Music and Sound Effects for My Dinosaur Movie?

Question

Guys, What if Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Mark Mancina and James Horner compose the music for my dinosaur movie, Dinosaurs: An Epic Prehistoric Tale? What if the music for my dinosaur movie may sound like and similar to the music of The Lion King, The Power of One, Disney’s Dinosaur, Disney’s Tarzan, The Jurassic Park Films, Disney’s Mighty Joe Young, Waterworld, The Lord of the Rings films and The Rescuers Down Under? What if Sound Designers Randy Thom, Christopher Boyes, Ethan Van Der Ryn, David Farmer, Tom Myers, and Matthew Wood and their team of sound effects people will set out to create dinosaur sounds by mixing together numerous different animal vocalizations to make the audience feel as though giant bellowing prehistoric beasts surrounded them? What if my movie is mixed at Skywalker Sound and Park Road Post in Dolby Digital Surround EX, DTS ES and SDDS Sound? How would the sound work in my movie be a milestone in terms of innovation in sound effects? Well, Tell me.

Answer 1

get a life

Answer 2

Growing up in an era of monophonic playback, I found stereo to be an improvement. Certainly not the end-all, be-all answer to audio, but an improvemnt. Going through the quadraphonic phase in the early 1970's, it was interesting, but not really worth the extra expense and hassle. I created my own simulated 4-channel audio system by simply installing a large-value capacitor between each rear speaker and its return line to create a phase delay from the front speakers. And that's all that directional sound is, anyway, phase delay between each ear. 5.1, or surround sound, is also interesting. Some improvement, but not really worth the extra expense. I haven't even bothered with the 7.1 concept. In basic, I might agree with you except that I do find some enjoyment in the multi-channel schemes. Sure, you do have to be in a relatively (not rigidly) fixed position to get the full benefit. Just like you want to be in the center of the concert hall to get the full benefit of the orchestra, not just at one side. But if you're just ranting about the uneducated audio geeks who think more money and newest gadgetry is the ultimate answer to all audio, then I do agree with you. But ranting about geeks is pointless as they're convinced of their opinions, regardless of factual basis, and nobody else really cares what they think. (Except for manufacturers who will continue to make money from their pseudo-knowledge.)