Quick Turn Around Female Narrator Needed For Science Fiction Short Story "Temporary Friends"
Project Overview
Female narrator needed for special event celebrating female authors on our weekly sci-fi story podcast, Escape Pod.
This role is unpaid, but it will get you into our narrator pool and we are working on budgeting to pay narrators something in the near future. For this project, your payment is experience, a work credit, and promotion on our website.
Your audio quality does not need to be top quality, but it should be pretty good and it does need to be recorded in quiet surroundings. You also need to be able to edit out your own long silences and re-dos. The remaining requirements are below.
This project will be cast 2/3/15, and I will need your finished file returned to me by noon on 2/16. If you cannot handle the short turn-around on this, please do not audition.
STORY LENGTH: about 2,300 words
APPROXIMATE TIME FOR RECORDING AND EDITING: 2 hours
NOTE: This story is about how people may think about and deal with death in relation to the medical technological advances in the future.
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Escape Pod Narrator Guidelines
TECHNICAL SPECS:
We prefer uncompressed mono WAV or AIFF format files, FLAC, or Apple Lossless (m4a).
A sample rate of 44.1 kHz is best.
Your file will be too big to email; we have a web tool you can use to upload it. Just go to https://www.hightail.com/u/EscapeArtists
EDITING:
Please edit the file yourself to remove long pauses and multiple takes. We will do a final screening as part of producing the episode, but it is a great help to us if you can minimize the editing on our side. While we do want you to edit your mistakes, please do not run a noise filter on your file, we'll do that.
We reserve the right not to use recordings we deem unsuitable.
READING TIPS:
Make sure your reading starts with the title and author.
Escape Pod prefers a clean, 'audiobook' style of reading (NO sound effects), but with some energy and personality to it.
Pacing is the most important thing. In particular, don't read too fast -- that's hard on the listener. Wherever there is a break in the text (several empty lines and/or something like ### or * * * *) please leave a silent pause about 3-4 seconds long.
Please avoid extra noise- gesturing, fiddling with pens, etc, - these can thump the mic or make background noise.
Keep your face in front of the mic. Otherwise you will get fades.
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Ideal narrator would be late 20s to late 30s; mid to high pitched voice; she's a mother of a 5-year-old, so not bubbly, but not gruff either.
The second week of kindergarten, Mimi came home with a rabbit. Despite numerous mentions of the Temporary Friends project in the parent newsletter, I wasn't prepared to see my five-year-old girl cuddling a honey-colored fluffball that was genetically engineered to have fatally high cholesterol and die of a heart attack later in the school year.
"I named him Mr. Flufferbottom." Mimi told me. I glared at Great-Grandpa John, who'd been watching her while I finished up my shift at the clinic. He shrugged. My gruff maternal grandfather wasn't my first choice of babysitter, but he needed a place to stay and I needed someone to watch Mimi after school.
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