Post-Production Audio

Here is how this works in practice. We give complete post-prod audio services through Reykjavík-based facilities and editors who know the material an Icelandic shoot produces. Dialogue recorded against wind, waterfall spray and Highland weather often needs careful editing and cleanup, and our watching sound editors plan that work from the location sound reports forward. We deliver dialogue editing, ADR recording and oversight, sound design, Foley, and final mixing in calibrated rooms to theatrical, broadcast and streaming specs.

Here is the short of it. Our teams build the atmospheric sound an Icelandic story needs — wind, water, geothermal activity, the specific quiet of a subarctic landscape — and design effects that match the scale of the visuals. We set up ADR with talent whether they are in Reykjavík or recording remotely from the UK and mainland Europe, manage timecode and metadata scene matching from production through to mix, and deliver in each common format with stems and deliverables prepared for distribution.

From a single documentary mix to a full feature sound finish, we scale the team to the project and work closely with the production sound crew who captured the first material.

Here is the breakdown. Reykjavík, the world's northernmost capital, anchors Iceland's post-prod base — a small but highly skilled industry that has finished work for global shoots and for Icelandic cinema from Baltasar Kormákur to Hlynur Pálmason's 'Godland' and Grímur Hákonarson's 'Rams'. Because the country filming is overwhelmingly location-based, in conditions that test production sound, strong post-prod audio is often where a soundtrack is truly resolved. The country's facilities run on close to 100 per cent renewable electricity from geothermal and hydroelectric power, and English is near-universally spoken.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. This makes joint work with global shoots straightforward. Eligible post-prod spend on Icelandic audio work can count toward the country's production reimbursement of 25 per cent, rising to 35 per cent for qualifying larger projects and TV series meeting spend and length criteria, administered by Film in the country, and we help shoots scope post-audio budgets with that in mind.