QUICK TURN AROUND Male Narrator with Japanese knowledge needed
Project Overview
Male narrator needed for a short quirky story that takes place in not-too far future Japan on our weekly sci-fi story podcast, Escape Pod. You don't need to be an expert speaker, but familiar enough to handle pronouncing a couple names and phrases would be good.
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 7/10/15, and I will need your finished file returned to me before or by midnight on 7/24. If you cannot handle the short turn-around on this, please do not audition.
STORY LENGTH: about 3,990 words
APPROXIMATE TIME FOR RECORDING AND EDITING: 1-2 hours
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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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The voices should be different, but how they are is up to your interpretation. Tone, cadence, inflection -- you decide. If the spoken parts can be in a Japanese accent, that would be great. But I don't want heavy-handed caricature accents. I'd rather have no accent than fake. Either way, I would like reasonable pronunciations on names and words, which might call for a little research on your part, or if you're comfortable enough with the style to go it on your own, that's fine too.
"Thank you for making the time to see me," Kentaro said. He also had plenty of practice of being polite to jerks.
Saito's gaze strayed back to his tablet. "My wife's goal in life is to visit every world heritage site. Which do you think would be less boring, Angkor Wat or Petra?"
"I don't travel much," Kentaro replied.
Saito laughed. "I guess not. I think we'll go to Angkor Wat. It says they filmed Audition for Death there. Maybe I'll meet Akita Yumi."
The young guy guffawed appreciatively. Kentaro had never heard of Audition for Death or Akita, but tried his best to make his chuckle sound authentic.
"So you're supposed to be some superhacker?" Saito said. Kentaro didn't like boasting, but he needed the money. "I'm good with computers."
"I already have guys that are good with computers." The young guy looked as though he was ready to explode with smugness.
"How long were you away?" Saito asked.
"Thirty years." Yamamoto would have told Saito all this.
"Technology has changed a lot since then," Saito said.
When Kentaro went inside, a tablet was something your doctor gave you. "I wasn't allowed to use computers, but I learned other skills."
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