Before the main shoot at Harlaxton manor, we went to have a look at the area, to see what the challenges would be for recording audio in that space, we discovered that some of the rooms echoed quite a lot and had loud squeaky floors, to counter this as much as possible we aim to use close proximity radio microphones to try and isolate good quality dialogue from the actors. Another issue is that the actors need to dance to music to maintain the correct timing in dance scenes, so we will have to create the sound of footsteps through foley instead of on location.
We decided it would be good to record the sound of the reverb in the rooms by clapping so we could replicate it in the studio and make sure that any sounds we recorded sank into the scenes well.