Xavania Original · Limited Series

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An editor finds a murder hidden between two frames.

A post-production assistant on a prestige film discovers eleven frames that were never shot, and everyone who has seen them is gone.

Cast & digital humans

Ines Okonkwo
Lead
@ines-oko

On screen: assistant editor at the bench

Voice print: quiet tenor, close and dry

SoulPrint Pro · face, eyes, hair, hands, wardrobe and voice locked across every take

Nadia Halvard
Supporting
@nadia-hal

On screen: post supervisor at the door

Voice print: hard alto

SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free

Odile Bell
Supporting
@odile-bel

On screen: voice on the desk phone

Voice print: telephone-band

SoulPrint Pro · face, wardrobe and voice print locked; blocking free

Sound design — every person, action and object

Dialogue & voice
  • Ines Okonkwo — Eleven frames that were never shot.
    Cardioid at 25cm, -23 LUFS
  • Nadia Halvard — Delete them and go home.
    Corridor boom, door-frame IR
Foley — frame-matched to the render
Frames
Film handling — perforations against the fingertip, one tick per frame
Loupe
Glass set on the bench with a light metal ring
Film bin
Linen bag rustle with a trim drop
Scrub wheel
Jog-wheel detent with a mechanical bearing hum
Desk phone
Bell strike with a real hammer double-hit
Ambience beds
  • • Edit bay, near-anechoic
  • • Machine room through the wall
  • • Corridor beyond a heavy door
  • • Fluorescent flicker at the desk
Score

A single sustained string cluster that gains one voice per frame discovered

Mix
  • • 5.1 and binaural stereo folds rendered from one bed
  • • Dialogue -23 LUFS, trailer master -14 LUFS, true peak -1 dBTP
  • • Every element is placed from its on-screen position and tracked as the camera moves
  • • When the eleven frames play, all room tone is cut to digital silence — the loudest thing in the film
  • • No library loops on visible actions — each hit is cut to the frame it happens on

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