LEADS AND READS - WEEK OF 08/20 thru 08/26

Erik Sheppard

Ta-da.

Scott Pollak · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007, 18:25 (GMT) Post subject:

Did anyone else get contacted by an indy film "Payne and Redemption" to do a gratis La Fontaine read for them? I only submitted because I have a weak spot in my heart for indy filmmakers and they promised me credit, so you never know who might hear my voice on the trailer. Just wondering if anyone else got the same private lead?

Here's a brief clip....

Erik Sheppard · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007, 18:33 (GMT) Post subject:

Not I.

Pretty nice Don read, Scott.

Amanda Geyer · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007, 20:35 (GMT) Post subject:

Be a-feared. I'm singing, again.

I'm a total pushover when it comes to a chance to sing.

...now, this is annoying. I hear the hiss after I've uploaded it here (listening to it in Preview mode), but I never hear it when I'm playing it after MP3-ing it on my home systems. Gah! It's with layering the parts, because the hiss reduces as the voices are removed...

Kim White · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 02:55 (GMT) Post subject:

It sure is quiet in here...

This is a 2-part audition... I'm just reading the female part, and the announcer at the end. Thanks for input!

Amanda Geyer · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 04:04 (GMT) Post subject:

I did that one too, Kim! I read all of it, because it was just so bleepin' fun.

Robert Jadah · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 04:23 (GMT) Post subject:

Insipid though the ostensibly natural chat was, I stabbed at it, too.

It's more fun, though, with two actual voices.
Kim, wanna go for a drive with me?

Voices On!

Anthony Williams · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 04:58 (GMT) Post subject: Love film

Well here is the Atistic love film by erlingmark. they had me do a second take on this one

LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED!! and i was told to use the f word during this second take because thats the way they wanted to express the emotion

Robert Jadah · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 05:49 (GMT) Post subject:

THE ABOVE AUDITION CONTAINS OBSCENE LANGUAGE AND MALE OOMPH. LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED....
You don't post nearly often enough, Anthony....I mean, you are unique.

It took me a long ten seconds to get into your delivery. But you cooked, Tony...you seethed. I couldn't do that in a thousand takes. Way to bring it home.

(I'd only suggest that you keep an ear out for your habit of starting each and every phrase with emphasis and volume. Spread it out a bit for effect, maybe.)

Williams On!

Maxine Dunn · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 05:58 (GMT) Post subject:

Kim White · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 13:18 (GMT) Post subject:

Robert, thanks for the dance! I was hoping someone would take on the role of my husband... daunting as that task may be... Smile

Amanda, I couldn't open your file for some reason.

Scott Pollak · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 14:29 (GMT) Post subject:

Tony... my bro'!

Man, I've missed hearing your posts here. You've been a scarce commodity. I got rated - I think - a 1 star by that client. Your voice is really well-suited for that, and while the F word doesn't bother me (even though I do NOT use it in daily life) you gotta wonder why they want to use it so much in this piece. Sometimes authors replace content with shock value. In the piece I posted at the top of this thread, the Payne & Redemption movie trailer piece, I had one line I had to read for them with the F word in it "He's lost his F****** mind!" and it felt really odd to read it.

Anyway, thanks for sharing this and I hope you get the gig! You deserve it!

Anthony Williams · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 16:09 (GMT) Post subject: hi

Hi Guys,

Again I apologize for the "f" word in this take they asked me to do . It is something I do not use in my everyday language.

Robert,

Thanks for your compliments and comments and taking the time to listen. Doing this second take did kinda make it a little uncomfortable in that I have four little boys here at home and I do not use that type of language around them less known in everyday life.

Maxine,

Sorry about the shock Value on the "f' word . I had to try and separate myself and do what was asked of me professionally according to the clients needs. I will be sure to warn just in case anything happens to me like that again.

Scott,

Thanks for that, its good to see others that have been through the shock value of what the client asked for as well. When looking at the scenes from the movie and what the client was trying to portray. The pictures alone made you feel as if you were there in that moment. It allowed me to put myself in the moment emotionally to say the words the way i did.

Again I apologize to anyone offended by the language I had to express from the author

Sincerely

Kara Edwards · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 18:25 (GMT) Post subject:

Ladies, I enjoyed your Volkswagen auditions! Just for fun, here was mine...

Colin Campbell · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007, 18:46 (GMT) Post subject:

Cira and I on the VW spot.... Got a little carried away. Fun copy.