Almost nothing you hear in a finished film was recorded when the picture was shot. A soundtrack is six separate layers built by different people for different reasons, and the craft is in making them sound like one place.
A finished film soundtrack sounds like a recording of a place where things happened. It is almost never that. It is a construction — six distinct layers, recorded at different times by different people in different rooms, assembled to give the impression of a single continuous acoustic event.
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