Topic: HOW NOT TO DO AN AUDIO COMMENTARY (Read 4458 times)

bk · « **on:** July 14, 2021, 12:16:56 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a textbook on how not to do an audio commentary, and now it is time for you to post until the commentary cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 14, 2021, 12:17:45 AM »

And the word of the day is: SALIENT!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:09:12 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:11:57 AM »

The laundry is in the washers, and it will go into the dryers in around 40 minutes. This afternoon Fed Ex will pick up two more cartons for Miami University Library, and that will be the end of my shipments for some time.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:14:16 AM »

I slept rather poorly last night. I was restless, I had several dreams I no longer remember, and I could not get comfortable. I'll try to nap when the laubndry is finished.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:16:26 AM »

Stella escaped while I was coming up from the laundry room, which is still a complete mess, but I was able to lure her back inside by rattling a bag of kitty bonito flakes which she loves. She and the other two devils have been quite rowdy this morning.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:16:56 AM »

DR vixmom, I loved your story of the married couple and the therapist.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:18:15 AM »

I hate to admit it, but I rarely listen to commentary for most movies I watch on DVD. I make an effort for most of the Criterion discs and movies I really like.

singdaw · « **Reply #8 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:18:20 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #9 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:18:39 AM »

Did you hear the one about the traveling salesman?

singdaw · « **Reply #10 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:18:51 AM »

singdaw · « **Reply #11 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:19:27 AM »

I am reticent, very reticent, at this moment.

singdaw · « **Reply #12 on:** July 14, 2021, 04:21:15 AM »

DR elmore3003, my copy of Knowing Britten is supposed to have shipped. It was on backorder for quite a while.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 14, 2021, 05:23:12 AM »

Kitty cleanup is finished and the laundry is in the dryers. After all this activity, I needed to sit down for a bit before I head back to the basement.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 14, 2021, 05:25:12 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on July 14, 2021, 04:21:15 AM

DR elmore3003, my copy of Knowing Britten is supposed to have shipped. It was on backorder for quite a while.

I enjoyed it so much that I bought Christopher's third Bottom book, and reread the fist two. I'm on Bottom Feeder now.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 14, 2021, 06:21:31 AM »

The laundry is folded but not put away. I need to make the bed and have a little lie down.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #16 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:14:47 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #17 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:21:12 AM »

Those phoned-in group commentaries are (I think) antiquated, and usually awful.

One I remember being particularly disappointed in was for The Haunting (1963). Not that the participants weren't saying some worthy things. But it was so dry, and disconnected. (I don't mind a "live" commentator inserting a few recorded remarks from someone else when necessary, but it's got to be for something worthy, and be kept to a minimum.)

I do like a good one, though. The ones BK has either done himself or participated in are good examples, and there are others. I'd have to browse through my collection to come up with some, but they're definitely out there.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #18 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:21:14 AM »

Alons, enfant de la patrie!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:28:41 AM »

Well I can be here on Mondays and Wednesdays but on Fridays I go fishing.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:30:12 AM »

OMG - well for me there is ONLY one DVD commentary worth the title and that is MR BK & Susan Gordon on BEGINNING OF THE END.

It is a MUST for any fan of that movie and indeed of MOVIE commentaries. That is the textbook on HOW to do a commentary.

THE END.

THE LIVING END.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:31:18 AM »

I have a day off!

Last night I was at the box office at 5 p.m to NOT sell tickets for Pillow Talk since there aren't any left. But I did sell 10 tickets for JOSEPH/DREAMCOAT.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:32:13 AM »

I stayed to handle the will-call and refreshments until curtain time.

Sold stuff at intermission....and then cleaned up the theatre - with the help of Sandi, my dependable partner.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:34:11 AM »

Well my cousin who is/was in Pillow Talk fell down backstage last Thursday.....a CT scan Monday revealed no brain damage or concussion. She is having an MRI today......her husband thinks she tore a muscle in her leg.....

The DIRECTOR is now "playing" all three of HER roles - even though he has had plenty of time to recast - but of course he is glorying in attention..... OH WELL.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:35:03 AM »

I do now have a full cast...Ric a board member volunteered to take a role....so I moved young Cameron to Issachar and put Ric in as Jacob.....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #25 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:37:41 AM »

There are many commentaries that I dislike - or hate as the case may be.

But I guess the worst is on the DVD of the 1953 version of TITANIC. Robert Wagner is dropped in....Audrey Dalton is dropped in....and Titanic "expert" Silvia Stoddard declares that the reason that the character is not named BRUCE ISMAY is because he was still living when the movie was made.

I am NOT a Titanic expert, but I know that Bruce Ismay kicked the bucket in Ireland in 1937.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:38:47 AM »

Honorable mention to MR BK & Cindy Williams on THE CREATURE WASN'T NICE.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 14, 2021, 07:39:00 AM »

Moving on.....

Jane · « **Reply #28 on:** July 14, 2021, 09:25:39 AM »

From Vixmom:

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I called for an appointment and the X-ray van will be at my home next Tuesday at 1

That is convenient.

Jane · « **Reply #29 on:** July 14, 2021, 09:26:08 AM »

John I am sorry your mother's birthday dining experience was difficult.

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