![]() More than this, it only really works in the immersive chase sequences and horror scenes. But it’s not a one-size-fits-all thing: it’s hard to see how a binaural mix could work for a dialogue-heavy episode like, say, The Zygon Inversion – although for something like series 4’s Midnight, all spooky voices and door-banging, it would probably be brilliant. The effect of having things jump in your ear is surprising and a little frightening at first. Knock Knock is one of those stories where this sort of approach works very well, because it’s a story about noise where there shouldn’t be any. Shireen (Mandeep Dhillon), Bill (Pearl Mackie), The Doctor (Peter Capaldi), Paul (Ben Presley) (Picture: BBC/BBC Worldwide – Photographer: Simon Ridgway) So what’s the verdict? We have had no rain in days and I know the storm is coming from the PC, not from outside my window, but my brain is telling me otherwise. I even catch myself glancing up at the loft hatch.Ģ2:40 – Felicity is outside in the lightning storm, but it sounds like it’s coming from outside the house. This scene was available as a preview clip and it’s easy to see why. I consider turning the lights back on.Ģ0:21 – Ah. ![]() It helps (or perhaps it doesn’t) that I’ve seen the episode already how would the experience be different were I watching it for the first time?ġ2:17 – Bill’s opened the kitchen door and the Doctor was inside and I swear that pot clattered RIGHT ACROSS THE ROOM. I keep listening out for the bits that are panning so I’m really not concentrating on anything the characters are saying. ![]() Shireen (Mandeep Dhillon), Paul (Ben Presley), The Landlord (David Suchet), Bill (Pearl Mackie), Harry (Colin Ryan) (Picture: BBC)Ġ8:00 – This is, to be honest, a bit of a distraction. Is everyone else watching it at the same time? For the benefit of the techie buffs amongst you, I’m watching this on a desktop PC through the headphone socket of my ageing Logitech speakers, which still work as well as they did twelve years ago.Ġ0:00 – This is going to be great. It’s Saturday evening. The kids are in bed, I’ve unplugged the phone and borrowed my eight-year-old’s headphones. So much for the theory – but how does it work in practice? Your brain then decodes this information to work out whereabouts the sound was coming from – your left, right, above or below you, or somewhere else.Īccording to Frank Melchior, Lead Technologist for the BBC Research and Development team who worked on the episode, the process they use “artificially mimic the subtle effect the shape of the viewer’s head and ears have on what they hear.” The actual filming and recording process is supposedly much the same as it usually is – with all the mixing down happening in post-production. ![]() And if you hear a sound it will most likely register in both, but you might hear it slightly later in one ear than in the other. ‘It’s just natural hearing – that’s how we hear where sounds are coming from.’ ‘We hear binaural sound all the time,’ explains BBC scientist Chris Pike. Pavel (Bart Suavek) (Picture: BBC/BBC Worldwide – Photographer: Simon Ridgway) What is binaural sound and how does it work? ![]()
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