HOW TO SHOOT A TIGER | Animated short voice casting
Adam C for Cutler St. Clair
An upper-class English 19th century big game poacher, who specialises in the hunting of Siberian tigers. Revered for his experience by other gamesmen of his time, he carries himself with an air of haughty self-importance, but though he can be somewhat flippant about the lives of the tigers he kills, he still has a respect for the power of the beasts he targets. Though he serves as Cam's guide, his delivery is more suited to a campfire than a lecture hall, adding notes of playfulness and drama to his instruction.
50s-70s, Victorian English accent, or at least as close as you can get with an uppity inflection - think early Sherlock Holmes adaptations.
Though really only the author of the book Cam's reading, he serves as the narrator of the film, and as we're trying to fit a lot of wordy 'dialogue' into a film with a strict 5 minute runtime, this role requires someone with a clear and articulate delivery who can read things quickly while still being clipped and coherent.
- audiobook
- male senior
- english (posh)
- proper english
- male adult
- victorian
- narration
- animation
On any other eve, keeping pace would have been impossible. The astonishing speed of this great beast has surprised many novice gunmen - that is to say, without the dead weight of a crippled shoulder.
The shooting of a tiger is no easy feat, least of all the shooting of a Siberian. Unlike those gamesmen of the southernmost jungles, cloaked as they are by a scorching sun this frosted alpine has scarcely felt the warmth of, the man who chooses to conquer these snowcapped wilds is not afforded the luxury of mobility.
The life of the camp-bound Siberian gamesman is undeniably a life of waiting. I once found myself camped by the cave-mouth den of one beast for, by my final count, near three weeks - tedious work, yes, but the skin of a tiger, one will come to find, is worth it.
