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October 23rd 2009 Casting Call - ends tonight at 5PM EST

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Marc:
Hey all

If you've been following our progress, you've noticed there hasn't been much.

Unfortunately, that's because of a slew of reasons, one of them being that some voice actors have lost interest.

As such, we're giving this project a big push and opening a casting call for a bunch of major roles, the most notable being Cloud!

We'll be careful to avoid some of the pitfalls we've encountered in the past and we're going to be changing the way we do things to try and get this done ASAP.

First of all, we're going to switch from a scene based format to individual roles.  That means everyone will be responsible for their own success or failure.  The roles will also be more intensive in order for us to finish and to minimize the number of dropouts.  So we'll be asking chosen voice actors to record 50 lines a week, 5 voice actors at a time (for a total of 250 lines per week).  That's quite a lot but that means that people voicing roles will be finished with their roles in a matter of weeks instead of in a year.  That way, if people only have to record lines for a month or so, there's less chance of them dropping out.

That sound much worse than it is for most characters involved however as you'll be receiving the whole game script when you're cast and NPC's and EXTRAS won't be up until 2-3 months so NPC's will effectively have 2-3 months to record between 50 to a 100 lines.

We'll ask people to record the set of lines we've chosen and mail them to [email protected].

You can view more details at : http://voiceacting.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=16640&page=1.

Available roles are :

MAJOR ROLES
Cloud

IMPORTANT NPC
Lucrecia - Long lost love of a party member - sad - mid 30's
Zack - War Buddy of hero - early 20's - country folk
Bugenhagen - wise and old, 140 years old
Shera - "girlfriend" of a party member, takes his abuse, feels ashamed, smart - late 30's
Palmer - Shinra Executive, fat and goofy - early 70's
Godo - once proud man, now broken - father of party member - deep voiced - early 50's

MINOR NPC
Kotch - henchman, 30's
Johnny - shy man, 20's
Zangan - martial arts master, 60's
Tifa's Father - man, 40's
Priscilla - carefree young girl
Priscilla's Father - worried man, 40's
Cloud's mom - vibrant woman, 40's
choco bill - old man, 70's, country folk
choco billy - young boy, somewhat of hustler, country folk
Chole - young girl, country folk
Mukki - bodybuilder with strong gay innuendos, 40's
Ester - strong woman. country folk, 50's
Mr Coates - black man, 30's
Joe - man, country folk, 40's
Holzoff - man, 70's
Gorkii - man, 30's
Shake - kid
Chekhov - woman, 30's
Staniv - weapon master

We'll also be looking for many EXTRAS. Here's a quick sample of some of them (many are missing). Don't apply just for one extra. We'll ask VA's to do many of them.

EXTRAS
Fort Condor Guard
Father at fort condor (old man)
Son at fort condor (lookout)
Lower Junon innkeeper (old woman)
Shinra Manager (in train)
Guidebook Old geezer
Kalm Hotel Clerk (male)
Son of general store owner in nibel (long letter)
Nibel Inn Clerk (male)
Junon TV Producer (shinra parade)
Junon Assistant Director (shinra parade)
Costa Del Sol Hotel Manager
Sinra Villa Realtor (male - sleezy)
Hojo's beach bimbo
Old Man in Corel Mountain Path
Corel Village Elder
Gold Saucer Gondola Ticket lady
Assaulted lady at battle arena
Gold Saucer Guard
Sailor (male)
Chocobo (wark!)
10-15 Shinra Soldiers & Officers
General citizens (10 males, 5-6 females)

People who want only to voice extras are welcome but we'll ask you to voice more than one. Backups actors will also voice alot of these as well as Minor NPC. There might be Minor NPC missing in the list above although we've tried to be as thorough as possible. Missing roles will be voiced by the VA's already in the project.

Thanks!

death_gigas:
how long it will takes..,,?....,, it will be finished as soon as the year ends?....

Marc:
I estimate about 6 months for the whole project if everything goes smoothly.

Individual recordings will take anywhere from 1 week to 5-6 weeks (except Cloud which might be 5-6 months).

Covarr:
I'm going to record and send in auditions later tonight after I've installed Windows 7 and my house has quieted down (loud kids around, so I can't get decent recordings during the day). I'm mostly going to be auditioning for backups, as I can do a great impersonation of Quinton Flynn for Reno, and a pretty good Barret, but I'm willing to dedicate enough time to even do Cloud if I'm any good.

I didn't see any lines for the minor NPCs, extras, and backups, on that page. What do you want us to do for those?

Marc:
Since the amount of characters involved is fairly high, I didn't post lines specific to minor npcs, extras or backup.  In the script excerpt I've put up however are quite a few lines for various extras, most party members and most minor npc.  I suggest you use those.

If you want to try out for someone who doesn't have any line, jus let me know and I'll post some specific to that character.

As for Cloud, its all about having the right voice, dedication and acting skills. If you think you have those then you're more than welcome to do an audition!

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