FINAL WEEK: Whodunnit
Reminders to help us stay safe as we prepare and film
It's Filming Week!
However, as we prepare, it is important to remember the following procedures and rules to help us maintain best health practices, as well as uphold state, LCPS, and HHS safety mandates. Please read the following about our protocols and send any questions to angela.ramacci@lcps.org.
To view our schedule, visit http://www.heritagedrama.com/final-week.html
ARRIVAL PROTOCOLS
- Please arrive 10-15 minutes ahead of your assigned rehearsal/crew meeting time.
- Students must be wearing a mask upon arrival
- It must cover their nose, mouth and chin, and be as fitted to the face as possible.
- No bandanas, neck gaiters or valved masks are allowed.
- Every student must arrive with a completed and signed paper copy of the LCPS COVID-19 Prevention Daily Questionnaire (available at http://www.heritagedrama.com/final-week.html ).
- Student must be wearing appropriate clothing to crew meetings, blocking rehearsals and mic checks. Do not wear crocs or slides. Your foot must be in a shoe that entirely encloses your foot. School policies on appropriate attire applies. Cast members will come fully dressed in costumes, hair & make-up for filming days. Review the Schoology Whodunnit page for tutorials.
- While parents may wait in the school parking lot until the end of your child’s rehearsal, we will not be allowing parents (who are not trained safety captains) into the building.
- Remember, students will enter through one door (A5, or the main entrance during inclement weather) and exit through a different door (B1 – outside the band room/across from the stadium).
REQUIRED ITEMS
MASK
CREW: Students will provide their own masks for all crew meetings.
CAST: Students will provide their own masks for all blocking rehearsals. Clear masks will be provided for filming. These masks will be handed out at mic check (Friday).
COVID-19 QUESTIONNAIRE
No student will be admitted without this form. Students who answer Yes to any of the questions on the form may be sent home, to ensure the safety of the production as a whole.
GLOVES
CREW: Students may wear HHS provided gloves (vinyl or nitrile) or may provide their own gloves for all crew meetings. Gloves must fit well. Elastic or a strap at the wrist is ideal.
CAST: Students may wear HHS provided gloves (vinyl or nitrile) or the gloves from their costume for all blocking rehearsals. Costume gloves must be worn for filming. These gloves were fitted and given out during costume fittings.
ENTRANCE PROCEDURES
Students must…
- Wait in line outside of the school, maintaining 6 foot distance (as indicated by the markers) until it is your turn to meet with the safety captain.
- Meet the safety captain outside the A5 door.
- This is directly by the Blackbox and the backstage of the Auditorium.
- In case of inclement weather, we will use the main entrance of the school. The Safety Captain will be underneath the school entrance awning.
- Hand your completed LCPS COVID-19 Prevention Daily Questionnaire to the safety captain.
- Have your temperature checked by the safety captain.
- Those with fevers will be immediately sent home
- Verify that you are wearing gloves or put on an HHS provided pair.
- Receive approval from the safety captain to enter the building via the A5 door.
- Once inside the building, students must wait on a distance floor marker, until Ms. Ramacci calls you for next steps.
REHEARSAL RULES
Once inside the building,
- Each student must maintain social distance requirements at all times.
- Your gloves and mask must remain on at all times.
- Students must listen and take direction from Ms. Ramacci and the other adult safety captains.
- All cast members must remember their provided number.
- This number will represent the only chair you will be able to sit in within the auditorium, when you are not on stage. All seats will be carefully labelled and socially distanced.
- This is the number of our mic.
- Students cannot take their phones on stage.
- Students cannot bring food, drinks (other than water) or additional items from home with them. Students must walk outside to drink water, due to mask requirements.
- Student who do not follow these rules will be sent home.
REMEMBER
- All three forms at http://www.heritagedrama.com/whodunnit-families.html must be completed before a student can attend crew meetings, mic check, blocking rehearsal and/or filming.
- Students will only be called for those meetings, rehearsals and filming sessions where they are needed. Students will be excused as soon as their section is complete and should be picked up promptly.
- Students will exit through the B1 door (outside the band room/across from the stadium).
- If any student becomes ill at any time, they will be moved to an isolation room (following LCPS protocols). Parents will be contacted, and the student must be picked up immediately.
HHS Pride Productions
Email: angela.ramacci@lcps.org
Website: heritagedrama.com
Location: 520 Evergreen Mills Road, Leesburg, VA, USA
Phone: 571-252-2800
Facebook: facebook.com/HeritageDramaBoosters
Twitter: @HHSproductions