I took a playwriting class a long time ago where the teacher talked about how in music "the rests are just as important as the notes" and how it's the same when writing a script
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What we call "compression" tends to involve sucking all the empty space ("ma") out of "content" and it sucks
Cf. the "loudness war" when it came to music, i.e. "dynamic range compression" -- trying to make every second of a track equally loud so it "stands out" on the radio
Cf. the "loudness war" when it came to music, i.e. "dynamic range compression" -- trying to make every second of a track equally loud so it "stands out" on the radio
I keep thinking back to that viral video of those kids discovering Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" for the first time
And how that beat drop is totally meaningless if the song doesn't start out mellow and quiet and then build up
And how that beat drop is totally meaningless if the song doesn't start out mellow and quiet and then build up
The moment in Psycho where she actually gets stabbed is fucking stupid if you just watch the clip
Which is why parodying just that one clip became a comedy cliche
It's only a shocking heart attack moment after the prolonged attempt to pretend everything was normal before
Which is why parodying just that one clip became a comedy cliche
It's only a shocking heart attack moment after the prolonged attempt to pretend everything was normal before
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