[microsound] Re: [ot] censoring a sound mix

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> http://tinyurl.com/mvddr
>
> I've not run into films being given a rating due to the soundtracks
> being 'too tense' for children before...weird...

I wonder if "Disney's The Lion King" composer Hans Zimmer should be  
proud or not? His work is so successful that it was partially singled  
out for raising the rating ... but also surely cost some box office  
receipts.


I was just reading how Bejing uses a public tactic of announcing a  
film has "has technical problems" with light and sound for films that  
seemingly really contain critical political and social content  
thereby denying them any release.

Then again Bejing's official ban on programming with talking animals  
last fall raised a smattering of foreign jeers.

Many works have been given a mature rating by various bodies as they  
"may be too intense" when viewed as a whole but as far as I know  
never has a ratings body pointed the finger at solely non-verbal sounds.

If I were Sony and I thought this was significant I'd ask for a re- 
screening with a referenced projection system and sound level meters.  
It occurs to me that perhaps if there wasn't an ulterior motive to  
the decision then perhaps someone cranked the volume up  
unintentionally... or maybe Sony used dynamic reduction techniques to  
pump everything up too much?

On the other hand the suspicious side of me wonders if maybe the  
censors just want an excuse that to the public sounds non- 
controversial rather than address anything religious.

Riffing on that theme I start to wonder if once this is accepted that  
perhaps maybe a future film with some middle eastern music + sounds  
that happens to have a "controversial" plot might conveniently have  
too much "tension" in the music.


On the other hand what's being done in the UK is comparatively mild  
at the present. There isn't a doubt over the film not being screened  
(like China). The ruling is about the age of young people permitted  
to see it. Taken as an isolated incident (rather than a springboard  
to do more variations on the same strategy). One would worry if it's  
applied to non-fiction films, you know, saying something like a new  
film with a topic younger people have a stake in has something wrong  
with it that keeps them out of the theatre.



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