Chumish and French: Batch 1
Project Overview
Hello all, The Thomas Cynic here! This is the audition page for the first 4 episodes (batch 1) of my all-new series Chumish and French. If you feel you have a stupid voice to provide for a character, this is the place to audition. First of all, I'd recommend heading to my channel if you don't know how to audition, I made a video on how you can do that: my Chumish and French update (it's the one with that creepy thumbnail of the Fat Controller).
My channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8zRp0U1ekTbABVaJV5oS3g
IMPORTANT: When you audition, make sure to leave a comment on that video saying what your Casting Call Club username is and what roles you auditioned for. That's how I'll contact you and let you know if you've been accepted. Alternatively, you can read the lines off this page and send me a link to a YouTube video with you saying them, if you don't want to make a CCC account.
The characters don't have a ton of lines in this batch, but that's ok, there will be a lot more in later batches. If you only want to voice a character for this batch of episodes, tell me that in your YouTube comment and I'll be fine with that. That means you'll voice act for this batch of episodes but you won't for some/all of the other 12 episodes.
Tips:
- Record in a quiet room with not much noise (I don't mind a bit of background static, but audio quality is still important)
- Make the voices for the character as stupid as you want, try going for the polar opposite of what that character is (eg Edward being psychopathic)
- (OPTIONAL) Say each audition line twice, to get a better feel for where you're going or try a different take
Auditions can be found below, good luck!
Correction from the video: Jaimsh doesn't appear in this batch, he appears in the first episode of batch 2. My bad.
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Chumish is a cheeky tank engine who torments Gorchun every day through cruel and sadistic sleep deprivation. In Batch 1, he doesn't have too many lines. He isn't even a main character in Chumish and French really, the series focuses more on Gorchun, Henreh, and Jaimsh.
“Wake up lazybones, I don’t know how an engine can have bones, never mind lazy ones, but that’s irrelevant.”
“I shall never be the same again, my wheels will be quite worn out.”
“Peep-peep, stop, stop!”
Edgewadge is a psychopath who badly needs a therapy appointment. He's a fairly major role in Batch 1, and is the lead character of the second episode. However, due to the excessive amount of exposition the narrator does, he still doesn't have many lines.
"It isn’t illegal if you’re not caught.”
“Why did you need to say that three times? I heard you the first."
“I’m going out again tomorrow,” [leave a pause] “What do you think of that?”
Henreh is one of the supports of batch 1, starring in 2 episodes. Henreh's a rebel, he stayed in a tunnel and is famous for dying there, according to BuzzFeed. This character could benefit from a stupidly high-pitched voice, I think. Feel free to do your own take if you want though. He doesn't have much meme-ified dialogue, his lines are mostly from the original show.
“The rain will spoil my lovely green paint and red stripes."
“Oh I’m stiff, OH I’M STIFF!" [speak very closely to the mic on that last bit]
“We’ve done it together, we’ve done it together!"
Gorchun is a lead character, he probably has the most lines in this batch (but that still isn't very many, I'm working very hard to amp up the amount of VA lines in batch 2). He's one of many psychopaths on the island of Sodor, torturing Thomas in the first episode and being an all-round snarky presence for the other 3. He also likes to talk in tricolons.
“Well little Thomas, now you know what hard work means, don’t you?”
“A goods train! A goods train! A goods train... oh the shame of it, the shame of it, the shame of it!”
“I told you so. Now, may I recommend we knock down that reinforced brick wall, rebuild a section of track, steam an engine for the first time in years, give him an overhaul while we’re at it, and maybe Henry will be able to move the train before Christmas.”
The trucks: very minor characters with only 1 line, but they're vital to the running of the railway. Or so Sir Chopham Hatch says, I can't see the point in them.
"That's illegal!" [literally their only line]
A female voice actor would be preferable since we don't have much female representation in the cast of season 1, but anyone is welcome to try. The coaches speak in perfect synchronisation... how they do it is a mystery and the subject of at least 3 doctoral papers. Again, very few lines (just the 2 listed above, if I've skim-read my scripts right).
“You can’t get away, you can’t get away!"
“You’ve done it hurray! You’ve done it hurray!”
I need a Donald Trump impression. As good as you can, please. All you need to know about this character can be summed up in one of my favourite lines from batch 1.
"They wanted to impeach him but he looked like a peach anyway so that wasn't an option."
“I never liked these big engines... always going wrong. Send for another engine at once.”
“In less than 2 episodes, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country."
“Have a run to ease your joints, and find a turntable, after a few good spins you’ll feel like you’re on an LSD trip, which is exactly what a really useful engine needs.”
All grouped together as one role, includes people like driver and firemen. Minor role; only 2 or 3 lines.
“Gordon can’t get up the hill, will you take Edward and help him please?”
“I don’t know..."
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