STELLA - Sheridan Animated Short Film
Project Overview
Stella is a film about finding your voice and standing up for yourself.
We are looking for actors to voice two female characters in our animated film production, who are willing to work collaboratively with the director to produce the best result possible.
The titular main character, Stella, is a musical performer whose career has been built on the persona created by her agency. Stella wishes to express her own musical identity, rather than the one constructed for her, but she is opposed by her manager, Kim. After a confrontation with Kim in her dressing room during a concert intermission, Stella knocks her head on her dressing mirror and passes out. In her nightmare, Stella has become the mascot she hates and Kim steals her sheet music. Stella gives chase, but in the end, she is unable to retrieve the sheet music, and is powerless to stop Kim from tearing it in half. Stella wakes up on her dressing room floor, stunned and desperate, and sees her music lying on the floor near her. With a renewed sense of urgency, Stella makes the decision to stand up for herself and take a risk for her own happiness, rather than listening to what others tell her. Returning to the stage, Stella pulls off the mascot head to face the future as her own self.
If you are able to physically be on Sheridan Trafalgar campus for recording that would be most ideal, but anyone with a good microphone can apply! Thank you so much!!
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Stella is a performer/musician who feels like she's in a creatively stagnant job. She is the main protagonist of the film. Despite her on-stage persona, she is somewhat introverted and not very confident. She is also idealistic, naive, and a pushover. In the film, she is manipulated by her manager and being sold as a brand rather than an individual. Around her manager, she is deferential, nervous, and uncomfortable. Despite that, at the end of the film, she makes a breakthrough to find her self-confidence again.
She does not have many lines but the lines that she does have make or break her character. She also has a lot of non-dialogue vocalizations, like running, struggling, etc.
She has a dream manifestation of her younger self that appears in the film and has one line.
[Desperately] Wait-- Wait! I can sing, I can do it!
Um, [breathy laugh] I was - I was just wondering if I could perform this instead?
[Younger self] (try a child's voice) I didn't want to turn out like you.
The manager, Kim, is a calculating and efficient agent for Stella. She is very composed and professional, but also cold and to-the-point. The only thing that really matters to her is how lucrative her stars are. Kim believes she knows best for her performers. She treats Stella condescendingly, and sees Stella's desire to sing her own music as just the idealistic dream of a naive child.
While Kim is not truly malicious or evil, in her manifestation in Stella's dream, Stella's mind paints her as a cruel and evil antagonist.
Stella, I thought we’d talked about this already.
(In Stella's dream manifestation) [Condescendingly] Don’t make another choice you’ll regret.
(In Stella's dream manifestation) [laughs mockingly] Go on, sing your little song.
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