
John
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John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Movies aren't reality, but in any event, most of the lightning strikes
> in the movies I've seen were up close, and not off in the distance.
Is 300 meters "up close" or "off in the distance"? IMO that's pretty
close (for a lightning strike). Yet, it takes the sound almost a second
to travel that distance.
The ligthning strike has to be *really* close (even dangerously so)
for the light and sound to be undistinguishably separated.
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Is 300 meters "up close" or "off in the distance"?
For that matter, just watching the guys hammering on the roof of the
house at the end of the block I can see a delay between the visual and
the sound. Of course, nobody is adding in the hammer sound after the
fact here. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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Warp wrote:
>
> The ligthning strike has to be *really* close (even dangerously so)
> for the light and sound to be undistinguishably separated.
>
I can assure you that if in real life you don't realize the delay, the
sound of thunder is one freaking ass-kicker.
Dunno how much there was space between us and that flash, but one hit
pretty near (now that I think of it, I think it was less than 100m - I
can't be sure, 'cause it was "a bit" shocking) and was practically in
sync. That was LOUD. It felt like it kicked my stomach around with just
that noise.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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> Dunno how much there was space between us and that flash, but one hit
> pretty near (now that I think of it, I think it was less than 100m - I
> can't be sure, 'cause it was "a bit" shocking) and was practically in
> sync. That was LOUD. It felt like it kicked my stomach around with just
> that noise.
Similar story here - not as close as Darren was, I'm sure. I have no
idea how far away it was, but I did not perceive any delay. I was
walking on the sidewalk while it was raining heavily, and two people
were doing likewise on the other side of the street.
The thunder was so loud that all three of us fell to the ground.
--
Two robins were sitting in a tree. `I'm really hungry`, said the first
one. `Me, too` said the second. `Let's fly down and find some lunch.`
They flew to the ground and found a nice plot of plowed ground full of
worms. They ate and ate and ate and ate `til they could eat no more.
`I'm so full I don't think I can fly back up to the tree`, said the
first one. `Me either. Let's just lay here and bask in the warm sun`,
said the second. `O.K.` said the first. They plopped down, basking in
the sun. No sooner than they had fallen asleep, a big fat tom cat snuck
up and gobbled them up. As he sat washing his face after his meal, he
thought, `I just love baskin` robins.`
/\ /\ /\ /
/ \/ \ u e e n / \/ a w a z
>>>>>>mue### [at] nawazorg<<<<<<
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