Recording Our Monologue

We travelled up to Guildford on Sunday to record the monologue we had previously written. We went to Spiral Studios and met Rob and Sam. When we arrived they took a while to set up all of the microphones and equipment needed for our recording. This took around 20 minutes, giving Lauren (our main character) time to rehearse the monologue and get it in her memory.

While Rob and Sam finished setting up, it was time for Lauren to go into the sound proof room. She had headphones on where she could hear us talking when we wanted to give her comments and advice, and we could hear what she was saying through the speakers where we where. This really helped us get the perfect portrayal of emotions from Lauren.
It took around 30 minutes to record our monologue and get it to the quality we wanted it. Rob had to add a few things he called plug-ins to it, which he said made the overall quality of the track better. He also said adding this would help us be able to put music on top of it without reducing the sound quality. He gave us a CD of the un-mastered version and he is going to email us the finished product in a few days time.

Overall we are so thrilled with how the session went. Rob gave us a discount because we didnt take very long recording, which was a bonus. We loved the experience of going to a real recording studio with all the prefessional equipment. Rob and Sam were incredibly kind and helpful. Lauren was absolutly amazing! She got into character straight away and nailed it within 3 attempts. Having the monologue recorded, has given us the basis of our film. We can now move on to start the actual filming process and hopefully that will turn out as good as the monologue did.