Hi there! This is our second casting call for our podcast, He Who Forsakes the Crown. This is our first project so we're working with no budget, this is just for fun! We're planning on releasing HWFC on podcast players.
Your lines will be written in the novel form and color-coded for easier reading. We hold cold-read meetings of every script at its release. During these meetings, casted voice actors will have the opportunity to collaborate with one another on aligning tones, inflections, emotions, etc. in various scenes. The directors will be there to give feedback and just observe the overall process. These meetings are not mandatory.
All roles are in the English language. We will showcase all voice actors on our website, lead roles will be verbally credited at the end of each episode.
PODCAST OVERVIEW
He Who Forsakes the Crown is a fantasy drama with romance and action following the story of a possessed Prince and lost peasant woman as they navigate through trauma, politics, and love. The synopsis is as follows:
Prince Zayn De’Monté knows deep down that he’ll never be the hero of his own story. His story ended years ago, when he was sixteen and he witnessed the death of his sister. It should’ve been him. So he’ll brush off the gossip mongers who say the worst, calling him evil, insane, possessed. He isn’t willing to live a life anymore, he’s surviving. So what is he supposed to do when a girl who looks like roses tells him that his life has meaning?
The show will be produced as an audio drama with atmosphere, sound effects, internal narration, and composed music. The podcast is premiering on June 4th, 2021.
WHAT WE ASK OF YOU
- We like to have a lot of fun and we want you to enjoy working on this as much as we do! We want to get along with everyone.
- Do not audition if you are younger than fifteen years old.
- Please state your name, age, and discord handle in your audition or audition information.
- Please submit all final recordings as MP3, M4A/MP4 or WAV files. There' a designated chatroom in the Discord server where you can submit your recordings.
- On that note, when recording your lines, please record them one line at a time. For example, please do not cram an entire episode’s worth of lines into one recording. This will be easier for our sound editors to identify the lines they need at certain moments, as well as accommodating for Discord’s outgoing file size limits. Please be sure to name each file according to the line recorded.
- Lines are submitted via link sharing on Google Drive.
- Deadlines are usually set two weeks after the script is released, cold reads are held every two weeks.
- For recording equipment, our requirements are simply that your voice is clear and crisp with little to no background noise. As long as your equipment allows for good quality recordings, you may use whatever you like.
- We have multiple seasons of He Who Forsakes the Crown planned so we'd like your commitment to this project for a while. If you're unable to offer this, please don't audition.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM US
You'll be greeted by Sao and Giselle, the founders of Chapter 15 Studios and creators of HWFC. The majority of our cast has already been cast and we've currently been in the recording process for three months! We work primarily through Discord so please become acquainted with the application if you're planning on auditioning. We like to have fun with our work and we're excited to look over your audition!
