Comedy Web Series Pilot "The Big Show" [working title]
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Project Overview
Hello, everyone! This casting call is for a Comedy Web Series Pilot Production "The Big Show" [working title] which centers around a group of young performers working at an amusement park while they hope to land the big audition that will catapult them to fame and fortune.
For this casting call, we are casting for lead and featured roles. Selected applicants will be auditioned both individually and in collaborative sessions via remote (see below). All roles are in the English language.
For lead roles (+ additional lines for minor roles and retakes), pay is $40 for the pilot production. All payments are made through PayPal or Zelle.
All actors who participate will be automatically be granted auditions for further pilot productions.
DEADLINES AND AUDITIONS
The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) on Sunday, June 28th, 2020. Auditions will be scheduled on a rolling basis starting Tuesday, June 16th, 2020. We'll notify voice actors who have been cast in roles by Friday, June 19th. All lines must be turned in by voice actors by Monday, July 13th. This is a hard deadline. If you are unable to submit recordings before July 13th, please do not audition.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Expect to be warmly greeted by our Director, Steve, who has experience in audio and video production as well as casting. Whether you'll be working with other voices actors from around the globe or one-on-one with the director, all talent will receive feedback and collaboration with our Directors and writers to ensure the highest quality of performance.
For audition and rehearsal, we communicate primarily through Discord, Skype, and Google Hangouts. If you are unfamiliar with any of these applications, you can still audition, however, we strongly, strongly recommend participation through Discord as it allows actors to collaborate via remote. We've used these programs 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 from different backgrounds 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 staff.
- 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 remove the takes you do NOT want to be featured on the production.
- 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 Google Drive.
- We do occasionally ask for line re-dos, but we do this sparingly and only after great consideration.
- Lastly, we always appreciate the opportunity to work with actors long-term. We frequently return to voice actors we've worked with successfully in the past.
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Lee is an attractive, young woman who enjoys the thrill of trying new things. For Leigh at the beginning of the series, acting is the perfect opportunity to try something new and exciting and also enjoy being the center of attention but over time, she discovers great fulfillment in working with other actors and using her craft in collaboration to create something spontaneous and new. Leigh enjoys interacting with Kelsey and Erin.
The show (pause) is kind of a mess. But when the lights go up and I hear my cue, it's like I go into some other state of being. I stop being just Lee the girl who's always late and loses her phone at least twice a week and start being (pause) some other being.
[just dropped her phone into the sink with the faucet running] Oh, no-no-no-no-no-NO! [rescues phone from water, wraps it in a towel] (to phone) Oh, c'mon baby. Mommy needs you.
Kim is an attractive, young woman with a fun-loving personality and a talent for leadership and knowing what to do. Since she was a young girl, Kim has had aspirations to become a professional ballerina or dancer. She has taken the dance job to keep herself in shape and also to try something new and spontaneous, which is a nice contrast from her rigorous ballet training. She also has a good head on her shoulders and leads by example, keeping things on track during performance preparation.
(laughing, affectionate) You guys are stupid! Of course I'm in.
(serious but friendly) Hey, it's not bop-bop-bop-bop-up, it's bop-bop-bopbopbop-up! And you push your arms up like this on the last "bop". (encouraging) Yeah, that's it! It's definitely harder than the one we used to do, but I think it has a lot more (sound like, "oomph").
[on the phone] (sort of panicked, like something she has wanted to say for a long time but hasn't found the voice until now, comes out like an exploding soda can) Mom, I don't want to do the conservatory this summer! (pause) This is a dancing JOB. I get PAID to work here and dance with all of the other girls and-- of course I'm grateful! I've always been grateful! (rolls her eyes, pained) Mooooom ...
Erin is an attractive, young woman who loves to laugh and has a good sense of fairness. However, Erin also has a playful, mischievous streak that comes out as she puts a playfully wicked spin on some situations. Erin sometimes comes across as a bit self-centered and dominating, but over time the series reveals that much of Erin's prickliness is just a front for her insecurities and fears.
(sarcastic, acerbic) Yeah, no. My character carries that scene. I didn't memorize that whole speech just to have it upstaged because you can't remember the blocking.
(wicked, with delight) So during her scene, my character suddenly realized she needed to (pause) adjust her stockings. I don't care how good her performance was, I guarantee more than half the seats in that audience had no idea she was even talking. And the best part? I don't think she even realized, the poor thing. Oh, it's so good.
(frustrated, as close as Erin can come to a concession or an apology) Okay, whatever, let's just do it that way. (pause) If I had those pathetic lines to work with, I'd want to milk all the moments I could as well. (to Lee) So just do it that way.
Dan is an amiable, attractive young man who was hired because of something that happened unexpectedly during his audition. Having grown up around his successful father and uncles who emphasized practical, easily marketable skills over personal pursuits, Dan struggles with inner conflict over the need to explore other career options and his interest in self-expression. As Dan gains experience performing and working with the other performers, he learns more about his own desires and interest and about the production side of the entertainment industry as a whole.
(to his friend) You realize somebody wrote this? Like, someone actually had this whole play as an idea in their head. With no one to tell them what to say and when. (introspective) They just saw it like a movie in their head, or like a play on a stage in their imagination. Who does that?
(responding to a note advising him to say the lines of his audition as if he were talking to his father; explosive, passionate) These are not the vagabonds and ruffians you have heard about. These orphans have swept sidewalks and patched roofs and done any and all of a hundred chores all over this town! Of course they may not have the skills of a carpenter or the tools of a plumber or the eyes of the gardener. But they have shown that whatever they may lack in training they have no shortage of enthusiasm-- and the brimming-over desire to serve this community and improve life in this town for all of us. These orphans are the best of our town! Would you throw the best silver in your house away when just a bit of polish would bring out its brilliant shine!?
(overwhelmed, quietly) Uh, what's cross down house left mean?
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