- Voices in the other rooms
- Screams
- Footsteps
- Room noise
- Shuffling of paper
- Falling to the floor
- Bed's springs
- Mattress
- Wardrobe being opened and closed
- Someone being dragged out
- Door opening and closing
- Boot shuffling and falling to the floor
- Gasps
- Grunts
- Wind sound outside
- The whole dialogue, synchronised with the actors' mouths
We went to the library to record the footsteps because the parquet flooring there is ideal, but the time constraints did not allow us to do it properly so we ended up having to film the steps on top of a wooden table in the Lodge, not very successfully. For the screams and extra sounds coming from the other rooms in the hostel, we contacted some new faces who managed to transmit what we asked them to. I was in charge of the recording machine and the microphone all the time, as I took the initiative from the start so I was who best knew how to use it. All the sounds were recorded with more or less accomplishment after two weeks of getting them and perfecting them in order to get the closest to what we aimed at. The most difficult part was probably the dialogue, in particular when Callum kneels down and tells Louisa to hide. We can see his lips moving so we had to watch the video while recording the sound trying to emulate the actions. I must say however, that I am surprised at how quickly the actors understood and dominated the task. Louisa was perfect in her continuous cries and sighs which varied slightly according to the position of her shoulders or how she shuffled under the bed. She was also able to perform a very realistic scream when her fictional boyfriend gets killed. Bravo!
Now it is down to us again to match all the sounds to the action in the editing process.
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