Newsreader role to become paid
We are looking into the possibility of compensating our voice talents. If you are interested in an audition, here's the moment!
Newsreader & Correspondent wanted at TBK News
Project Overview
NEW LISTING!!!
https://www.castingcall.club/projects/newsreader-correspondent-wanted-at-tbk-news-2
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Note: We have updated this casting to reflect recent changes regarding TBK News becoming more independent.
The Butterfly Kingdom is now also looking for News Correspondents and voice talents to read the latest headlines from TBK News. There are numerous other positions available throughout TBK which you can see at the application form here.
What is TBK?
The Butterfly Kingdom is a community formed by the weight of various projects. Our mission is to educate while entertaining young audiences with a selection of exciting and imaginative projects and schemes; offer support to individuals interested to work creatively; and sustain a safe, operational and serviceable means of communication on a text and voice chat application called Discord. While working unitedly with our community, we are keen to step out of boundaries and are happy to be challenged with upcoming releases of plans, projects and schemes.
Our values highlight the importance of honesty, trust, respect and belonging.
In plain words, we are here to provide a platform of creative works to entertain, educate and excite young aspiring creators and individuals of our community.
- Constitutional Document: https://link.thebutterflykingdom.net/constitution
- Glossary: http://link.thebutterflykingdom.net/glossary
- Join Community: https://discord.gg/uYSHyqG
What is TBK News?
TBK News is an independent branch of The Butterfly Kingdom, focused to bring news stories to the community about its goings-on and phenomena surrounding it. It's written and sounded by passionate individuals of diverse backgrounds, skill levels and interests. You can view TBK News bodged homepage here: https://link.thebutterflykingdom.net/tbknews
Selected articles:
- January Hearing Proves “Great!” News for Director As TBK Management Offers Financial Aid
- Exclusive Interview With Founder, Lacon-ify: Not A Little World, But A Great Big Kingdom!
- Lead Project M Director Stepping Down Mumbling “I Have More Important Things To Manage”
For voice talents, what are we looking for?
We are looking for a selection of voice talents with different accents and styles of reading. This is to ensure the news recordings aren't becoming uninteresting for the audience. Please feel free to add your own characteristics, charm and quirkiness - that make the performance unique to you. However, make sure you remain respectful to the listener and remain impartial on the story at hand.
Please look at our specification guide and don't worry if you cannot achieve it yet. Our audio engineer takes the responsibility of these on their own - this is just to ensure your audio is clean especially during the audition phase:
- Average tone levels at around -20dB
- Aim for a true peek at around -3dB
- Export to a 192kbps or higher MP3, with a Constant Bit Rate (CBR) at 44.1 kHz
- Preferably exported in a single mono track
What are the requirements?
- You must have Discord.
- You must be 13 years of age or older.
Any Questions?
If you're looking for other types of positions (such as writer, graphic, audio engineer, video editor, etc.) or have any general inquiries or concerns, please message LACON#9136 on Discord.
FAQs:
- What is TBK News Headlines?
It's a weekly digest of the community's latest goings-on with a short and snappy podcast sounded by passionate individuals of diverse backgrounds, skill levels and interests.
- Where will be the podcast released?
TBK News Headlines will be hosted by Buzzsprout on SoundCloud and Spotify - with Google Podcasts and others following after. The latest entry will always be available on Google Drive to ensure that everyone can access it!
- How many talents are you looking for?
We are looking for a range of voices without a definitive number in mind.
- Do you provide sample scripts?
If you're looking to apply as a writer for TBK News Headlines, or you're interested in the script presentation before you audition as a newsreader, we are happy to present you with an example script. One is listed in the Newsreader's role description. For more, please message LACON#9136 on Discord.
- I can only see the last three months of TBK News Headlines on Spotify. Why is that?
Kahpuh issued a statement regarding this peculiarity explaining “we are automatically omitting episodes older than three months to ensure the streaming app is not swamped with exhausted content”.
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Latest Updates
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Correspondent role now open! Plus few extra notes
As per endeavour to ensure the TBK News division remains autonomous from the management, we are opening a General Correspondent position. In addition, there had been some reshuffling to comply with those recent motions, as seen with an updated project and role description for a Newsreader. The deadline was also shifted, reading samples provided and supplementary links added to the project page where necessary. In the news: Lacon publicises their daily schedules, Monarch Network recruitment campaign approaches and afresh episode of TBK News Headlines releases on Mon 24th 2020 - or sooner! -
Auditions as normal & Monarch Network project soon!
While we have already found a satisfying catalogue of voice actors, we will continue to moderately support this project page. The deadline has been moved. If you're interested in joining TBK as a voice actor, feel free to audition! Our scout and recruitment team will review new applications. Furthermore, TBK will open a separate project for Monarch Network, where you can audition for character voices, narrations, etc - as well as joining the Lore and Storytelling Dept. -
Update to the writer role for this casting
In accession to changes of phrasing for clarity, we are now asking you to indicate which area of writing you're applying for. -
We are now providing sample scripts
If you're looking to apply as a writer for TBK News Headlines, or you're interested in the script presentation before you audition as a newsreader, we are happy to present you with an example script. Please message LACON#9136 on Discord for more details.
Writer
TBK News Correspondent
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Unpaid
As per endeavour to ensure the TBK News division remains autonomous from the management, we are opening a General Correspondent position.
A list of duties might include: coordinate and draft live-updates messages; also, prepare and write TBK News Headlines episode scripts for approval and additional editing while abiding by deadlines.
This is an excellent opportunity for a novice news correspondent who would like to gain further exposure to the working inerts within a community-driven, fast-paced and friendly environment. As a TBK News Correspondent, you'll participate in daily operations at TBK and gain insight into administering a novel and vivid organisation by offering comprehensive journalism and summarising relief to the growing community of young creators.
While minimum to none experience is required, we expect you to be self-driven and motivated, with an ability to show initiative in all situations; staying calm under pressure; having a customary interest to strive for professionalism, including a general act of confidentially – as this role may deal with highly sensitive information; admittance to some IT literacy across a variety of tools, including GSuite; competent knowledgeability and reporting skills; and be well versed at communicating with members of staff from all levels and areas of the organisation.
Does this sound like you? Apply using our application form: https://airtable.com/shrGpuvyy6WEaaCoL or throw us a note by auditioning below!
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Voice Actor
Newsreader
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Paid: Flat Rate 10 USD
Note: the audition script has been updated Wed, 19 Aug 2020.
Please perform the exert provided (viewable from the sample script found here). You may take inspiration from other sources and examples of news reading online such as "Headlines" from BBC News. As a general guide: stay at a constant speed and speak clearly. Please use the name you would like to be correlated with. The final product should feel similar to this after we edit it for public release: https://link.thebutterflykingdom.net/newsreader-example presented with similar graphic to this: https://link.thebutterflykingdom.net/7a164 (The examples provided are strictly for demonstration purposes and it won't be appropriated for anything else.) Otherwise, you may also listen to TBK News Headlines archive on SoundCloud here.
In your audition, only provide narration audio and do not use heavy editing.
Greetings, this is TBK News with the community’s latest headline stories read by _____.
Project M is now officially unveiled as Monarch Network through a recent update to it’s Minecraft forum thread.
Accompanied with carefully composed banners, graphical elements and a logo, “Monarch Network. The most ambitious leap in Minecraft server design,” it reads.
Part of several production schemes by The Butterfly Kingdom, Monarch Network is a forthcoming Minecraft server network starring entirely custom Kingdoms: an RPG dungeon-centric gamemode, which highlights its emphasis on questing, player economy as well as multiplayer instances to bring people together. You can learn more at link.thebutterflykingdom.net/monarch
TBK has taken the time to address frequently asked questions about data protection with an update to their policy. “As per our policy,” TBK outlines, “the information you willingly present in your application will be discarded as we finalise our review to comply with data protection. We store your information for up to three months - and then destroy it permanently.”
Also, TBK recently published its policy regarding funding which you can read at link.thebutterflykingdom.net/funding
Meanwhile, Mob is promoted to Head of Administration and Matthew is promoted to Project Supervisor at and for Monarch.
TBK is urgently seeking a Community Manager and volunteers at TBK News. If this sounds interesting to you, why not ask for details from Lacon?
You may read the briefing from the latest instalments of TBK News Headlines by visiting link.thebutterflykingdom.net/tbknews.
And that was the latest headlines from TBK News. We’ll get back to you as quickly as there’s more. Thank you for listening.
Writer
Writer
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Unpaid
Due to interest, we elected to introduce casting for writers.
Please indicate which area of writing you're applying for: TBK News Headlines scriptwriter or TBK News article writer. Alternatively, you could write scripts for videos, news reading, content for the upcoming website, etc.
For TBK News, we expect you to write cohesively, independently and clearly in a formal/informal manner including news articles and/or opinion articles; you must have a body of work of professional value for evidence, where your work shows generally excellent writing practices.
If you're looking to apply as a writer for TBK News Headlines, or you're interested in the script presentation before you audition as a newsreader, we are happy to present you with an example script. Please message LACON#9136 on Discord for more details.
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