Recording The Voice Over

My research showed that I needed to have a voice over in my trailer as it is a very popular convention of the genre. I have chosen to have my main actress narrating a part of the trailer to give the audience more of an insight into the story. Luckily I take Music Technology at college, and so I have access to the recording studio and have the knowledge of how to record voice. I booked a studio session and went in with my actress and the script. Here is the script:

Dana- I keep having this dream. Someone, something is following me. Every night when I'm asleep I see it, I see her, I see death. Sometimes my dreams become reality, and sometimes, they come back to haunt me.

As you can see this gives a quick back story as to what lead up to the events int he trailer and re-enforces the themes of the horror film.

Here is a quick overview of how I went about recording the voice over -
1.Set up the microphone so that it was the correct height for the actress to sit comfortably.
2. Set levels. This gave the actress a chance to practice through the script within the studio environment while I set the levels. This involved getting the right volume so that the voice is not too quiet, but also not so loud that it distorts.
3. Routed the sound to a recording program on the computer so that I could have a digital copy of the audio to take with me to the edit suite.

I then took the voice over and added it to