Email to ask if I can film in the theatre

Tonight I finally managed to book the theatre out an I filmed in there with Hannah, her friend Laura who helped us by holding the lyrics and encouraging Hannah to perform and our friend Lydia who also helped by reading the lyrics out the line before they came up in the song.

Firstly I went to see Andy Feetom, the theatre manager who showed me the timetable of the theatre and when it was booked out. I had previously spoken to Hannah to ask her a few dates of when she was free to film. We decided it would be best to film after college so we had more time so Thursday 17th January was perfect.

This is a copy of the email I then sent Andy on the day of the filming to make sure the theatre was still free for me:

On the day of the filming me and Hannah organised the outfit I wanted her to wear and her make-up and then went into the theatre to set up. When Andy arrived I went up to the sound and light booth so I could set up the lighting to how I wanted it. I used the information and techniques I had learnt on my Technical Theatre course to make the theatre lighting how I wanted it and eventually I ended up using a spotlight which gave the effect that she was on stage performing to a large audience rather than in an empty room. I carried down the mic and stand and adjusted the mic stand to the height of Hannah in her heels.

I filmed Hannah singing the whole song through numerous times in different carera positions. I shot a long shot, a mid shot, two medium close ups and a close up. I shot three of them from the front and then two from the side.

I used my docking station and my iPod so that Hannah could sing along to the song. I asked her to sing along to the song so that I had the proper movements of the mouth that I would hopefully be able to lip sync better. As Hannah wasn't 100% on the song lyrics, my friend Lydia sat to the side of Hannah out of shot and told her the words just befor she had to sing them. This was the best thing that I could do in this situation as Hannah had had months (since she agreed to participating) to learn the lyrics to the song.