Guy Rowland
Senior Member
I'm glad to hear it, Rope. But your manner on the thread so far gave little indication of this, indeed suggesting that just because it was a major historical event that gave it superiority as drama, as if the craft were superfluous.
And I do think you did Hildur a serious mis-service with your snarky Spinal Tap reference, which is what irritated me in the first place. Although you can't apparently hear the score, most of us can, loud and clear. Funnily enough, a director friend brought it up today, saying he thought the score was exceptional. He didn't know how it was created (as I didn't until this morning), he was just responding to the finished product in how it supported the drama. In the end, that's what counts of course.
Could she have done as good a job with Omnisphere? She could probably have turned in a perfectly serviceable score in truth. But what sets Chernobyl apart from "serviceable" is that it feels as if every department did not settle for serviceable. The sound palette is unique, and while of course its a stretch to say that it couldn't have been unique recorded in a different way, to me it is entirely of a piece with what we are seeing, and it might be a little fanciful to say that is total co-incidence.
Final point as I've ground my axe for quite long enough I'm sure we all agree - Hildur comes across as entirely the opposite from the pompous un-self-aware Nigel Tufnel. Indeed she laughs at the notion that this level of immersion is normal or desirable.
And I do think you did Hildur a serious mis-service with your snarky Spinal Tap reference, which is what irritated me in the first place. Although you can't apparently hear the score, most of us can, loud and clear. Funnily enough, a director friend brought it up today, saying he thought the score was exceptional. He didn't know how it was created (as I didn't until this morning), he was just responding to the finished product in how it supported the drama. In the end, that's what counts of course.
Could she have done as good a job with Omnisphere? She could probably have turned in a perfectly serviceable score in truth. But what sets Chernobyl apart from "serviceable" is that it feels as if every department did not settle for serviceable. The sound palette is unique, and while of course its a stretch to say that it couldn't have been unique recorded in a different way, to me it is entirely of a piece with what we are seeing, and it might be a little fanciful to say that is total co-incidence.
Final point as I've ground my axe for quite long enough I'm sure we all agree - Hildur comes across as entirely the opposite from the pompous un-self-aware Nigel Tufnel. Indeed she laughs at the notion that this level of immersion is normal or desirable.