Jussi is a very talented guy. He was the Sound Supervisor on the Sam Raimi movie I mixed: "Drag Me to Hell".Guilty as charged, Mr. Angel. We did hire a post audio expert. And an editor, too. Oh, and a colorist.
As it happens, the man we hired for our audio work—Jussi Tegelman—gets my highest possible recommendation as a talent, as a professional, and as a human being. What an amazing person he is! I consider it a signal privilege to have had him on our post team and you may be certain that we will do everything in our power to work with him again on our next film, as well. (We start production in a little over a month.)
Like it or not, some locations are just too noisy to capture pristine location dialog. In those situations, you have three choices: 1) Get a different location (which likely conveys another set of compromises), 2) do ADR (which I utterly loathe and will not do except under the most extraordinary circumstances), or 3) do the best you can under the circumstances and then do some post processing. We opted for the latter. And, just for the record, the vast majority of the time Jussi worked with us was on Foley and the final stereo mix.
And you know what? It sounds really good.
Stephen
