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okay... this is what it says on the Official Site, and in the CD . I took this to mean that they were constantly recording, but that they were also always lipsynching...
Eliza, do you interpret differently?
"Shooting any music-driven movie involves a great number of challenges, but filming Phantom was even more demanding than the average musical. As Wright explains, "On every other musical movie I've made, you rehearse, then pre-record the whole soundtrack and shoot from there. What we did with Phantom was stay just one step ahead of the shooting schedule, so that the playback tracks could accommodate performances that were growing and developing during rehearsal."
This recording and re-recording process was continuous; a recording studio was even set up in Lloyd Webber's office at Pinewood Studios, whereby actors could, at any time, be whisked away to record a new vocal and the playback track be altered for the next scene. It was a totally organic process for the actors and the music team alike – but this didn't come without its difficulties. "When we started production, we were three weeks ahead of schedule, but by the end, we were three hours ahead of what was being shot!" Wright says. "It would be six in the morning and we would be pre-mixing something that was going to be shot at nine."
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