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Post by Lumisau on Dec 17, 2017 23:12:13 GMT -8
Yes, it means free, but if you're new here I recommend reading the rules and reading what the sections of the forum are actually for. This is only for casting calls, not for questions - for questions regarding the forums, try Forum Help. EDIT: I have moved it to the correct section; it was initially in "Visual Unpaid".
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Post by Lumisau on Sept 29, 2017 17:51:34 GMT -8
I like the fact that the OP is trying to license a series that Sentai Filmworks has been officially licensed since 2015... Hey there, try not to necrobump threads like this unless you're the thread owner. You're technically right, but the conversation ended like six months ago.
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Post by Lumisau on Aug 27, 2017 19:30:05 GMT -8
iZotope Elements for $29, down from $129 www.izotope.com/en/products/repair-and-edit/rx/rx-elements.html - Short sale (about two days I think) Sale's over! This is one of the most powerful noise reduction plugins out there. It won't salvage a terrible recording, but it'll get closer than pretty much anything out there. This is just a very basic package but it includes most everything a VA would want for noise reduction on their own.
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Post by Lumisau on Aug 14, 2017 20:36:19 GMT -8
In this case, what I recommend is to not pay. None of the roles. Make it unpaid, with a "If we become successful/get a Patreon going, I'll be willing to pay!" I understand payment will encourage people to audition, but if you're strapped for cash I'm sure people will understand. Plenty of unpaid stuff still turns out well, and segues into paid stuff easily!
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Post by Lumisau on Aug 14, 2017 17:56:56 GMT -8
I'd say the paid section with every single role having a note as to whether they're paid or not.
I do have to ask why, though? You'll be inundated with auditions for the paid roles and only have a few auditions for the unpaid roles, and it'll likely make those who get the unpaid roles feel a little shafted. Even a token payment like $5 would be useful.
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Post by Lumisau on Aug 1, 2017 23:41:17 GMT -8
What is it you want to do VAing-wise? Do you want to be in cartoons, games, and anime? Or are you happy being in commercials and things like that? The thing about Australia is that we don't do much character work over here which isn't tied into commercials and such. We do have character classes, but they're different from what you'd see American talking about. For instance, NIDA holds some things. If you're into anime-type stuff, what you can do is do online classes with an American coach, buuuuut that'll usually be at ludicrous times like 3am.
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Post by Lumisau on Jul 2, 2017 1:40:02 GMT -8
That's good that you've noticed it. Next time you make an audition, play with those sliders so you do not sound over-processed (too much), or like there's too much background noise (too weak). If it is at the sweet spot, it is more likely you will be cast because you sound more professional. If you mess it up, it will be less likely you will be cast.
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Post by Lumisau on Jul 1, 2017 20:43:40 GMT -8
These are the sliders I'm talking about to make it stronger or weaker. You can use the preview button to see if it's not strong enough, too strong, or right in the sweet spot. If you don't see these, maybe download a newer version of Audacity - but even older versions had at least one slider.
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Post by Lumisau on Jun 30, 2017 22:21:29 GMT -8
Yeah, but Audacity can do it too. It's not like there's only one setting. You can make the noise removal stronger or weaker, and it needs to be weaker in this case. It makes your audio quality sound just as bad as if you did no noise removal, if the noise removal you did is too strong.
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Post by Lumisau on Jun 30, 2017 21:45:07 GMT -8
You're usin' way too much noise removal, buddy; you've crossed the drowning robot threshold. It needs to be at such a level you can't hear background noise but you can't hear much, if any effect on your voice itself. It does take a bit of tweaking to find the sweet spot.
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Post by Lumisau on Jun 20, 2017 20:55:20 GMT -8
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Post by Lumisau on Jun 12, 2017 1:55:51 GMT -8
Gotta go to a hub city, man, unless you're in a large city elsewhere and happy doing local commercials. Online stuff is more of an income supplement than an income in of itself.
The thing is that as far as I can tell, online auditions for real and big projects are becoming more and more popular, you're still going to need to do the actual, final performance in a place where the audio director can control 100% of equipment and environmental factors and ensure they're the same for every VA. Home booths can be completely fine and most online-focused projects only really require you have no echo and a mic better than a vanilla Yeti, but that's because they (the projects) are not tweaked to perfection. A small part of me (who spent four straight days plus two in a post-sound booth editing final uni film sound) thinks the desire to have everything 100% perfect and the same is slightly pretentious-audiophile but I also have tinnitus so my ears aren't an entirely reliable source. I'm personally trying to figure out ways around this, as an Australian - I'd really rather not move overseas (and deal with the increasingly complex hassle around actually doing so) and spend tens of thousands of dollars for a dream. But the complete and honest answer for the moment is that you need to be in LA, NYC, or Texas to be in the sorta stuff which is shown on TV and sold in stores.
If you want to get more specific it seems the Burbank area in LA is the best, and in Texas you'd want the Forth Worth area for your Funimation animu dub needs. I have no idea about NYC because I'm not interested in that area myself. But this is coming from a foreigner.
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Post by Lumisau on Jun 9, 2017 0:13:36 GMT -8
This is a totally unprofessional opinion here, since I haven't been around the deeper pro level stuff that much. But I personally find that unless it's a bigger audition where the casting director can expect auditions in the hundreds through email, it sort of seems like a waste of time and space. Especially on sites where things are better organised than a folder of .wavs - like, I've seen people slate on CCC and you can see their username and what character they're going for at a glance. I personally just wanna hear the audition, and I'd assume a lot of casting directors would too.
Since slating is uncommon online, I find few amateurs really know how to do it. People get into the rambling kind of slate because they think that's what you've gotta do and you just sorta turn off their audition. I've been taught "Name, [for] character[, take if needed]". I guess people need to learn it's like a demo reel, where if you bore the casting director they're not going to be willing to sit through it all. But... people who do this kinda thing usually don't know about that, either. I think the world needs some more good online VA tutorials like the soulbrothanumbuh3 series (though a little less caustic even if I totally relate to that).
So basically I'm of the "slate if I'm asked to, but don't if there's nothing in the audition guidelines" persuasion.
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Post by Lumisau on May 17, 2017 23:48:28 GMT -8
I mean, we're all doing silly voices, screaming at the top of our lungs, saying strange things... it's no surprise we'd have a few embarrassing incidents over our careers. What are yours?
For me, it was when I was new to university and trying to find a good recording space. The music department should have some soundproof rooms, right? So there I am at 8pm, recording some lines for a game, where I get up to the part where my character is kidnapped in front of the hero. Naturally, my character calls for help. I'm recording, and a few minutes later I hear a knocking at the door. Outside are a few concerned music kids, worried for the person who's yelling "Help me!" in several different ways. Whoops. Room wasn't soundproof at all.
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Post by Lumisau on May 17, 2017 0:46:12 GMT -8
I was always interested, but what sparked the idea of me actually pursuing it was when I was in after-school drama classes and instead of normal plays and improv performances, we were going to do radio plays. I was super-excited. We were given a bunch of scripts of old, classic radio plays, and my group chose The Hitch-hiker. Since I was the most enthusiastic, I got to be the lead+narrator and the other two in my group were the extras. It was a live performance, with our classmates and family in a different room to the mic setup. And it was exhilarating to perform. Now, with all the skill I have developed over the past eight years I'm sure if I listened back I'd cringe. But when my teacher opened the door, his eyes wide, saying "Wow... just wow", I knew the bug had bitten me. Then a few months later I was looking up Haruhi Suzumiya genderbend stuff and someone had made a radioplay about it on this site called the VAA. I joined the site. Tadaa.
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