New World Adventures
jetset for Gwenevere (Loving housewife of Alek, the sword fighter)
2,553 words.
IN MY HEAD: I imagine Sarah Alexander's character Susan Walker from the TV show Coupling
You are honour bound! You gave me your word that I should join you for
our first quest, and you have broken it! (Angry)I shall not delay you too long. I swear by all the gods, you shall not regret my presence. (Over-the-top gratitude for letting her tag along)
You were right. I should have drawn my sword. (Apologetic) [This is one of those well after the fact thought-out prepared-in-advance sincere apologies, not an off the cuff apology in the moment.]
This is actually better than the voice in my head I was imagining when I wrote this. I can tell that you forgot to turn the gain on your microphone down to match your voice when you recorded the first line, but that's easily fixed. (Though keep an eye on it in future auditions. It sounds bad.) Other than that, wow. Perfect. I don't want to call it this early, but you're definitely winning so far.
Hm, I actually did not adjust any mic volume settings in this piece if you can believe it - I even left breaths in, so you got an especially raw piece lmao - I guess I just spoke more loudly for the aggressive line. I'll be more aware of the audition's overall volume in the future, and I'm glad it sounds good to you otherwise!
The voice was perfect, but if you don't set your microphone to match your volume, the whole take is worthless. There is no way of recovering that in post. I hardly noticed the breaths, but now that you point it out, the trick to that is to direct your voice 60 degrees away from the microphone. Doing so, the volume of your voice will drop slightly, but the volume of the breaths will drop dramatically.