Silent Movie

We have now recommenced postproduction, with a new sound team, after 18 months of delays and general silliness. (Certain people have pins in their voodoo dolls, shall we say.) This is in itself a minor miracle, as I had been feeling that the film would either not be finished at all, or would emerge as a posthumous work. It looked at one point like we had a silent film on our hands, as all our Avid sound files have disappeared from the drive, which is very strange. The audio risked being lost from the onlined version of the film altogether, but we noticed in that the drive also contained an AAF file, which saved the day. This is an occupational hazard when you have such a long gap between the online and the sound design and mix. I must write a book about how not to put together a workflow... The upshot of this is that we will be spending the next few months on the sound, possibly getting the actors in to do some ADR, and then we will HAVE FINISHED THE FILM. (Cue cheering, clapping, general delirium and heavy drinking.)