Quote for today "Overeducated and unemployable"

My Boss lent me a pile of Inspector Morse DVDs. I watched a couple of them today. Being the unconventional rebel that I am, I started at the beginning with the first episodes made. The episodes were made a while ago - sometime during the 80s I think.

This isn't a review or anything like that. But there was one think I noticed about these episodes - the high level of ambient noise. All kinds of noises going on in the background. The kind of noise that normally you only hear on very low budget films. I.e. ones that cannot afford proper sound editing facilities. In general films and TV from that period didn't have the cleanest sound but not to this degree.

There are two possibilities. 1 - that these shows were so poorly funded that they couldn't get any decent sound gear. 2 - that this was done deliberately. It was probably the first, but I hold out hope that it was the second. The reason is that the confused jumble of noise was rather effective in creating a disorienting state in my head when watching. It had the effect of moving me out of my comfortable DVD watching mode. This would make it innovative and a piece of lost genius. I do think it is a technique that perhaps could be used more often. Of course, the various film industries of the world shy away from disorienting and intense these days - they require too much thinking.

So cheap or innovative? It may be important. Or not.