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3 comments:
Philip Rheinheimer
said...
For an article about sound terminology, there were surprisingly few specific to sound terms and a lot of lighting and rigging terms. I found the term "biscuit" to be the most interesting one, and also most humorous one. It's like a thermostat in an office building. Most of time they aren't actually hooked up to anything but it makes people feel like they have control. It's the same with a biscuit. You obviously don't want someone on coms who will just be complaining the whole time and using the line when you actually need it to call a cue or hear a cue called. Why not take it one step further and just give them a headset so that way you don't have to waste a beltpack and just tell them it's wireless?
I have to say that I enjoyed this article more than I expected. Going through the terms it was interesting to see which were just a joke, which were there for "muggles" as Kevin likes to call them, and which were actually a sound specific term. It was also interesting to see how disgruntled audio workers are and the rivalries that they've developed.
I enjoyed this article quite a bit. Having heard some of these terms in the past but not knowing what they meant made reading this article quite fulfilling. I agree with Philip in the sense that these terms are not exclusively sound terms but believe that they may have started out as and/or retained their integrity as Sound terms even though some other departments may have taken them up. I think that the way the article introduces some of the more serious terms first and works more into the funnier ones makes the article more interesting the longer you read it.
3 comments:
For an article about sound terminology, there were surprisingly few specific to sound terms and a lot of lighting and rigging terms. I found the term "biscuit" to be the most interesting one, and also most humorous one. It's like a thermostat in an office building. Most of time they aren't actually hooked up to anything but it makes people feel like they have control. It's the same with a biscuit. You obviously don't want someone on coms who will just be complaining the whole time and using the line when you actually need it to call a cue or hear a cue called. Why not take it one step further and just give them a headset so that way you don't have to waste a beltpack and just tell them it's wireless?
I have to say that I enjoyed this article more than I expected. Going through the terms it was interesting to see which were just a joke, which were there for "muggles" as Kevin likes to call them, and which were actually a sound specific term. It was also interesting to see how disgruntled audio workers are and the rivalries that they've developed.
I enjoyed this article quite a bit. Having heard some of these terms in the past but not knowing what they meant made reading this article quite fulfilling. I agree with Philip in the sense that these terms are not exclusively sound terms but believe that they may have started out as and/or retained their integrity as Sound terms even though some other departments may have taken them up. I think that the way the article introduces some of the more serious terms first and works more into the funnier ones makes the article more interesting the longer you read it.
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