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Versera for Clanden (A serial killer) (high difficulty acting role)
Need to do a recast of Clanden. Originally voiced by Jesse Burch and then later revoiced by Domjam, I need to recast this role because Cachino (also voiced by Domjam) is too close to Clanden (also voiced by Domjam).
Looking for an actor that can convey an extreme range of emotions.
Personality:
Not much is known about Clanden's history. On the surface he appears to be a peaceful and relatively normal person, but further investigation reveals a much darker reality. Clanden is a serial killer who kills female escorts and makes snuff video tapes. Mentally off. Not outwardly mean or cruel...outwardly polite. But from the way he speaks, someone should think, "Something is seriously wrong with him.." Something like that. Hard to explain...Odd fellow. Lives in a small room and doesn't let sunlight in.
Outwardly polite but...off. Think the Trinity Killer in Dexter. Or Robin Williams in the movie, "One Hour Photo."
When prodded, other areas of his personality begin to show.
Age:
30 years+. Will immediately disqualify any auditions that sound like a 17-21 year old actor.
Accent:
Must be North-American. I.........may be open to a British accent but would very much prefer a North American accent.
Tone:
Any. What matters more isn't his tone of voice, ie. low-medium, etc. Rather, whether he fits the personality and he sounds 35+ years old.
Persona:
There's a scene in the Sixth Sense. A scene with the character, Vincent Grey. You no longer can see any videos on Youtube (due to copyright) and because it's a very old movie but there's a particular scene where a patient in only underwear is in a bathroom. Looking for something like that. Clanden acts normal...until...you dig deeper.
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4 MINUTES and on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F79J30L4wao
Arguably the most difficult acting role in this project.
Character has to show the following ranges of emotion:
Anger
Confusion
Sadness
Crying
Frustration
Fear
Intimidation
Unstable
Tormented
Friendly:
Hey, nice to meet you. Do you need help with something?
(Denies at first) (Nervous)
Tapes in a safe?........... I'm sorry......... I don't understand.....What are you talking about?!(shakes his head)
(Sees the tape)(mutters under his breath in fright) (investigator is prying) (may go to prison) (gets caught) (scared for his life)
……..How did you?!!......... (heavy breathing) (scared) Ok. ok.. What do you want? (heavy breathing) What do you want from me?
(threatens you) (has a bomb) (threatening)
You see this? (Shows you a metal cylinder) I press this button here........ and *all* of Gomorrah burns to the ground....You don't want me to do this....... Do you?........... I've watched you.............I've seen what you've done....... ...(sadly) I know you can kill me........I'm giving you a choice......... You can kill me........or......you can give me the tape and we both walk away nice and quietly.
(looks away pensively...then slowly looks you straight in the eyes) (disturbing)
They’re not all dead. (small undertone laugh) They'll just fester and rot (laughing)
(in front of a psychiatrist)
(confused) (distraught) (unstable) (sad) (excited) (Has to sound mentally ill) (should sound tormented) (should sound like he doesn't enjoy what he does but he can't help it) (disturbed)
I……I don’t know....….I..I just *have* to. .....I can’t explain it….(getting excited while he says this) it makes me happy. It brings me joy….. You wouldn’t understand…. No one understands…….. (disturbing voice) But…I I LOVE doing this. And (crying and laughing at the same) And I don’t know why......... (laughs)....(whispers) (smiling with tears in his eyes) It makes me happy.
Please give me any feedback you have! I can re-record anything you need if you'd like me to alter my approach at all!
* A very very interesting audition. (thinking) Your natural voice also sounds really cool too. But your audition voice is actually well acted. Very well acted. The mic quality isn't quite up-to-par. But that's very odd because most AT2020s come out crystal clear. It might be because of reverb. If you already do this, then disregard but the audio would come much more clear if you do the lines in an enclosed room. I'm listening to your auditions for Boswell, Freeman, Maiko very carefully and I'm noticing the same problems. There's either an issue with the mic or with your room. The voice doesn't sound full for some reason. Usually AT2020s have very clear audio, even clearer than the Yeti by far. But something is off with your mic...or the room settings...it sounds hazy and not as clear as it should be.
I don't know much about audacity besides noise reduction, so that's all I actually do to my recordings. I never make any other adjustments because I mostly don't know how to do it the right way. I'm in an enclosed room, turned off everything that would make a sound, but the mic itself still picks up sounds from outside and every one talking in my house too. Soundproofing is a definite issue as well, I don't have any of it. Do you have any recommendations for fixes I can make to improve audio quality? Thank you so much for your feedback, I appreciate it immensely!
try using reaper software and practise with the noise gate plugin and learn more about EQ and frequency. noise removal plugin is not a good thing in my experience with audacity as it degrades the audio quality a lot. you can get a noise gate plugin with audacity. but I would strongly advise learning to use reaper or another program as its non destructible audio and in the long run saves you a lot of time.. best of luck.
Thanks so much for the feedback Domjam! I will definitely check out the reaper software and learn about EQ. I really appreciate the advice!
Your AT2020 sound console settings are fucked up. I would switch them up a bit because the quality is so damn low for some reason...
I think I've figured it out. I don't have a solution but I think it's not a common occurrence. I've listened to every audition you've ever done here on Casting Call Club to get a feel of your audio quality and mic quality. Your mic quality was excellent on June 5th, June 7th, June 13, June 14, June 16. You had issues on June 11th with the Nikesekoi Fan Dub but nearly all of your July 2nd takes are having issues where the audio sounds hollow. I think it's something that's going on with your current settings on your mic. https://pastebin.com/KUCw5VSq
Dude I really appreciate the amount of care you have put into your feedback! Yeah I didn't have the mic hooked up for a while and only recently plugged it back in, and my worst fear now is that I might have damaged it while it wasn't in use. Hopefully that isn't the case and I just need to figure out what is going on with the software settings. I really am considering converting over to an xlr setup since that is where I should be if I want to record quality audio anyway. Again, you went above and beyond here on providing feedback, and it means a lot to me! I hope I can get the sound quality issues taken care of so I can work with ya in the future!
For sure man! And yiss XLR is where it's at! You don't necessarily need to have Reaper and all of that but if you have XLR with a 2020, you're golden. Nearly every AT2020 I've seen here passes my sound/mic/quality test.