The Making of Australia - News Item
Posted on 9th January 2009AudioTechnology Magazine - Issue 65
With a $150m budget, a cast featuring a who’s who of Australian actors, and three local post houses getting in on the act, Baz Luhrmann’s film, Australia, is officially the most expensive and biggest Australian film to date. But more money doesn’t necessarily mean more time, as the country’s post-production industry found out – buzzing with Baz and ‘chasing the cut’ every step of the way.
“The real act of making the movie happens when you bring together all those disparate pieces – the film, how you will use music, the sound, how you will structure it and how you will restructure it,” said Luhrmann.
Australia’s biggest movie to date had the country’s postproduction industry buzzing with Baz and chasing the cut. Stephen Bruel reports on the epic effort of three local post houses.
