Richard Farrar's Blog

Life is not always as it seems, and this is particularly true in the world of film and television. Whilst we’re all used to the computerised visual effects used in modern films, we are probably not as aware of the level of special effects used in the film’s soundtrack.

Any modern blockbuster film will invariably be liberally splattered with awesome special visual effects (CGI). We’ve come to expect it. However, while our eyes are being bombarded with spectacular visual sequences our ears are also being attacked with a host of auditory stimuli to trick us into believing what we see is real.

The audio production of a film never attracts the same kudos as the visual effects. Yet, get it wrong and the visual sequence just won’t have the same impact. Get it right however and you’re transported into a different world completely. It’s all smoke and mirrors!

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“To blog, or not to blog, that is the question“, or that was the question, and one that I’ve now clearly answered after much deliberation, but How and Why?

How?

This was the easy one. After a general trawl around the web and much Stumbling, it became plainly apparent that the blogging platform of choice was WordPress.

I already had my own domain (www.richardfarrar.com), which I’d had for quite a while, however this was presently being hosted on a Windows server running ASP scripting (WordPress requires PHP scripting and a MySQL database). So…

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