The Sounds of Things to Come

December 27, 2014 12:09 PM

Sound of Cinema - British Sci-Fi from the BFI Days of Fear and Wonder - BBC Radio 3 talks to film composer Stephen Price about The Shape of Things to Come, Alien, Gravity, and other science fiction soundtracks.
posted by Artw (6 comments total)

"BBC iPlayer streaming content offers a superior picture and sound quality. This requires you to have the latest version of Flash..."

Aargh.
posted by Twang at 3:12 PM on December 27, 2014

iTunes link, if that helps. Also it seems to play as HTML5 in mobile.
posted by Artw at 3:16 PM on December 27, 2014

Oh, that's a terrible movie.
posted by Artw at 2:43 PM on December 28, 2014

BBC iPlayer streaming content offers a superior picture and sound quality. This requires you to have the latest version of Flash...

It can be good, but at times, it's horrible. Pausing and failing multiple times. This may be a network issue, but nonetheless, it does not compare to Netflix for example.
I wonder what the current state of their support for HTML5 is.
posted by juiceCake at 5:59 PM on December 28, 2014

A few mins in and this definitly adds evidence to my theory there's a reference to the daleks in the Fury soundtrack
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 7:50 AM on December 29, 2014

It can be good, but at times, it's horrible. Pausing and failing multiple times.

It's a damn sight better than the ITV / Channel 4 ones which are basically unusable for me... The only times I've ever had any real problems with it are watching something very popular (like Dr Who) live when it can get a bit pausey... and I find you can get around that by watching it on a few mins delay.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 7:54 AM on December 29, 2014