Editing Audio mixing (section)

=== Dialogue intelligibility ===
Since the 2010s, critics and members of the audience have reported that dialogue in films tends to be increasingly more difficult to understand than in older films, to the point where viewers need to rely on [[subtitles]] to understand what is being said. Ben Pearson of ''[[SlashFilm]]'' attributed this to a combination of factors, only some of which can be addressed through audio mixing:<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pearson|first=Ben|date=2021-11-30|title=Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-has-gotten-more-difficult-to-understand-and-three-ways-to-fix-it/|access-date=2021-12-06|website=SlashFilm.com|language=en-US}}</ref>

* Unintelligibility as a stylistic choice by filmmakers, particularly by [[Christopher Nolan]] and those influenced by him
* Soft, under one's breath delivery of lines by actors, a practice particularly popular among younger actors, as opposed to the theatrical clarity of delivery previously used
* Low priority of sound recording on set, with priority given to the visual aspects of production
* Increased technological possibilities, including in post-production, no longer compel filmmakers to obtain an optimal recording on set
* The film crew's familiarity with the dialogue can lead them to overestimate its intelligibility
* Theaters play films at a lower than recommended volume to avoid excessive loudness complaints from the audience
* Different standards of compression and volume balance applied by the various [[List of streaming media services|streaming platforms]]
* Inadequate audio remixing for films played in a [[Home cinema|home theater]] setting or on mobile devices, where the audio playback capabilities of the various setups strongly differ from each other and from cinema settings
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