1) A student named Lucy McKenna is writing to request permission to use royalty-free music from Mr. Macleod's site in a short film her group is creating for a media studies A-Level course. 2) The film is about two characters struggling to get to school for an important exam and is being made in the silent, black-and-white style of Charlie Chaplin films. 3) Lucy asks for permission to include Mr. Macleod's music, which she found online and feels is a perfect fit for the film's silent film, black-and-white genre.