New World Adventures
Taleweaver for Narrator
THIS IS NO LONGER A PAID ROLE!!! Due to the large volume of submissions I have received, only auditions that have EXPLICITLY stated willingness to work for free, either in the comments or in a direct message to me will be considered for the role. (If you have already messaged me, adding a comment to your audition reminding me of such will not hurt. If your audition already has a comment saying you will work for free, please do not message me just to tell me the same thing.)
IN MY HEAD: This section was deliberately left blank. I don't recommend putting on a voice unless you are willing to keep that voice on all day.
Alek was sitting on his bed cleaning his sword, the ragged cloth gliding silently over a blade polished to perfection. (Calm)
An elbow to the gut and Gwenevere broke free. She ran until she saw the ground ahead catch fire. (Frantic)
I'm afraid I'm not talented enough to know the correct word for it, but some sort of weird noise keeps happening every time you make an "A" sound. If you figure out what it is, please let me know. Any chance I can get to learn more about audio quality I should take.
Huh, that's funny. It's nearly 10 o'clock at night over here, so I can't do anything atm. But tomorrow I'll definitely look into it and let you know. Other than that, anything else I can change for a better audition? You like the rest?
Well, I wrote "calm" on the first line, so a safer bet would've been to make it so ridiculously calm that I'd have to jump in and clarify, "No no! I didn't mean THAT calm!" If you do that, it's my fault the take is wrong. You were just following directions, which makes you look good, even if it's not at all what I wanted. However here, you placed your bet on being somewhat calm. If it turns out that this is exactly how I pictured it in my head, that works out great for you, but if I was imagining him even calmer, it makes you look like a bad actor, because I specifically said calm and you didn't bring enough calm to the table. This is a very competitive role to get, and also I consider myself to be quite a good actor with a microphone (and I'm easier to direct because of the telapathic ability I share with myself). There's a very good chance I'll end up doing it myself, but I have an Australian accent. I think myself good at accents in general, but keeping the accent up for three hours worth of recording and someone's bound to spot the flaws in it, especially when they learn it's not my conversational accent. I try to keep an open mind when casting, which is why I'm always saying "IN MY HEAD" rather than "IDEALLY". For example, I wanted someone who sounded like Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn to play Alek. One of the auditions I really liked, the actor confessed that he didn't think he had a hope in hell, because he sounded nothing like Viggo Mortensen. It's true, he didn't. He sounded better. He sounded like Aragorn SHOULD'VE sounded! This is not the first time I've been surprised liking for something I didn't ask for and it won't be the last. Sometimes I imagine the ideal narrator to be James Earl Jones, but other times I think Roma Downey's Monica from Touched By an Angel would be perfect. Accents near the UK are always good, as are accents that featured in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings. All that said, someone may come along with an accent I hadn't even thought of and absolutely steal the show. So, I really don't know what I want, and given what you're up against you may want to give up now, but I would be honoured if you kept auditioning just for the sake of practising your acting and hearing feedback. Also, who knows, you may surprise me with something I didn't even know I wanted.