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Intrusive music in documentaries

When less is more

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Sir, – I am increasingly irritated by the fashionable mode in today’s documentary film-making to bring the background music to the foreground.

This development is to enhance the mood, usually with drawling, dreary, deep-sounding music.

Unfortunately, it drowns out what the narrators and participants are saying.

While I understand that this mode is here to stay, I would dearly love to hear the commentary and dialogue as well. – Yours, etc,

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MICHAEL ROONEY,

Knocknacarra,

Galway.