Satyr's Song | 3M 4F

Project Overview

Do you know what they call a goat’s song? A tragedy. Enter Dante Montecchio, a satyr bard that has seen more than his fair share of that. Join our group of misfit adventurers as they traverse a foreign realm in hopes of returning to their familiar star maps, making more than their fair share of enemies along the way.


What is Satyr's Song?

Satyr's Song is a paid multimedia project following Dante Montecchio, a satyr bard that is down on his luck in his journey to become a hero. Based on 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, it will have heavy medieval fantasy elements and detail the character's history and adventure. I was intending to try out a variety of different mediums. Some intended mediums to try are RPG dialogue scenes; 'audio books' of reading Dante's journal entries; animatics and storyboards; and even original songs created specifically for the project.


Requirements

This is a paid project and will be funded out of pocket until completion. As such, technical and performance quality are incredibly important. This unfortunately disqualifies most things like headsets and built-in microphones. Please make sure that your recording set up does not pick up excessive background noise, popping, peaking or clipping. Most of these characters are expected to emote quite heavily and will need dynamic emotions. Shouting and overacting in some capacity will likely be required for most roles unless otherwise specified. If you cannot give a role the performance it needs, please stay tuned for side characters that aren't as demanding in their voicing requirements! One offs and side characters might be necessary depending on how big the scope of the project might get.

Payment

This project will be funded out of pocket, with the actual audition deadline set significantly down the road so that I can gather assets and budget for my actors. 

I will be issuing payment on a per project basis: Usually videos with a song here or a dialogue there, and my hope is to eventually gather the cast together so I can do larger scale episodes of this story. Main characters get priority and rates can be discussed for the long-term!

Once casting is complete, payment will be made when funding is available. With everything going on, this might mean only a small project here or there until this gets traction. You are not expected to record until payment has been agreed upon and sent.

Payments will be sent exclusively through PayPal.


For more information and extra lines, please check out the video or the following Document


Good luck and thank you so much for your time!


You are viewing the logged out version of this page.

When you are logged in, you can comment, add submissions, create projects, upvote, search open roles, and way more. Login here.

Latest Updates

  • Project Hiatus

    I really hope this finds you well and that you're safe! The return on Satyr's Song is more than I could have dreamed and I thank everyone so much for their interest in regards to this project. Unfortunately, I think for the time being I might have to put it on hiatus. I'm nowhere where I wanted to be at the end of the casting call, between full-time college, part-time work, loss in the family, and a plethora of physical and emotional health degradation I just haven't had the time to get things done. My first thought had been to extend the casting call, but I cannot promise that I'll have enough free time to create a meaningful amount of progress in that time to warrant that extension. I think my game plan is to put Satyr's Song on hold until later in the year or early next year and save up on resources and funds for payment of my upcoming staff until then. I wanted to thank everyone for their time, their energy, and their interest. I've been so in love with so many of the auditions here and all of the enthusiasm. I really hope I can look forward to working with some of your incredible talents in the future! However, for the sake of this project's place in my heart, I do not want the quality to suffer or it to feel rushed because I didn't have the time to do this in the quality it deserves to be. I hope you all understand! Thank you so much once again, I hope to be able to get back to this soon, but until then, stay incredible!

  • New Minor roles added!

    The response to Satyr's Song has been above and beyond what I've expected. I was intending to have the casting call just feature the main cast, but with this turnout I thought I might hit the ground running and get a few other characters down for audition. More NPCs to come, but these ones have some priority in my heart and in the early stages of Satyr's Song! Introducing the former player character Carmen, who has more of a supporting role in the first arc. Then we have minor characters in Dante's family, his mother Kassandra and his teen brother, Mercutio. Thank you all so much for looking, the interest so far has really stoked the fire to work on this project! Best of luck in your auditions, everyone!

  • New Characters available for Audition!

    After coordinating with the rest of my group, I've managed to grab some new lines and new characters for audition. Welcome Jerry and the addition of two new female roles, Stella and Yana! Please feel free to check them out if you're interested in being involved!
Project Roles: Dante Montecchio Stella Jaeger "Jerry" Snarltooth Yana Rockwell Carmen Snarltooth Kassandra Montecchio Mercutio Montecchio Background Artist Medieval Fantasy Composer
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Dante Montecchio
open
Unpaid

As the party’s bard, Dante’s vocal range is complex, with most registries being friendly and flirty. He’s incredibly convincing and extremely personable, endearing himself to the party almost immediately with his shenanigans.

Requirements

Dante’s voice is very, very expressive; and he’s more than a bit of a thespian and loves to be melodramatic. Normal acting and then overacting is actually probably encouraged when auditioning with him. He is a very dynamic character, so the proper conveyal of emotions are integral to his design. I’ll also be really looking for someone who’s voice has a charming purr, as he’s known for being quite charismatic and irresistible in the right circles. He often is a bit of a class clown, so humor and embarrassing scenes alike are also his scene. Lastly, he is pretty sensitive, and likely will run on some high emotions depending on the scene.


He will be required to sing, being one of the few characters that have this requirement. He likely will be required to sing with essentially guitar accompaniment in an acoustic style. Other styles might be requested in time, 


Vocal Inspirations

His voice is mature and smooth, though not too deep; he exists with a hint of tenor. Inspiration of his intended range of speaking are Flynn Rider from the Tangled series and Nero from Nero Project. Other inspirations could be DreamWorks’ Sinbad or the performance of Miguel in The Road to El Dorado


Note: I have edited the first line to be a more conversational line. Please address the video or document for full lines if you're interested! You're still free to apply with the lines provided, and people with the previous lines are still being considered! Just wanted to give you guys something a little easier to chew through for an opening line

  • (Conversational, Charming) That’s me~. Dante Montecchio (Mon-teck-ee-oh), professional grade distraction and scape/goat/ at your service. We’ll get you feeling to the rights in no time, mark my words or your copper back~

  • (Uneasy, Self-deprecating) It's-- It's complicated. I'm really not valuable and.. If people saw me that way I'd.. I'd end up letting them down. 

  • (Frustrated, Upset) Fine? Is that what you call fine? Well, you sure could have fooled me! Why is everything like pulling teeth with you? Why can't you just admit when something's wrong and just-- Talk to me about it?

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 21 Submissions Apply / Audition
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Stella
open
Unpaid

Essentially the other lead of Satyr’s Song, she’s the catalyst that changes Dante’s life, for better or worse is to be decided by the story’s conclusion. She starts him on this journey at least, and he crushes on her for a long time quite hopelessly.


Requirements

She also needs quite the dynamic voice, capable of lots of anger and lots of sadness, when her heart breaks, your heart breaks. She’s capable of being very sarcastic and very indignant, considered to be tsundere in her earlier parts for how sardonic she could come off. But beneath that is a good heart and a desire to do good things. She will likely be required to have additional testing to make sure that the proper candidate can carry her dynamic range. Stella's voice is traditionally seen as deeper than Yana's, Yana is sensual but has a lighter voice, and Stella is tiny but has a bit of depth to her tone

  • (Annoyed, venting to self) I can't believe I'm going on this stupid date with that stupid satyr because of stupid Yana.

  • (Explaining, Neutral) It’s not a life I’d want to live if you have to lie to yourself to make yourself happy. Sooner or later, you find out the truth and everything you know will come crashing down on you anyway. What’s left after that?

  • (Embarrassed) I-I gave the carnation to you to eat it not--- Not to.. Put it in my hair, you dumb dork.

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 23 Submissions Apply / Audition
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Jaeger "Jerry" Snarltooth
open
Unpaid

While his age is the youngest, Gnolls only ever really live to be 30 if they’re lucky. He’s a grizzled war veteran, a mercenary, and has seen far more combat and death and madness than the rest of our party put together. He’s a barbarian, he lives for the fight, he lives for the challenge and to be stronger than anyone that stands in his way.

Requirements

A deep voice, incredibly graveled and probably worn, he’s honestly the deep voiced veteran character. He suffers a lot over the course of this journey, so points of grief and anger, the latter especially, are common. Needs to be able to shout, needs to be able to roar with anger, will very likely be required to make a lot of shouts and noises of combat. Outside of combat he is the stoic, quiet type, though is also very aggressive and sassy when push comes to shove.

  • (Resolute) .. Everyone in my party has lost something... We all want it back. And I won’t rest until we get home. I realize that now... Heh... I let anger consume my life once. I won’t let it consume me again.

  • (Aggressive, Loud) I may be a monster but I'm not a child killer! You want someone like that? Find someone else! Kill me if that is your whim, I will NOT help anyone like that ever again!

  • (Wounded, Hurt, talking with his amnesiac wife as context) I don't know what you're talking about. You can't know that. You don't even know me.

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 9 Submissions Apply / Audition
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Yana Rockwell
open
Unpaid

Yana is the party's devious Wizard. Her voice is normally playful, and curious.  She loves lying, and tricking people, and pulling all kinds of pranks. However, when it comes to certain tasks, she is very tunnel vision, and serious. If plans don't turn out well, she gets frustrated easily.



Requirements

You'll need to be able to give a silliness tone of voice when Yana is scheming, or the like. 


-Also since she is prone to slight aggression, being able to also showcase her anger is important.


-What is also the most important is being able to have a playful air to her voice.


-Yana is also a very sensual character in general. She used to be a dancer in a circus dodging swords, so she has this aura about her that draws people to her. So, being able to give that flirtiness is key.

  • (Devious) "C'monnn Dante, just ask her out. You know you want to.  If you wont, I'll ask her out for you. And you, and I both know you don't want that.~"

  • ( Anger ) "See, if we did things my way, none of this would have happened! But nooooo, no one wants to listen to the rock lady!!"

  • (Flirtatious) "My.~ You sure have a way with words. It's almost as if you're trying to seduce me. Not that I mind of course." (chuckles.)

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 28 Submissions Apply / Audition
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Carmen Snarltooth
open
Unpaid

Formerly the wife of one Jaeger Snarltooth, she has since lost her memory of him and her past life. With no family and no memory, Carmen was enslaved in short order by a criminal organization. Breaking through that bondage and leading a resistance movement against it has made her a popular and controversial figure. Her kindness is what made her one of Dante’s best friends. She is fairly significant in the first arc!

Requirements

Carmen has a fairly deep tone, she has the type of voice that can command a room with her inspirational charisma. She used to be very kind, gentle and maternal in her last life, but in this one she has seen more tragedy and it probably wears on her. Imagining a war hero or captain of the guards and you’ve essentially got Carmen.

  • (Neutral, Amused) You know how to fight? Prove it. Grab any weapon off the wall and let’s see what you can do. 

  • (Worried, almost Maternal) Hey. Are you hungry? Do you mind if I take a look at that eye? I know you said you’ve got it, but an extra set of hands can’t hurt, right?

  • (Biting, A Call to Arms) He is a man, the same as any of us. If you can willingly subject yourself to serve a minotaur and see them as an intelligent, sensitive equal, remind yourselves that Gnolls are also people! I trust my life to Jaeger (Jagger), he is one of my closest friends. If you are going to continue to serve with my family, you fight alongside him! If you can’t get over the way he looks, there’s the door.

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 11 Submissions Apply / Audition
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Kassandra Montecchio
open
Unpaid

Dante’s mother. She is colloquially known as the “Dragon of Sheprok”, and whether that refers to her ruthless practice of law or her former affiliation as a retired adventurer isn’t clearly defined. Unforgiving as a dragon and arguably as dangerous as one, her all-seeing eyes are set towards realistic goals like raising a family and becoming a god.

Requirements

Kass is a relatively deep voiced and very mature woman. She’s also relatively near and dear to my heart, so she will probably have significant scenes later. She is proud and holds herself very professionally. A bit of an ice queen, the vocal registry Kass hits on is nearly constantly strained or annoyed. She speaks as if she can’t be bothered to talk to you, though that does soften a bit with people she likes. In short, she is actually very socially awkward and has used intimidation to get through life, and now well into her centuries as an adult, it shows. Accent could be NA or a European accent, especially Italian, French, British, or whatever strikes as 'elven',  though NA likely still has preference.

  • (Neutral, Pretentious, honest to god actually trying to pay a compliment) You’re not on my level. (Thoughtful Pause) But you’re not a Neanderthal. You’re infuriating, but you’re an idiot at worst. There’s plenty of dumber things to be.

  • (Dismissive) Fortunately, you can think whatever you want. I don't have to explain my intentions to you, or anyone else. It all boils down to what can be done about it. If you've got a problem with it, what are you going to do about it?

  • (Agitated, Seething) You seem to know so much more than I do about this, because it's a yokai matter more than it's a lawyer matter, apparently. So you win. Take this up with your people. Sort it out yourselves. I don't care.

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 6 Submissions Apply / Audition
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Mercutio Montecchio
open
Unpaid

Dante’s elder brother, as a note this character is a character that is exclusively seen in the past. He was a young boy with incredible promise, patient and talented and full of sage wisdoms brought on by a future sight that made him almost seem a little beyond his years.

Requirements

This is a weird tone for me, he shouldn’t sound too mature, adverse to Dante in the present. As a point of reference, he’s probably just turning 18 in the course of their adventure, with Dante at about 14 at this point in time. He probably sounds fairly dignified, a polite and noble young man. Easily flustered, incapable of lying, but capable of sounding wise in those late night talks under the stars. 

  • (Neutral, Hopeful) I’m sure it must be a little foreign to you.., But I assure you it’s a feeling you’re going to grow used to. You’ve got your fate entangled with a Montecchio and we’re infamously hard to shake.

  • (Concerned, Apologetic) I'm so sorry, I should have led with that, I just wanted you to be comfortable and I-- Forgot myself, please accept my sincerest of apologies.

  • (Sage, Late night thoughts) This world exists so that you can witness it. No matter how many times this path has been tread, it’s a new story because it’s never been seen by you. This is the beginning of your story, you just have to brave that first step. If you do well, one day someone might find a trail that is marked by your footprints, and I hope they choose to follow them.

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 10 Submissions Apply / Audition
Artist
Artist
Background Artist
open
Unpaid

I will be testing various audiovisual formats, from dialogue cut scenes to storyboards and animatics. Having backgrounds to make the process easier and painting characters into scenes would be a huge help!

  • Say something you think would fit

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 8 Submissions Apply / Audition
Music Composer
Music Composer
Medieval Fantasy Composer
open
Unpaid

I would like to create an entire OST for Satyr’s Song, it has been slated to have a rough soundtrack feel that sounds similar to a blend of Tales of series games and Kingdom Hearts. Medieval inspired fantasy adventure, but heavy on the fantasy and the emotion.

  • Say something you think would fit

Favorite role Save Role for Later Total Submissions Toggle 8 Submissions Apply / Audition
Promoted Projects:
longmao dub (a youshouyan manhua dub) - cycles 3 and 4
longmao dub (a youshouyan manhua dub) - cycles 3 and 4
batman: the protocol (animation)
batman: the protocol (animation)
project: raze | fps videogame | early access
project: raze | fps videogame | early access

Comments

Project comments Read 0 comments

Public Submissions

You are viewing the logged out version of this page.

When you are logged in, you can comment, add submissions, create projects, upvote, search open roles, and way more. Login here.