INTRODUCTION
Hello, everyone! This casting call is for Season 1 of "Chucky Chicken and his Barnyard Friends."
We're casting for a slew of voices to be used throughout the season. Folks cast for main roles will be asked to provide lines for additional, smaller roles that are non-recurring in the series. If you're not cast for a main role, and your voice matches the tone of the show, we may ask you to provide lines for supporting roles in the production.
All roles are in the English language. Voice actors must be comfortable using the language/vernacular of the time.
For main roles (+ additional lines for minor roles and retakes), we're paying between $30-$50 for the project. All payments are made through PayPal or Zelle.
We also showcase all of our voice actors on our website. The showcase includes voice actors photo, biography, contact information and links to a demo reel. Voice actors are also listed verbally in the credits of each show.
SERIES OVERVIEW
“Chucky Chicken” is an animated nod to the Golden Age of theatrical cartoons,ranging anywhere between 7 to 11 minutes in length, and puts the lead characters in different roles and environments to tell a variety of stories. Like Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny before them, the gang can be cast in a number of different roles, interact with a plethora of villains, and their adventures can take place in many different lands, times, or eras.
The shorts rely heavily on slapstick comedy, including dynamite, anvils, and other classic WB troupes; however much like the Looney Tunes, they know that they’re actors, and may occasionally use meta humor and break character to showcase their displeasure with the script, story, role, etc. This way, it harkens back to the era of Hollywood animated shorts, and can also play off modern troupes like streaming services, YouTube subscribers, social media, etc.
The show is an animated comedy series geared towards families with children between the ages of 8 and 12, and showcases a broad range of humorous situations that showcase his pluck and occasional awkwardness, along with his long-beloved charm and good heartedness.
DEADLINES AND AUDITIONS
The deadline for auditions is May 1, 2021. There are currently no plans to extend this deadline, however if we need to, we hold the right to extend or cancel. We'll notify voice actors who have been cast in roles by April 30th and send scripts to voice actors as we complete them. Once you receive the script for each episode, a record date and time will be scheduled.
If you need a better idea of what kind of voices we're looking for per character, here's a link to our Chicken Head Canon video:
https://youtu.be/aglvIsHJUo8
Again, this is what we're looking for, but we're always willing to hear your take on it, as long as it's in the ball park.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Expect to be warmly greeted by Michael Cook, the creator of Chucky Chicken. At this point, you'll be part of our Valley Studios family, where you'll get to interact with other voice actors from around the globe, all of whom offer a wealth of experience and knowledge. You’ll also be added to our Production Thread on Facebook as well as our Discord Server.
We communicate primarily through Discord and Facebook. If you are unfamiliar with either of these applications, you can still audition, however, we strongly, strongly recommend participation through Discord so that you can collaborate with your fellow voice actors. We've used Discord and Facebook with other projects and it has been of immense value.
WHAT WE ASK OF YOU
First and foremost, have fun -- we take pride in bringing together talents in different mediums to create something truly phenomenal, but none of it means anything if the people involved aren't passionate about their craft.
Please submit clean recordings on prosumer mics (no air conditioners in the background, no fans -- we don't mind performing noise reduction on your files, however too much clean-up reduces the quality of your voice). And speaking of clean-up -- please let us handle the post-production. Don't add effects to your lines -- leave that to our audio geniuses :)
Feel free to cut your lines to your best/favorite takes. Three is the gold standard. We have a few voice actors that would rather give us more takes, and that's okay, too. However please at least remove the takes you don't want to be featured on the podcast.
Please submit your recordings as one .wav file to our company email address, which will be provided to you after casting. If a file is too large to submit via email, we prefer to use WeTransfer.
We do occasionally ask for line re-dos, but we do this sparingly and only after great consideration - we realize your time is valuable, and we won't ask for anything we can't work around in edits.
Lastly, since we are planning on multiple seasons of Chucky Chicken, we 'd like to cast people who will be able to stick with us for a while. We're incredibly proud of the cast we've formed over the years, and when starting a new project, we frequently return to voice actors we've worked with in the past.
WHO ARE WE?
Valley Studios Media is an organization of film makers and animators in the midwest of the USA who strives to bring together artists from different mediums to create new and unique stories.
