Through The Grapevine

Through The Grapevine

Project Overview


If you listen too closely through The Grapevine, you might just hear something you don't like.

Through The Grapevine is a short horror story I wrote for last Halloween. I want to make an audio version of it to post to YouTube and Soundcloud, as I think it would do well as a sort of brief audio-drama.
The story revolves around a girl named Jinks Galloway, who wants to succeed in the annual Grapevine event in Seattle. The Grapevine is a fictional yearly event occurring on October 31st, and it's a game based around subtlety and revealing your darkest secrets without being caught. However, unbeknownst to her, someone already knows who she is despite the assured anonymity, and because of that, someone dies, and in her panic, Jinks unwittingly makes a grave mistake...

If you want to read the story first before auditioning, you can read it here:

Requirements:
- Good quality audio is preferred for actors (however, if you don't have a good microphone, I'm sure I can work some editing magic somehow)
- Must be easy to contact if chosen for a role (preferably via e-mail, however Skype also accepted)

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Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Narrator
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Someone who can read smoothly and naturally with a dark tone. The narrator will be required to narrate the entire story, but the character dialogue will be replaced with the actors' takes during editing. Someone who has experience in narrating horror stories (or would like to practice to become experienced) would work best.

  • Out of everything, it was the mask she was given that really threw Jinks for a loop. She worried that it may not fit over her shoulder-length black hair, which was straight but had an odd tendency to curl upward at the ends—making her hair almost constantly appear to be floating—and then she worried about breathing in it. There were two small nostril holes, but the plastic front of the mask had no mouth hole.

  • Fifteen minutes passed before the first identifications were made; the first was a girl named Amber, #2-3-2-7, and the second was a man named Tim, #2-7-3-6. A few more were made in rapid succession, but Jinks wasn’t worried; there were a *lot* of people participating this year. It was almost intimidating, really, seeing so many people in the same clothes and masks. They almost looked like a cult of some sort.

  • Overwhelmed by her own panic, [Jinks] fled for the washrooms. It was dark, and she didn’t know which washroom she’d entered until she saw the urinals. She was about to turn and head back out, but then she froze. Slowly, she turned her head. From under one of the stalls, she saw legs. And blood. *Lots* of blood.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Jinks Galloway (#2257)
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Jinks is talkative (though it doesn't very much show in the story). She behaves similarly to your typical popular girl. She likes to party and tease others, but she's good-natured and is greatly disturbed by violence.
A tom-boy-ish medium to high voice would work best, but I'm open to auditions of other voice types.

  • You’re scaring the hell out of me. What golden rule? What are you talking about?

  • Oh God, oh God, oh God, no, no, no, please don’t let someone be dead, please no.

  • [scream of fear, sobbing]

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Willoughby Bright (#2486)
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: theuncertainman

Will is a wallflower. He's a serious young man, who doesn't very much like the party scene, but he's friends with Jinks. He only has one line in the story.
I'm open to auditions of any voice type, but a British accent would be preferred.

  • I do admire your double two, though.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Announcer
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: TheLesserKnownAndy

The person doing the speech that introduces the concept of The Grapevine. Monotone, mostly.
Any voice type will do.

  • Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to The Grapevine. We’re so happy that you could all make it for this year’s event.

  • Anyone caught revealing faces or any personal information, be it theirs or someone else’s, will be immediately escorted off of the premises.

  • You may rise. Let The Grapevine commence.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Alanna (#2564)
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

An extra. She identifies someone in front of Jinks.
Any voice type will do.

  • (awkward) Hello...

  • Codie, I knew it was you!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Codie (#2672)
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: wowwhy

An extra. A jock-type, he gets identified by Alanna in front of Jinks.
Any voice type will do.

  • Probably some prankster looking to scare us. What a creep.

  • Ah, dammit.

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
#2973
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

The killer.
Any voice type will do.

  • I have to show you something.

  • Never kill anyone you know, unless no one else knows that you know them.

  • You haven’t identified me yet.

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