Falling Birds | original audio drama
SteelThunder for Kit
Kit Holloway is our protagonist - young, naive, a wide-eyed wannabe artist. He's the type old ladies would describe as a charming young man, but he's really just too anxious to take a wrong step. He's grown up only ever wanting to see the magic in the world, but he's just been hit by a horrible wake-up call to how things can actually be. He's stupidly in love with his childhood friend, Delilah, but they're both too stubborn to admit it.
Kit acts as a narrator to many of the story's events, and so needs to have a subtle distinction between his (internal) monologue/narration and (external) dialogue. For moments of narration, I'd love if the voice could become more hushed, intimate, like a storyteller.
We see Kit between ages 18-22, so his voice will require a youthfulness that can also handle a lot of emotion and nuance.
Voice type:
Medium pitch, smooth, youthful
(wistful, amused, soft) Never really been all that different, have we? All I do is write stories that never go anywhere - only talking about stupid, far-off, romantic things - and you inhabit them. You’re what makes them real.
(furious, explosive, devastated, screaming then fading away) I ALREADY HAD IT! I held her! Kissed her…! She was going to America, and I - I…
(narration, internal) There’s something strange about being on a precipice, isn’t there? A man on the edge with this oddly visceral desire to hurl himself over it. As if the mind’s only reasonable solution to the altitude is to think, ‘well, fuck this’. And – rather than accept defeat to the cliff, or balcony – the body concludes it must simply end itself.
Hey, lovely job on these, your voice is weirdly soothing which I think Kit kinda demands given quite how much of the story he tells. I like the wistfulness you've got going in line 1, but would love to see a bit more amusement/playfulness injected - in this moment he's sorta flirting with Delilah (and failing very badly). Similarly on line 2, I really enjoy how you trail off, but this moment I feel has to be an absolute EXPLOSION just completely derailing all the softness and going totally mad on screaming and anger and everything. If you'd be up to recording a second go at these, I'd really love to hear them! Thanks so much for your time already, I really appreciate it x
Hi thank you so much for the feedback. I'd love to give you a second recording but I'm only allowed one audition per role with the account I have. Can I add you on discord and send you the audio file there?
Yes. absolutely! CelestielleVA#2227
Awesome! Just added you. I'll go ahead and record that right now