I'm often curious about the audio approach used in a bunch of 1960s films where multiple people are talking over each other. It's very deliberate, but I don't know the terminology. The Graduate is an example, I think in the party scenes near the beginning. In that example, it seems intended to convey the feeling of being overwhelmed. But there are films and TV where it's less about being overwhelmed and more about an immersive experience, to conjour a bustling environment like being at a busy family meal. I think M * A * S * H did it occasionally in the surgery scenes.
I always find it very noticeable when it I see it. There's something jarring about it, the experience is somehow very different from a real multiparty conversation, possibly because it's impossible (for me) to focus my attention on any one speaker. That may be deliberate, of course, although often these scenes include key information in the overlapping dialogues.
I always find it very noticeable when it I see it. There's something jarring about it, the experience is somehow very different from a real multiparty conversation, possibly because it's impossible (for me) to focus my attention on any one speaker. That may be deliberate, of course, although often these scenes include key information in the overlapping dialogues.
It's a technique I never see in modern film/TV.