Why didn't my audio record?

As I was shooting the talking head scene, the microphone was plugged into the camera and the camera was on. It has recently come to my attention that my audio didn't record and the sound over all of the scenes was white noise. The on-cam mic that I used was called "RODE VideoMic Pro-R Microphone". Me and my assistant director (Lily James)couldn't pin point what had gone wrong. 

We first:
  • Looked through the audio settings on the camera
  • Booked out exact copy of the microphone, recorded  another video and played it back.
It turns out that the Mic that we booked out in the first place was 
broken due to damage or breakage. We first knew that it had broke due to the fact that the "ON" button was missing even though when we plugged it in it was green. 

What am I going to do about it?
I will have to re-record my footage with the same actors. I was initially thinking about dubbing the audio, but I couldn't do that due to it looking slightly unnatural. I think the best option is to re-shoot the scenes with the same/similar actors. In the mean time, I can improve my script a little and make alterations to make it slightly better. I was also considering to make it a silent film and include subtitles yet that would take away from the typical mockumentary style of filming and would take a lot of the humour out.    




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