Beyond Conviction Casting Call
Project Overview
Beyond Conviction Casting Call March/April 2023
Book launch Advertising/Marketing Voiceovers
The purpose of this project is to supply an advertising campaign with the required character lines from the upcoming novel “Beyond Conviction. This advertising campaign includes video and audio advertisements for social media sites such as facebook, instagram, tiktok, reddit, youtube, as well as more niche industry publications/websites/podcasts.
This is a paid commercial project working with our own IP. Please see further details below.
Project Details:You must be 18 years old or over. A valid form of ID will be required, only from the successful candidates.
This project has one male and two female characters available.
The project is paid
If selected, you must be able to turn over lines within a week of being cast as we are working within strict deadlines.
Must be using a high-quality microphone, preferably an XLR. Any recordings with any amount of background noise, hissing, popping or echo will not be considered. You must be able to provide recordings appropriate to a finished commercial product.
This project only pertains to the advertising campaign, however, quality candidates will be the first considered for the following audiobook.
Audition must be in an Mp3 or WAV format with the role and your username.
For example: CharacterName_YourName.wav
Please do not do heavy editing on your auditions.
Every line must be its own file. Different takes for the same line may be included in the same file. Selection will occur based on the “best” take. Failed or re-attempted takes will not be counted against you.
Voice fry is to be considered your greatest enemy for the duration of this project.
Please save your own copy of the takes/submission. We may keep copies of quality candidates for future internal reference, but it should be expected all unsuccessful candidates' submissions will be deleted.
Auditions close April 14th 2023
Beyond Conviction is a romantic, hard scifi space operatic. The world presented to readers is a bleak dichotomy. Set in the far future, Humanity is well past a golden age of expansion and technological innovation. Most of the advanced technologies we envision today have not only been achieved, but surpassed. Yet despite this, most of the technology is unobtainable to the majority of humanity. The story opens on our main character, Ellie, living on the edge of starvation within an 1840s frontier-like lifestyle. A draft of the blurb is copied below:
“Adroa is a bleak, backwater world on the edge of known civilisation, with every day a struggle to survive for Ellie and her two siblings. Yet when a heavily armed Conviction soldier falls from the sky and into her lap, she must face dangers even greater than the ravenous Rike swarms that threaten to consume her and her entire colony. Something is stirring in the dark between galaxies as the greatest military power humanity has ever known empties its garrisons and leaves its worlds undefended. Can a simple melon farmer rebuild her shattered home in peace, or will Ellie and her family be dragged into a galactic conflict that could determine the future of the Conviction itself?”
The full casting call document can be found here. Please review before submission:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11eBiqW9v6rsXYTKNH5Zvk9z3b1k3e4LxH34azK2PbPQ/edit?usp=sharing
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Our Main character. Ellie was unlucky enough to be born beautiful in a bleak, desperate and crumbling society. Most interactions throughout her life have involved people trying to take something from her in one form or another. This has left Ellie extremely timid, guarded and pessimistic. She is by nature a sweet and caring person who wants to see the best in people, but has been taken advantage of so many times she has trouble believing in simple concepts such as kindness, care and altruism. Her voice should default to a quiet, hesitant and nervous mannerism unless specified otherwise.
Ellies’ Character Info:
21 years old
Quiet/Timid
Pessemistic
Very nervous
Sweet/Caring
Wants to be hopeful
Downtrodden
Voice Type Needed:
Female
Soft, Mid-High voice tone
Timid
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11eBiqW9v6rsXYTKNH5Zvk9z3b1k3e4LxH34azK2PbPQ/edit?usp=sharing
- english
- female adult
- female young adult
normal speaking voice, trying to be comforting, motherly “Shhh. We’ll make up for it tomorrow okay? I love you, and I’ll need your help to get everything moved and loaded. For now, I need you to get your rest, so you can lift the crates and pull the cart. You can do that for me can’t you?”
Desperate “Jake. Is there anything we can do? I don’t know if the colony will survive without Slackvore. Everything we have. The Mathews, the Lindens, our friends and neighbours, everyone who has built a life on Adroa will lose it all. And we don’t have anywhere else to go either. Please, is there anything, anything?” Very desperate “Jake please!”
Breaking down, crying “I’m just a girl, Jake. I’m not a superhero or some character in a fairy tale. No matter what I do it's never enough. No matter how fierce Alayna is or how supportive Jonathan is or how hard I try, it didn’t matter in the end. If you hadn’t dropped out of the sky when you did we would all be dead by now. All you do is give and give and give, so much that I’m never going to be able to repay you. They already trust you, Jake! Jonathan takes shelter behind you and Alayna sits in your lap! And after everything, you still turn around and say I’m the special one. You’re wrong. You are so, so wrong, And I can’t stand the way you’re looking at me like I’m something special!”
Angry, at everything, all the time. Alayna is Ellie’s younger sister. While Ellie dealt with the difficulties of the world by retracting into herself and doing her best to hide her and her siblings, Alayna went loud. Highly confrontational, argumentative and cynical, Alaynas preferred strategy to keep her family safe is to rip the face off of anyone who walks within a hundred meters of them. Alayna is built small but walks with a swagger, carrying a confidence born of a willingness to throw down at a moments notice. Alayna is a typical tsundere, incredulous, abrasive with a strong sense of superiority, and whose default tone is shouting.
Alaynas’ Character Info:
Angry, at everything, all the time
No seriously, fuck you and the horse you rode in on
Loud, aggressive, argumentative
Hate’s everything
Everyone except her is an idiot
Embodiment of wrath and disdain
Typical angsty 16 year old
Highly cynical
Voice Type Needed:
Female
Mid-High voice tone (for 16yo)
Able to hiss and shout
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11eBiqW9v6rsXYTKNH5Zvk9z3b1k3e4LxH34azK2PbPQ/edit?usp=sharing
- english
- female teen
- female young adult
Shocked, angry “Are you kidding me!” Disgusted, angry “Jonathan, this is a fraction of what you were supposed to get! Can’t you ever grow a spine! They only charge you that much because they know they can get away with it when it’s you! We’re going to be eating marshweed for months because you can’t ever put your foot down!” Mockingly, angry “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Is that all you have to say for yourself! Being sorry doesn’t feed us, Jonathan. It doesn’t save us from the swarms when the bullets run out! What are you gonna’ do when the Rike come crashing through the door? Just roll over and let them eat you because you’re too polite to put up a fight!” Screaming, very angry “Say something else!”
Indignant, disgusted, sarcastic "*scoff* And let that dirty pirate captain pay us cents for what he's going to sell for dols and keep the difference because of ‘shipping costs?'" Complaining "Ugh…Why do you need me here? Why can't I just lie under the cart until it's time to go home."
Confrontational, hissing, threatening “And what makes you think you can talk to Ellie like that!” Accusingly, mockingly, full of herself “You might have been Conviction but that doesn’t mean you get to treat Ellie that way. You think you know everything but you don’t. You think we’re ignorant but we’re not. We’ve already worked out your big scary secret, as if it wasn’t already blindingly obvious.”
Jake has two sides to him. Personally, he is enthusiastic, honest, kind and optimistic to a fault. He is highly supportive and protective of Ellie and her family and is the antithesis of her pessimism. Professionally, he is cold, unforgiving and brutal. Being a soldier of the Conviction has him see the world in black and white, with an unhealthily detached attitude towards death and killing. When voicing him speaking on his own terms, he should be a walking ray of sunshine who has a tendency to babble. When voicing him in a military context, he should be short, professional and efficient.
Jakes’ Character Info:
22 years old
Just happy to be here
Full of healthy relationship advice
Supportive and encouraging
Highly trained and experienced elite military pilot
Brutal and uncompromising when it comes to violence
Optimist
Voice Type Needed:
Male
Soft, Mid voice tone
Enthusiastic (personal)
Concise (Professional)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11eBiqW9v6rsXYTKNH5Zvk9z3b1k3e4LxH34azK2PbPQ/edit?usp=sharing
- english
- male adult
- male young adult
Calm, initiating radio contact “FFSA dash two two one seven to LDPB Conglomerated Affinity. How copy, over.” Authoritative “Affinity actual, you are to go to full battlestations and move at emergency speed to assist a friendly freighter currently under assault by known seditious forces, callsign Blister Fang. Two two one seven will remain on station to coordinate fighter squadron, callsign Bluebird one. Scramble fighters and engage immediately. Seditious forces are to be executed without remorse. Confirm copy.” Professional under stress, raised voice, urgent "Affinity break right! Ripple bearing zero seven zero. Vampire! Vampire! Vampire!"
Low, threatening, condescending "I'll admit, I thought you would have had enough of a survival instinct to know not to pick a fight with someone armed, and armoured, in full battle kit. It seems I may have overestimated you. So let me make this extremely clear, so I can be sure there are no misunderstandings. If you come near any of those three again, or you pull some stupid stunt to try and collect on that 'debt' you were spouting off about, and I promise, no matter where you run on this little, blip of a planet, you won't make it to see the next sunrise."
Normal speaking voice, explaining “I know it may be tempting to picture some spunky young rebels overthrowing a military-industrial complex, but the reality is something altogether different.” Teasing, coy, playful “Naaw, what’s the matter Spitfire, did you want to run off and be a rebel? Going to fly around with a band of misfits and fight with the wind in your hair and a dramatic sunset in the background?”
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