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32 PRODUCTION SOUND & VIDEO – Spring 2023 If there was a problem, you'd have to try to get Baz's attention. Baz's assistant would always find it entertaining when I'd come up and want to talk to Baz, because you have to duck and weave and wedge your way in between his thought patterns. Otherwise, he doesn't see you, he might be looking right at you, but he won't connect. But if you can duck in between a thought pattern and get your request in, he'll go, "Yes, I understand David, totally. Just let me get this one and we'll do another one for you. "He is quite amazing; his focus is solid, he knows stuff down the track that you're not aware of. He's got three or four cameras on stuff and so sometimes even the cameras or lights and boom operators are in shot. Baz keeps on rolling. 'Okay, do it again, roll it again.' He doesn't cut the camera until finally, 'Okay, got that, we're moving on.' It's about the big performances, it's just fantastic. "One thing that always sticks with me is when we arrived to do the sound testing. We did all the technical stuff and got ready, and then a couple days into it, we had earwigs to test. Austin was in for some costume tests and then we did the whole thing; we did playback, we had our Elvis in front of us for the first time. That was mind-blowing, how dynamic, the energy that he had just on that rehearsal, dressed as Elvis was extraordinary. Once we cut, everybody just went, OH, and broke out in applause!" Elvis was released in the United States on June 24, 2022, and to date has grossed $287 million worldwide. The film won "Best Sound" at the AACTA Awards (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) for Andy Nelson, Wayne Pashley, Michael Keller, and David Lee.