About 25 years ago it became fashionable to have actors
who mumbled their lines - and some even won Oscars for so doing!
(???)
Mumbling is back - and big style - but it is worse
than before because they are now putting on voices to a background of very loud
music or the noise of vehicles and machinery. ('Luther' inter al.)My hearing is near perfect - and I struggle. Times-a-many I have to ask Mrs Blogger what was said - and she has no idea either.
Frequently, both of us rewind a portion and after straining STILL cannot hear what was said after listening to a key sentence a number of times.
Furthermore, what is it with this trend of having the sound go very high and very low on some programmes? We have to sit with the hoofer doofer at the ready to constantly mediate the excesses. (No apology for the split infinitive - I LIKE them!)
Why can they afford high bills for special effects people but are not able to afford employing a single, bog standard sound engineer?
