Quick Turn Around Female Narrator Needed For Science Fiction Short Story "Boris's Bar"

Quick Turn Around Female Narrator Needed For Science Fiction Short Story "Boris's Bar"

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 2/10/15, and I will need your finished file returned to me by noon on 2/23 (sooner if possible). If you cannot handle the short turn-around on this, please do not audition.

STORY LENGTH: about 4,900 words

APPROXIMATE TIME FOR RECORDING AND EDITING: 2.5 - 3 hours

NOTE: This story is about a space freighter captain and her struggle with love addiction in the void of space. Despite this, this story contains only the mildest allusions to sex and no profanity, so you need not let that dissuade you from auditioning.


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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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Narrator for "Boris's Bar"
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Role assigned to: smolderingskies

Voice on ths one is open to the interpretation of the narrator. The main character is life worn, stressed, tired and an addict.


  • “Orani, tell Boris what is wrong.”    

    I told Boris about Enoch and our shared dreams, about how he abandoned me.

    "He said I was frigid,” I confided, my head on Boris’s shoulder, his hand stroking my back.

    Boris nodded, “What else?”

    “He said that for all the credits in the system, I would never learn how to love."

    I’d been drowning in loneliness when I contracted Boris to help me recover from losing Enoch. After two years of long distance communication, Enoch had traveled from Earth to be with me, only to later decide it was a mistake. “You’re not the human being I thought you were,” he said, which was rich because he wasn’t a human being at all.

        When I was spent of energy and tears, Boris lifted me into his arms, like steel support beams, and carried me to the bathroom. He undressed and washed me. He kissed my tearful eyes. He rubbed my skin with oil. With Boris I finally felt warm and safe.


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