Watched A Feast for Crows with the GoT Soundtrack. I think you nailed the narrative as far as it was possible and i thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
Your re-iterations for the soundtrack were well and almost fitting perfectly with the exception of the red wedding. In particular i wondered if it would be possible to let Serj Tankians masterpiece of Rains of Castemere play out fully, because the transition at 2:51:07 felt weird. Also i think the first vocal at 2:49:35 isn’t necessary, only the instrumental of that. Serjs vocal would hit even harder and deeper, in my opinion.But to choose Serjs iteration is just a brilliant idea!
Technical wise: I would loved to have a 5.1 surround or 3.0 track not a stereo. Because sometimes your music iterations swallow up the dialogue and i think this could be fixed with a center channel on its own. But i don’t know how you timeline looks like, perhaps an volume adjustment on the music would be suffice.
Other than that, i really don’t have anything to say but praises 😃 Thank you!
Thank you and thank you.
As for the Red Wedding bit, I can definitely smooth that out. I did find it to work for me, but that does not mean that I can approach it in a way less discoherent as it sounded for you and therefore also possibly others. I will do a tweak update to this, and re-release as a fix. Thank you for pointing that out. And I am very glad you liked the Lannister Theme in all its glory for that scene! I found it to really hit the heart strings.
As for sound - well, that’s always a hard one. You see - I play all my edits through my own 9.1 Atmos Soundbar, in which both Stereo Mode and 9.1 mode works brilliantly and dialogue and music worked very well for me. The same on my Surround Sound on my editing laptop. But! That does not mean that other sound systems and computers have the same balance or performance or even optimization as my systems do, and therefore this one is always a little tricky.
But! When i do re-release with the musical alteration to said bit, I will do something that has worked before - I can up the center channel (dialogue) with a slight adjustment to put it a little bit more above the rest. That should solve some of the problem. The second bit I will do, is add a “Surround” element to the entire Master Audio. I did this for my Hobbit edit, and it worked for most like a charm. It also improves audio quality.
I will do this for Film V as well (as I just did it for Film IV).
As for why I haven’t done 5.1 releases yet is simply because of the added work it will take me. Because of new SFX and music for several scenes, adjusting all of them to a 5.1 surround that flows balanced and fluently is hard. I do hope that when I have done all the GoT edits, I might go in and bother to do the work for the 5.1.