@slimfern posted:Yeah see, when he said 'I'm 28' I thought.....oooh you little liar
I know for obvious film purposes he was telling the truth
The film was an early film from the director Terence Fisher who is best known for the director of the main Hammer horror films 
night EL moonsiee Slim
Good morning everyone it's a cloudy dry day today definitely slightly colder.
Enjoy your day everyone 
@slimfern posted:One of the most beautiful pieces of music I know...it was played at my Mother's funeral and always played on Remembrance Sunday
As you say, a beautiful piece of music. Elgar's "Variations on an Original Theme" (generally referred to as the "Enigma Variations" is one of the mysteries of classical music which is why it's referred to as Enigma. What exactly is the theme? It's thought that it's a counterpoint to a popular theme but although people have come up with possibilities, it's not known what Elgar had in mind.
Interesting Wiki article on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Variations
@El Loro posted:As you say, a beautiful piece of music. Elgar's "Variations on an Original Theme" (generally referred to as the "Enigma Variations" is one of the mysteries of classical music which is why it's referred to as Enigma. What exactly is the theme? It's thought that it's a counterpoint to a popular theme but although people have come up with possibilities, it's not known what Elgar had in mind.
Interesting Wiki article on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Variations
With music being subjective I think all pieces are an enigma....even when the composer has a theme, we will always listen to it and make it fit with how we are thinking/feeling....it is never exactly in the thought of how it was composed. Obviously some more so than others. Does that make sense? 
@slimfern posted:With music being subjective I think all pieces are an enigma....even when the composer has a theme, we will always listen to it and make it fit with how we are thinking/feeling....it is never exactly in the thought of how it was composed. Obviously some more so than others. Does that make sense?
Makes sense though some music will make the listener react in the way the composer intended and some will depend on how the listener reacts.
@El Loro posted:Makes sense though some music will make the listener react in the way the composer intended and some will depend on how the listener reacts.
For instance with film music, the top directors will work with a composer to create a score which will affect viewers in the way the director/composer wants them to.
@El Loro posted:For instance with film music, the top directors will work with a composer to create a score which will affect viewers in the way the director/composer wants them to.
True...
When words or visuals are added it makes a piece of music become more like how it was composed.
This piece is one of those that even without words one can tell what it is saying
@El Loro posted:Saint-SaÃŦns' Carnival of the Animals:
The best known part is at 8 minutes 40 seconds (the Aquarium).
thank you EL -love this -I had to listen to parts of this in junior school-and write down my thoughts as I listened to it
@El Loro posted:
aww lovely EL have sung this with choir 1 -love it.
We cannot meet to sing yet with choir 1 yet because we are not allowed to practice in the church. I do go to practice choir 2 but we have to sing with masks on - I bought a singing mask which works ok
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@slimfern posted:One of the most beautiful pieces of music I know...it was played at my Mother's funeral and always played on Remembrance Sunday
love this slim absolutely gorgeous
night EL moonsieee Slim
Good morning everyone it's a similar day to yesterday cloudy dry and cold. I think it's going to be like that all week.
Enjoy your day everyone
Research in to using subtitles when watching programmes has some surprising results. Whereas 23% of people in the 56-75 age bracket watch using subtitles, in the 18-24 age bracket that rises to 80%:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-59259964
@El Loro posted:Research in to using subtitles when watching programmes has some surprising results. Whereas 23% of people in the 56-75 age bracket watch using subtitles, in the 18-24 age bracket that rises to 80%:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ent...inment-arts-59259964
This wouldn't surprise me so much if the subtitles were in 'text speak'.
Do you think it's because they don't know how to turn the subtitles off 
@El Loro posted:
My Dad has the voiceover on his telly, where he can...something he got used to from when my Mother used it because of her not being able to see....I find it really annoying, but understand his liking for it.
I kind of fall into the former age group for using subtitles....I don't use them though...not so much because I don't need them, but because more often than not the actions on the tv move quicker than the subtitles appear ....I'm not beyond being confused easily 
@slimfern posted:
My Dad has the voiceover on his telly, where he can...something he got used to from when my Mother used it because of her not being able to see....I find it really annoying, but understand his liking for it.
I kind of fall into the former age group for using subtitles....I don't use them though...not so much because I don't need them, but because more often than not the actions on the tv move quicker than the subtitles appear ....I'm not beyond being confused easily
The speed of the subtitling will be slower on live programmes compared to recorded programmes as the subtitler is having to catch up when it's live.
My next door neighbour is elderly and has her television on at varying volumes which can be low, loud or loud enough for me to be able to hear throughout my house (semi-detached), So if I watch television I have to put in ear plugs to lessen the sound from her television and watch using subtitles. Recorded programmes don't always have subtitles and there was a film which did but for some reason there was a gap of several minutes between the film and the subtitles.
The neighbour uses television as her only activity. She has one upstairs and one downstairs. She can have the television on virtually the whole time from when she wakes up to when she goes to sleep. As she is totally reliant on that, I don't have words with her about the volume. I think she can't tell the difference in the volume.
At present her television is relatively quiet, it won't stay like that.
@El Loro posted:The speed of the subtitling will be slower on live programmes compared to recorded programmes as the subtitler is having to catch up when it's live.
My next door neighbour is elderly and has her television on at varying volumes which can be low, loud or loud enough for me to be able to hear throughout my house (semi-detached), So if I watch television I have to put in ear plugs to lessen the sound from her television and watch using subtitles. Recorded programmes don't always have subtitles and there was a film which did but for some reason there was a gap of several minutes between the film and the subtitles.
The neighbour uses television as her only activity. She has one upstairs and one downstairs. She can have the television on virtually the whole time from when she wakes up to when she goes to sleep. As she is totally reliant on that, I don't have words with her about the volume. I think she can't tell the difference in the volume.At present her television is relatively quiet, it won't stay like that.
Shhhh...don't tempt fate
Do you have an aux socket in the back of your telly, to plug your headphones into ? That's what I do if I watch the telly in my room at Dad's after he has gone to bed
@slimfern posted:Shhhh...don't tempt fate
Do you have an aux socket in the back of your telly, to plug your headphones into ? That's what I do if I watch the telly in my room at Dad's after he has gone to bed
I do, but her television can be so loud that I can here it even with headphones on (those are headphones with a noise reducer so like those people use on planes).
By the way, I have offered help to her over the years but she refuses to accept any. Tends not to open her door to people who knock (possibly as she just puts on a dressing gown over her bed clothes rather than get dressed)
She does accept help from the man who lives opposite who is a paramedic so there is some support.
@El Loro posted:I do, but her television can be so loud that I can here it even with headphones on (those are headphones with a noise reducer so like those people use on planes).
By the way, I have offered help to her over the years but she refuses to accept any. Tends not to open her door to people who knock (possibly as she just puts on a dressing gown over her bed clothes rather than get dressed)
She does accept help from the man who lives opposite who is a paramedic so there is some support.
Blimey she must have it loud 
That's sad that she lives like that ..I suspect the telly is her companion 
As you say , at least she has some support from your neighbour opposite 
