This post comes out of a discussion with fellow syncers over at The Synchronicity Arkive. Link: http://www.synchronicityarkive.com/forum

Some folks seem to hold the classic sync of Pink Floyd's song Echoes to 2001: A Space Odyssey as the Gold Standard of all deliberate syncs.

The main reason for this is that the sync starts with the words "Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite" and the sync runs to the end of the film i.e. to the beginning of the credits; thus, the timing of the sync i.e. one white lettered intertitle to the next white titles (end titles) gives this additional credibility.

According to some syncers, the sync should be set up so that the words "Jupiter and Beyond The Infinite" appear just as the third 'ping' is heard at the beginning of the song. The idea being that it works best that way and the third ping works much like the third MGM lion's roar at the start of DSotM to the beginning of The Wizard of Oz ... a way of getting the sync right. This, of course, messes with the theory above as it no longer goes from title to title but there you have it.

I commented on the forum that the sync was a fine one. Certainly the music has a nice 'spacey' quality to it and the first group of lyrics works well with the action on screen. Certainly:

And something stirs and something tries
And starts to climb towards the light

Works really well with the bright lights appearing as Dave starts his voyage past the walls of light.

However, I mentioned that the last two sets of lyrics didn't work well at all. Such as:

Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Comes streaming in on sunlight wings

Doesn't work at all with Older Dave walking back to his dinner and sitting down.

Well I got at least a few posts coming back saying that it did work well and I got the sense that some felt that I was chipping away at the Great Pyramid.

Can't help that. I think it's more important to get syncers thinking outside their comfort level.

With that in mind, I thought I would offer up another deliberate Echoes sync. The point is not to minimize the classic Echoes sync but to expand on it.

Naturally, the lyrics fit well with the action on screen, but the link to the title: Echoes is there too.

First with Snow White singing:

Make a wish into to well, that's all you have to do
And if you hear it echoing, your wish will soon come true

With that her words echo back from within the wishing well.

Another series of echoes comes with the seven dwarfs singing in the mine, listening to their echo coming back from within the mine.


Hope you enjoy it!