{"id":1584,"date":"2012-12-02T17:23:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2012-12-02T17:23:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T21:23:47","slug":"wobble-through-les-miserables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"Wobble through Les Miserables!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small collection of clips from the upcoming musical film <em>Les Miserables<\/em> were uploaded to YouTube a couple days ago.  For example, this one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8WSysB5vKM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>Musically, sounds good.  The singing sounds good, save for Amanda Seyfried as Cosette, who&#8217;s rapid vibrato makes it sound like she&#8217;s singing while driving over a bumpy road.  I&#8217;m not sure the &#8220;live singing&#8221; adds anything spectacular, at least not in these brief clips, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t take anything away.<\/p>\n<p>Camera-work wise, <em><strong>GAH!!<\/strong><\/em>  I don&#8217;t mind the close-ups and the wide-angles, which I think will look awesome on the big screen, but why the wobbly handheld look?  Is this a home-made movie?  Is this a British TV show?  Why can&#8217;t the English learn to hold a camera steady?<\/p>\n<p>The worst example is in this clip, at about 35 seconds:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xx7K42uyrts?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes, let&#8217;s glance down at the letters and then back up at his face&#8230;?  Very unprofessional looking.  It makes me, as an audience member, feel like I&#8217;m not there, like elements of the scene are being concealed from me, like I&#8217;m being forced to watch something through the eyes of a tipsy drunken man.  Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small collection of clips from the upcoming musical film Les Miserables were uploaded to YouTube a couple days ago. For example, this one: My thoughts: Musically, sounds good. The singing sounds good, save for Amanda Seyfried as Cosette, who&#8217;s rapid vibrato makes it sound like she&#8217;s singing while driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[99],"tags":[523],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-py","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}