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  1. I did say earlier that the last I read, there were some that did have teeth, but if I'm not mistaken, this reclassification of the flying reptiles didn't happen until the mid 80's where they all but split them based on size and teeth.

    Small ones with rudders and teeth, large ones with crests and no teeth (mostly).

    This was also done because the sexually dimorphic specimens were considered different species rather than male/female.

    But none of this matters in regards to this excepting my original point: the pterosaurs in JP3 are mutants... which was my whole point...we never see, past them and perhaps spino to a degree, any "mistakes"

  2. conceded. but the point still stands...they're toothless...and to bring it even further back, they ones in JP3 are mutants where as the "non-mutant" authentic Pteronodon Longiceps as seen in TLW finale do exist on the island along with Sternbergi.

    That's another point....there are about a dozen more species that we know exist but aren't seen in the films...

  3. Even if they had teeth that wouldn't fossilize, you'd find proof of structure to hold them. And the argument is moot... Pteranodon* means "Winged and Toothless." lol

    A second, smaller skull soon was discovered as well. These skulls showed that the North American pterosaurs were different from any European species, in that they lacked teeth. Marsh recognized that this major difference, describing the specimens as "distinguished from all previously known genera of the order Pterosauria by the entire absence of teeth." Marsh recognized that this characteristic warranted a new genus, and he coined the name Pteranodon ("wing without tooth") in 1876.
  4. lol... I use to help run a Jurassic Park encyclopedia website. i know my shit! lol

    Not to mention I've made a fully realistic and fleshed out timeline of events in the JP universe (film universe) along with probably/possible events and alluded to events. I then took that and elaborated into the future and wrote a story based on that. Granted, it will never be a movie, but it's the definative JP4 to me lol

  5. The thing you're all forgetting is relevance: How do you keep it relevant?

    Whats the one thing that Jurassic Park is all about? Mans arrogance and belief he can control genetics.

    But whats the thing we haven't really seen in Jurassic Park? Because the films are attempting to NOT be monster movies, the animals are, for the most part, accurate. But at the same time, any genetic venture would have thousands upon thousands of duds and inbreeds and so on (Chaos Effect anyone?). JP3 hinted at this by the fact that Spino wasn't on the species list. It wasn't because they were 'hiding something' as Grant kinda alludes to, it's beacuse no one would have known what it was in the 80's when the dinosaurs were first bred! They would have assumed it was some mutant Baryonyx.

    Spinosaurus was discovered before WWII but all its remains were destroyed in the German Bombings. Even before this, the skull was extremely fragmentary and one need but look at the toy line to The Lost World to see that even up until then, we thought that the Spino had a Rex like skull. Not until just as JP3 was being produced was a nearly complete skeleton discovered and the true family of the species was ascertained.

    Also, the Pterosaurs are inbreeds. Pterosaur means winged and toothless. The Pterosaurs in JP3 have wings but have TEETH which no large flying reptile (excepting a rare one here and there) had. Pteronodon Longiceps (upon which it was based) certainly didn't have teeth.

    So the big thing that hasn't been shown are the rejects...those that couldn't make it in the park. There's even a line in the scripts about how only certain species that were recovered were even able to adapt to this world.

    So we have this whole mythos of animals created...monsters...that never really are talked about. On top of that, what makes a monster? The DNA being used is from Mosquitoes...how the hell would you know what you're bringing back? And fossilization is a RARE occurance. For all you know this "monster" that LOOKS like a smaller rex is a species undiscovered.

    Now to make it relevent...genetic ventures are some of the most lucrative businesses around. Everything from food to clothes has some benefit from this. So how do we make it relevant?

    Let's make a parallel between...lets say...engineering Dinosaurs...and oh I dunno...Engineering children perhaps? Or food...etc...

    Make a parallel. The technology used on the island was decades ahead of its time (we still haven't 'caught up'). The dinosaurs are protected. The island is isolated... but why would anyone go back? Not for the dinosaurs... not for the thrill... for the technology. To find that which was left to rot away in the Jungle.

    To Reverse engineer what Dr. Henry Wu did to create the dinosaurs...so that technology could then be used to make someone rich today in new genetic ventures.

    sorry... just had to say...there is a LOT to write about

    As for characters? Who were those most effected?

    Dr Wu: Single handedly bred over 30 species of dinosaurs, undoing extinction. Takes a boat off of Isla Nublar never to go to work again. A lifes work...gone

    Tim/Lex: Brother and sister, saw the islands first hand through different eyes... how might that effect their views?

    Eric Kirby: Having SURVIVED the island, what mysteries might he have seen? What secrets might he hold?

    Dodgeson: Need I say more?

    Hammond: What else can he divulge from the dark history of InGen?

    That's only returning characters too..

  6. But I think that all albums suffer from wrong notes. If you ever listen and compare to the actual score, I've found a myriad of instances where instruments come in late or don't play at all...things like that which vary from performance to performance. That's the BEAUTY of a live performance though. Its never the same.

    And I think this has far more to do with changes made by the conductor in rehearsal (i.e. the one run-through before the recording). Studio musicians are the best sight readers in the world. On the rare occasion that somebody misses an entrance, I'm sure Williams would not just let it go.

    I think Williams tends to over-orchestrate a little so that he has options for instruments to tacet when he wants to reduce the texture.

    There's that too but I've had instances where the winds might come in a little late or scoop into a pitch. There are instances where there are things dropped but I mean stuff that obviously wasn't or was performed wrong...heh

  7. gonna move this from PM to here

    so its the same track. the click is gone. same take. The sound I'm hearing doesn't sound like a mens chorus unless they're like...singing it like ghotsts...it sounds more to me like Williams exhaling and making noises... or some other weird stage noise. I can't hear any vowels or words in the sound...so I have trouble jumping to the conclusion its the choir.

    Do you hear the wrong note in trumpet 2?

    I guarantee 100% Million percent it is the men singing

    They sing a half note then two quarter notes

    the first quarternote has the "eeeeee" sound as in bee.

    I hear that... but it almost sounds like humming... but its so brief... but why would they sing? There's no words... unless they're singing to themselves quietly and for some reason no one thought to turn them down in the mix...

    You are thinking backwards.

    It obviously - I can tell by the notes- is the beginning of the third verse which was recorded and not used. It snuck through past the engineer somehow.

    They didn't do it "live" - in other words - its an editing mistake.

    Hense my opinion the whole album is full of these little crappy mistakes and is sub par.

    I've not seen sheet music so perhaps this is a dumb question but third verse?

    Comparing to the HA1 Choral version it has the same set up verse/refrain and the same amount...

    Do you have the conductors score to show that by chance?

    -B

    I'm not saying it's not possible... but I'm not sure I'd go as far to be as certain as you are unless there's maybe a conductors score or something showing why this is a partial recording.

    Then to further say it's a proof of bad editing... I, again, dunno if I could say that. Mike is very capable and very honest with his work. We could always msg him too to see if there's some proof to there being more to the recording and even perhaps shed some light on why it sounds like the men may be continuing.

  8. The click is not present in my release. As for the mens choir singing, I hear breathy sounds... but its hard for me to leap to the conclusion that its the mens choir singing anything as the song to them is over... I always imagined it was Williams himself getting into it and making kinda breathy sounds as he conducted which I've heard before in other recordings. I mean, in Temple of Doom, "Strangle Hold" starts with an "Umph!" Literally heh

  9. I don't have that album to compare but I will say original album releases by Williams are never amazing. It's only when they do something special for them like they did for Home Alone II do they sound much better... hence why I spend so much time redoing all my album recordings.

    There are only a few Williams albums that sound amazing. Home Alone II, and despite its grevious flaws, I think that the UE of Episode I has an AMAZING mixing job...hell...amazing editing job (even though I hate that they edited anything at all lol). Those are the best ones... of ALL the works he's done...THOSE... the SE of STAR WARS is my next favourite... followed closely by the Anthology Box Set of the Original Star Wars scores.... but what do you notice in all these cases? They are NOT album releases...they are special edition releases... which, as you should be well aware of, is the nature of the "Album" beast... trying to maximize sound and balance to be able to be heard on most systems without clipping or crackling... most people utilize some sort of bass/trbl boost on their radio/iPod/etc so the albums automatically are lacking in these ranges... its kinda sad. makes me miss LP's.

  10. aha! So you're listening to the Album release... which I do not own. I only have the Expanded Edition which is a two disc set that has pretty much everything on it. It's been remixed and remastered and sounds BRILLIANT!

    They may also use different takes of tracks than whats on the album too so that could alleviate what you're hearing too. As for pops it could also be a cd rip error.

    I have a damn good ear and it drives people on this board crazy lol :-p...I think I drove Mike Matession crazy too when I asked why the expanded Home Alone set wasn't made from the original masters and instead is a hybrid of the Album masters and some secondary/tertiary copy of the masters. lol

    If I get my hands on the album, I'll give it a listen and let you know my thoughts :-)

    EDIT:

    Hang on... 19 tracks is the Home Alone album...I'm talking Home Alone II... or did I completely misinterpret this thread,...

  11. Have you listened to the Star Of Bethlehem as used in the church scene in Home Alone 1 recently? LOL...the poor Glock player is sooo bad they don't even include it in the album mix.

    1 point for Griffendor--I mean Home Alone II

    Listen to the choir direction in "Christmas Star" from home alone II. Clean consonants. Very together. I don't hear the people singing at 2:43 though... I do hear williams "umphing" the horns though.

    2 points to home Alone II

    But I think that all albums suffer from wrong notes. If you ever listen and compare to the actual score, I've found a myriad of instances where instruments come in late or don't play at all...things like that which vary from performance to performance. That's the BEAUTY of a live performance though. Its never the same.

  12. The stress of birth is enough to cause women to sometimes not survive. I always interpreted it as she was dying already so they had to take the babies from her because her body was shutting down. The force choke may have crushed more than just her throat...and I imagine it might be reasonable to say it cut off blood supply to the brain too. Doing that could cause a lot of weird things.

    It's vaguely anonymous and meant to be very...Greek epic poem like. Losing the will to live is great and all but that's only truly important if like... you're fighting to stay alive which I always interpreted that she was needing to because of what Anakin did.

    I made an edit of Episode III where I edited out a lot of the lines to just be "She is dying. We need to operate quickly."

  13. Wasn't sure if this had been posted but its an AMAZING read:

    http://www.starwars.com/media/general/moswros_thefinalchapter.pdf

    Day 1: Wednesday, February 2, 2005

    6M3 Padmé’s Visit (reel 6, cue 3 for that reel)

    1M7 The Death of Dooku

    6M4 Heroes Collide

    4M3 Palpatine’s Seduction

    Day 2: Thursday, February 3, 2005

    6M9 Revenge of the Sith

    Revenge of the Sith DVD Version

    3M5 Good-Bye, Old Friend

    2M5 Grievous Travels to Palpatine

    5M7 Anakin’s Dark Deeds

    2M3 Another Happy Landing

    6M6 Yoda Falls

    5M1 Palpatine Instructs Anakin

    4M1x Drawing Swords

    Day 3: Monday, February 7, 2005

    5M3 Lament

    7M3 The Birth of the Twins

    7M4 The Death of Padmé

    7M6 Padmé’s Funeral

    3M2a Palpatine’s TV Set

    1M4a Get ’em, R-2!

    7M7 A Home for the Twins

    Day 4: Tuesday, February 8, 2005

    6M7 The Boys Continue

    7M2 Anakin Crawling

    4M4a Fighting with Grievous

    7M5 Plans for the Twins

    4M5a Padmé’s Ruminations

    7M1 The Immolation Scene

    4M1a Good Guys Arrive

    Day 5: Wednesday, February 9, 2005

    2M1 [no title]

    5M4 Swimming, Droids, and Yoda Farewell

    5M6 Moving Things Along

    3M3 Palpatine’s Big Pitch

    Day 6: Saturday, February 12, 2005

    1M3 Boys into Battle

    2M6 Scenes and Dreams

    3M7 Riding the Lizard

    6M2 A Moody Trip

    6M8 Rev. Yoda to Exile

    3M8 Obi-Wan Fares [sic] Droids

    5M5 News of the Attack

    Day 7: Sunday, February 13, 2005

    3M6 Going to Utapau

    4M4 Rolling with Grievous

    3M2 Hold Me

    2M7 Be Careful of Your Friend

    Day 8: Monday, February 14, 2005

    1M4 They’re Coming Around

    3M1 Council Meeting

    4M6 I Am the Senate

    1M6 Count Dooku’s Entrance

    5M3a Bail’s Escape

    Day 9: Thursday, February 17, 2005

    1M5 The Elevator Scene

    6M1 It Can’t Be

    7M8 End Credits

    4M5 Dialogue with Mace

    Not Assigned

    2M4 Revisiting Padmé

    6M5 **Choir Only**callout 009

    Note: The Star Wars theme will not be re-recorded; a preexisting version will be used for Revenge of the Sith.

    Additional days 10 and 11 are scheduled for February 18 and

    19, if needed.

  14. Some of my favourite scores are from this genre/sound:

    1) Battlestar Galactica (the Bear McCreary version)

    2) Munich

    3) Passion of the Christ

    4) The Mummy (The Mummy 2)

    5) Rendition

    The Duduk is such a warm and WONDERFUL instrument! Its technically Armenian but is used to add that Middle Eastern Flavour :-)

  15. I guess I should have posted this here :

    Love it! Makes me want to watch the movie again hehe

    some notes:

    1) The original Koepp script for TLW was almost identical to the novel except that it had to take into account Hammond being alive and a few other small details. It had Ian developing a group like in the novel and going to reconstruct his reputation. Hints of similar themes are used in the final script/film but his main motivation changes completely.

    The other major difference was Spielberg asked Koepp to write the script first rather than, like In Jurassic Park, having other hands (including Michael Crichton himself) have a go. Koepp had been the final writer of the script for JP (working from both Crichton's and another writers drafts) where as in The Lost World, Koepp never so much as phoned Crichton about it. They were developed separately. The evolution of the script to what we saw on the screen, however, I would argue, was mostly Speilberg who made a lot of interesting decisions during the production of the film.

    Despite having a massive budget, Spielberg didn't utilize a lot of it. Originally, New Zealand had been spotted for location filming but due to the expense was dropped and exchanged for locations in Northern California which, although they look great, came at a price--they were filming a "tropical island" in winter and many night scenes reveal puffs of "breath." The price of building a backlot "Workers Village" also must have changed his decision on building on the backlot, shrinking the town from being a massive pterosaur ending, to simply a walk though, exchanging the ending for the San Diego Sequence, an Homage to "King Kong" and maintaining the set for years to be utilized for other productions such as "Sliders" and a few others. The Main building of course still stands and was reused in JP3.

    2) The Main Theme from The Lost World to me always felt like an adventure but one of the reasons I felt was because of its minor key scale ascension that almost built up the scale as one walking towards something. Not very technical I'm afraid but it gives the impression.

    3) It may be worth mentioning that many references to the original JP themes were cut and the Theme from The Lost World was tracked into a few scenes to add to the sense of adventure. One such scene that you mention but didn't have the music used as intended was the finale to the film. The Triumphant Island Theme is utilized but was not written for that scene.

    4) You do later mention the tracking, but one thing I would say is that for the most part, editing was done with respect to the score.

    For example, since "The Round Up" scene was extended and restructured which would have created major problems trying to edit the cue Williams wrote for it. In its' stead, they used edits from many other tracks (I imagine due to William's unavailability). Also, the usage of the Lost World theme in the finale (Ludlow's Death) is in a way, a continuation of a tradition started in Jurassic Park of showing the T-Rex in a triumphant hero sort of light. In Jurassic Park, the Rex's appearance was rescored with tracked music to make it heroic in the same way.

    5) I would also mention that a lot of the 'motifs' are more percussive than melodic. For instance, each track seems to have a nearly unique percussion to it, with each instrument echoing the percussion at varying points.

    That's all I can think of now heh

    Great read!

  16. Love it! Makes me want to watch the movie again hehe

    some notes:

    1) The original Koepp script for TLW was almost identical to the novel except that it had to take into account Hammond being alive and a few other small details. It had Ian developing a group like in the novel and going to reconstruct his reputation. Hints of similar themes are used in the final script/film but his main motivation changes completely.

    The other major difference was Spielberg asked Koepp to write the script first rather than, like In Jurassic Park, having other hands (including Michael Crichton himself) have a go. Koepp had been the final writer of the script for JP (working from both Crichton's and another writers drafts) where as in The Lost World, Koepp never so much as phoned Crichton about it. They were developed separately. The evolution of the script to what we saw on the screen, however, I would argue, was mostly Speilberg who made a lot of interesting decisions during the production of the film.

    Despite having a massive budget, Spielberg didn't utilize a lot of it. Originally, New Zealand had been spotted for location filming but due to the expense was dropped and exchanged for locations in Northern California which, although they look great, came at a price--they were filming a "tropical island" in winter and many night scenes reveal puffs of "breath." The price of building a backlot "Workers Village" also must have changed his decision on building on the backlot, shrinking the town from being a massive pterosaur ending, to simply a walk though, exchanging the ending for the San Diego Sequence, an Homage to "King Kong" and maintaining the set for years to be utilized for other productions such as "Sliders" and a few others. The Main building of course still stands and was reused in JP3.

    2) The Main Theme from The Lost World to me always felt like an adventure but one of the reasons I felt was because of its minor key scale ascension that almost built up the scale as one walking towards something. Not very technical I'm afraid but it gives the impression.

    3) It may be worth mentioning that many references to the original JP themes were cut and the Theme from The Lost World was tracked into a few scenes to add to the sense of adventure. One such scene that you mention but didn't have the music used as intended was the finale to the film. The Triumphant Island Theme is utilized but was not written for that scene.

    4) You do later mention the tracking, but one thing I would say is that for the most part, editing was done with respect to the score.

    For example, since "The Round Up" scene was extended and restructured which would have created major problems trying to edit the cue Williams wrote for it. In its' stead, they used edits from many other tracks (I imagine due to William's unavailability). Also, the usage of the Lost World theme in the finale (Ludlow's Death) is in a way, a continuation of a tradition started in Jurassic Park of showing the T-Rex in a triumphant hero sort of light. In Jurassic Park, the Rex's appearance was rescored with tracked music to make it heroic in the same way.

    5) I would also mention that a lot of the 'motifs' are more percussive than melodic. For instance, each track seems to have a nearly unique percussion to it, with each instrument echoing the percussion at varying points.

    That's all I can think of now heh

    Great read!

  17. If it helps at all, i've made an edit before utilizing the scene from the Extras that shows most of that missing part of the sequence without dino sfx. There are slight other sfx, but you almost don't notice it. If you use that, plus a few rear channel rips, it's almost completely clean and IS completely listenable.

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