For reasons which are beyond explanation we started the final night of the mix on Friday night at 10.30 pm. I have just returned home with the mix (and therefore the movie) complete at 2.30 am on Sunday morning – 28 hours after we started! As I left the mixing stage in Burbank it all seemed too good to be true: I can finally take break till Monday morning when I start my next job, a commercial.
When I first started on the movie all we had was a script: an 11”x 8”x 1” package that weighed about two pounds. At its height the movie employed about 80 people, had around 300 extras on set and involved the daily movement of maybe 20 vehicles and tons of equipment. By tomorrow night, when it’s all assembled, the movie will be contained in a tape box a little narrower, deeper and longer than the original script but about the same weight. And that’s in a way what this has all been about – turning words into pictures, turning paper into video-tape. But what a wonderful experience it has been and I have completed a piece of work of which I am truthfully proud. I hope it makes you laugh…