INTRODUCTION
Hello, I'm Iso, the founder of ISOTOPIC PRODUCTIONS! I'm here to present our first official project, an audio drama titled "Smile Grove", a psychological thriller podcast focusing on the experience of four teenage patients trapped in an increasingly nightmarish suicide prevention center. A large majority of this series is based off of my own experiences with these facilities.
This casting call is meant as a preliminary "hiring sheet" to determine the rest of season 1's cast before we begin rehearsing and recording in July. We're only opening up audition spaces for major characters, though we might still contact you if we're personally interested in your voice for a smaller character!
All roles are in english, and we aren't looking for any exact accents in specific.
Additionally, we'll be paying between $15 and $30 dollars per episode, depending on the length and complexity of a character's appearance in an episode. Averaging out the calculations, most main characters ended up wavering around the $500 mark for the entire season, for a frame of reference.
Voice actors will be verbally credited in the credits and description of every episode they appear in, as well as our website & other socials.
PODCAST OVERVIEW
"Smile Grove" is a semi-serialized audio drama taking place in a lovecraftian inspired suicide prevention center. Season 1 covers the stay of the main character, Nikolai, as they come to realize the abstract dangers bubbling behind this sterile environment. The season will consist of thirteen episodes, averaging at about twenty minutes each. These episodes deal with heavy subjects, such as prescription drug abuse, derealization, suicidal & homicidal thoughts, medical horror, and fear of the unknown.
DEADLINES AND AUDITIONS
We want to have most, if not all characters cast by May 14th, 2022. We currently don't intend to extend this deadline, as all but two scripts have been written for voice actors. We also plan to announce our new cast members within a week of the auditions closing (May 21st, 2022). The rehearsal and interview process will occur over the following two months, as we gear up to record in August. It'd be most effective for us as a group to have live rehearsals and recording sessions, so we'd prefer people who are relatively free during the summer months.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Expect a warm and kind welcome from everyone in the ISOTOPIC PRODUCTIONS crew! Upon being brought into the cast/crew, expect us to regularly keep in touch for both production updates and ways we as a group can work best together. Unfortunately, we don't have the benefit of years of experience in the industry, though we have a passionate and driven class!
We communicate mostly through Discord. If you don't use this application, feel free to participate, though your auditions are less likely to be considered. We strongly recommend participation through Discord so that you can collaborate with your fellow voice actors!
WHAT WE EXPECT OF YOU
We care about you not just as an actor, but as a person. We want to make sure we'll have someone who's willing to actively engage in the production process and interact with the rest of the cast and staff. We're likely going to be very hands-on in our production, so we're looking for someone comfortable with semi-regular voice calls for rehearsals and recordings.
We do require a certain level of quality on your recordings, however. We're looking for at least a higher quality bluetooth mic (no gamer headsets), but we can be flexible depending on the situation! We're also personally flexible on the script, and are willing to change wordings to make lines easier for voice actors!
Please submit your recordings as one .wav file to our company email address, which will be provided to you after casting. If a file is too large to submit via email, we prefer to use google drive.
Because we're also looking to hopefully produce multiple seasons of Smile Grove, we'd appreciate having voice actors able to stick with us for the years to come!
We can't wait to embark on this journey with you!
WHO ARE WE?
ISOTOPIC PRODUCTIONS is an independent production studio founded in January of 2022, with the sole intent of offering unique audio-based content that both engages and entertains it's audience.
Read more on our discord server
