"We heard that word a lot,” explained McCann, "but to be fair, it was usually used by people from outside our team.
McCann and Hayes explain why Hooper's demand that all the singing be recorded live was widely deemed "impossible”. Gerard McCann was hired as Supervising Music Editor, and Simon Hayes went on to act as Production Sound Mixer ('recording engineer' to those in the music world). Tom Hooper had his first meetings with his sound and music teams in the autumn of 2011. Production Sound Mixer Simon Hayes, with some of the gear used on set to record the actors.
The word "impossible!” was exclaimed quite a few times but the crew made it possible, and Hooper's vision been vindicated by impressive box-office takings, critical praise and an Oscar for Best Sound Mixing. Fulfilling this brief embroiled the crew in a painstaking and lengthy process, during which they repeatedly reinvented the ways in which soundtracks for movies are recorded, edited and mixed. Russell Crowe has stated that "There's an emotional level to this that cannot be created in the studio,” while Amanda Seyfried has said "It is so much more powerful, you have complete freedom, complete control.” For the technical crew, however, the director's vision gave rise to innumerable practical problems that had never hitherto been solved in the history of film-making. Hooper's determination to record live and give the actors complete control over every creative expression, including the tempo in which they were singing, was hugely popular with the actors. I thought it was an amazing opportunity to do something genuinely groundbreaking.”ĭirector Tom Hooper (centre), with Daniel Huttlestone as Gavroche, on the set of Les Misérables. What will be exciting for the audience is that singing it live has such a profound effect on the power of realism of this story. As Hooper explained in a promotional interview: "You can tell in your bones that there's something false or unreal about people singing to playback. He took the role on one condition: all vocals in the completely sung-through musical would be recorded live on set.
When Tom Hooper was asked to direct Les Misérables in March 2011, the British film and TV director was riding high on the success of The King's Speech (2010). In his quest for authenticity, director Tom Hooper drove his Les Misérables technical crew to completely reinvent film soundtrack recording.
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