Picked up oscar nominated Sicrio for sound mixing from Tesco.
Sicario (2015)
Dolby Stereo TrueHD 7.1 (Atmos) Luasfilm Ltd THX Sound System / JBL professional
Dolby Stereo TrueHD 7.1 (Atmos)
dialnorm +4db
Running time 2:01:20
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/Full credits list
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/ful ... cl_sm#castOpening tensely building the drama up with bass sound with a drug bust.
Picture looks good so far as I'm more less studying the Dolby mix and picture.
ISO set at 400 to capture the detail of clouds in distance the actual picture is a shade brighter.
Picture spec details
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A bit of grim opening discovery.
Bomb booby-trap at 0:06:34s-47s kaBoom! That jolted me back in the rocker seat! Low is down to about 20Hz!
I like the tense uneasy score by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, its edgy at 0:24:15 slowly builds up with overhead view looking down over houses to a desert with helicopter panning over the surrounds to LCR isn't over loud it has nice balance.
Overall the LCRSS-SB and LFE.1 has good balance mix where dialouge track is common centre and would be cooler if used with GRAVITY dialouge panning would be 100%. Its still a tense mix some sound effects are panned or off-screen a window winding down or a dog barking panned about the 8 channels.
Benicio Del Toro, was in Traffic (2000) many years ago that had similar tone setting.
Second film I seen with Josh Brolin, in in last few weeks Everest (2015) must be a Josh Brolin, month? lol
Sooty (cat) laying on my lap was started by a car panning on right surround arrays with film played at soft fader level -12.4db on my reference Sony SDDS DFP-D3000, as I like to listen at softer level tonight.
Sooty, flinched and turned to the right looking slightly upwards at the JBL 8330 arrays. I think Sooty approves of the Dolby mix.
Vehicles passing over a speed-bump felt about 90% right expect for the physical feel of it as I know how the real thing jolts the body upwards a slight bit.
Nice creative sound mix for a film that I can relate to other than sci-fi as this subject matter deals with the real grim world of the drug underworld.
The siren sounds is many db down over the real thing that would be painfully distracting so I can tell the sirens are relaxed in the mix but has good detail in it.
The shootout on the motorway with civilians everywhere and shooting-down drug gangs is grimly and brutally bloody.
Weaponry sounds effects not over loud had good sounding mixing texture of frequency range.
I know its not like the real thing but given how far mixing has come the quality is good.
I can tell the film is not 35mm and the digital seems to have progressed over the years.