Singers on the Oscars

[A Director]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 1:41am

Pink's version of Over The Rainbow was moving and beautiful. Bette Middler was wonderful and classy.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 1:47am

Yup. FYI, if you go to the "off topic" board, you can join the threads in which we're already discussing this stuff. Although by now everyone might be Oscar'd out.

[amoni]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 7:19am

Why the hell was the orchestra blocks away in the Capitol Record building? Besides having the ugliest set in Oscar history consisting on huge gold lights or blow up Oscars, there was plenty of room on that stage to hold it. Shameful.

[oasisjeff]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:13am

They haven't been in the building for a few years now... at least. Obviously, they don't want to use the pit, but since the location of the orchestra really doesn't impact me, I never investigated the reasoning further.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 3/3/14 at 11:39am

Early on in Bette's "Wind Beneath My Wings," I thought I noticed that the sound and the visual were slightly off-sync. Did anyone think she lip-synced in whole or part? After that initial odd moment, all seemed normal.

[jiff]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 5:28pm

Maybe people have already discussed this, but didn't Gabourey say "Fools" instead of "Pools" during her presentation. I can't remember her exact words, but it was something like 'fools of people...?

[HorseTears]

Posted: 3/9/14 at 8:30pm

Re: the orchestra's off-site location, from a very interesting The Verge article on all the behind-the-scenes prep for this year's broadcast:

"One new twist this year is that some of the film clips themselves will be played back live in the auditorium in 5.1 — so those surround microphones can pick up the echo of Sandra Bullock’s panicked breathing in Gravity just like the Oscar attendees will hear it. The live orchestra, on the other hand, receives a slightly different treatment: the musicians are actually playing in a studio 10 blocks away at the Capitol Records building, with their audio piped over to the broadcast trucks for integration into the production and the broadcast. According to this year’s Oscars sound team, it’s all about clarity and control: the ability to get pristine audio of the orchestra without the compromises that recording them live in the theater would require."


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