As a part of our Young Artists' Initiative, MediaContex will work with its partners to create a pilot of an audiodrama of our students' original idea:
Synopsis
In order to fight crime with his newfound powers, Diego reconnects with his father, Turbo. He admits that he had to dismiss his previous sidekick, and appoints Diego as their replacement.
Unfortunately, Diego’s dream job is ruined once he discovers that Turbo only fights crime for clout and money. Moreover, he uses his influence to ensure that the rich stay in power, so that they can continue to exploit the city’s poor community.
Together with Novablast, an ex-sidekick who Turbo had framed in order to protect his reputation, Diego devises an unorthodox plan against the city’s corrupted elite. He poses as Lightspeed, a supervillain who steals from Turbo’s wealthy allies, and distributes his gains to citizens who have been wronged.
Character List
Diego
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Age: 18
Gender: Male Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Optimistic and visionary, Diego is a student activist who wants to change the world. Chivalrous and compassionate, Diego has a heart for others, and willingly helps those in need. At first, Diego has a strict code of “right and wrong”. However, his rigid moral perspectives are challenged when he finds out that his hero is a fraud, and he decides to address his city’s wide income gap by distributing stolen assets to the poor. Lines:
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Janet
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Age: 19
Gender: Female Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Dependable and trustworthy, Janet is Diego’s best friend and confidant. She is the only civilian who knows about his powers, and loyally helps him keeps his identity a secret. Given that Janet is an aspiring journalist, she is aware of her city’s income gap. Although she isn’t thrilled that Diego is pursued by the cops, she appreciates how his plan can help the disadvantaged. She uses her knowledge about the city to plan Diego’s heists, and devises strategies to help him evade the authorities. Lines:
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Turbo
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Age: 30
Gender: Male Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Charismatic and confident, Turbo is regarded as his city’s greatest superhero. Unbeknownst to its citizens, Turbo frames individuals from disadvantaged communities as criminals, and falsely arrests them so that he can collect the cash reward for “saving the day”. Calculative and mercenary, Turbo uses his reputation to ensure that his wealthy allies stay in office. However, his plan hits a road bump once Diego proves to be a supervillain who he may not be able to defeat. Lines:
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Novablast
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Age: 30
Gender: Female Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Novablast, who has the power to generate supersonic blasts, was once an aspiring hero who started her career as Turbo’s sidekick. Assertive and vocal, Novablast threatened to reveal Turbo’s lies to the public if he did not improve his behavior. This caused Turbo to fire her, and he ruined her reputation in order to discourage other heroes from working with her. Although Novablast insists that she cares about her city, her past experiences have hardened her heart. This causes Diego to question if she sincerely wants to help the disadvantaged, or if she only wants revenge against her former employer. Lines:
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Audition Deadline
Audition Requirements
- High quality recording. No pops, clicks or buzzes.
- Save the lines as “CharacterName_FirstLast_linenumber.mp3” (e.g. Diego_FrankL_01.mp3).
- Place lines in a zip/rar folder labeled “CharacterName_YourName_Audition” before emailing.
- Send your audition, your name, and email you wish us to contact you with, to admin@mediacontex.com. Label your Email Subject as “Lightspeed - *your name*”.
If you have any questions, please contact our casting partner - Tiffany at hello@story-sight.com.
Rates will be discussed if you are shortlisted for the role.
If you have further questions, please refer to the FAQ section below.
Thank you for your support!
FAQ
Each project has its own budget, requirements, and plans for distribution. If you are cast for any of these roles, you'll be contacted by our casting representative, and will be able to negotiate your rates with them.
If you are cast, your clips will be used for internal pitching purposes. If you are cast, our students will use your clips to create pilot episodes, which will be showcased to our network of producers.
Your audition clips will not be used without your permission.
If this project generates enough funding and support from our network, we will broadcast our pilot materials to the public. Until then, selected voice actors will be paid for their work, and they will be credited in our internal pitching materials.
We are generating pilot materials for internal pitching purposes, and are currently unable to publicly disclose the cast list.
If we are able to generate enough funding and support to make this project public, we will disclose a full list of our cast and crew. Until then, our cast and crew will be paid for their work, and they will be credited in our internal pitching materials.
Please ensure that you’ve sent your clips to the right email – admin@mediacontex.com.
Please make sure that you haven’t incorrectly typed “mediacontext”.com instead.
If all else fails, please contact Tiffany at hello@story-sight.com for assistance.
Of course! We keep all of our auditions on record. Even if you aren’t cast for this project, we’ll contact you about future opportunities.
Alternatively, you may contact us at admin@mediacontex.com and tell us what your preferred accent is. We’ll let you know if any VA opportunities come up.
If a character has a "Standard American" accent, we'd like you to use a typical General American accent for all of your lines.
Sorry, friend. Auditions will be closed after the deadline we've listed. However, we'll regularly update our auditions page with new projects, and you won't be short of opportunities.
You're welcome to submit 1-3 takes per line. Compile all of your takes for each line into a single file.
Label each line according to their line number. If there are four lines for your character, you should have four files in total.
Sure. Please separate each character’s lines into separate ZIP folders, and label each file as:
“CharacterName 1_YourName_Audition”
“CharacterName 2_YourName_Audition”
You may include all of your files in the same email. Label your email subject as: "[CharacterName1], [CharacterName 2] _YourName_Audition”
We're always looking for new talent. Feel free to share your demo reel, profile, website, etc. in your audition email.
If you're shortlisted for our roles, you'll hear back from us approximately 2-5 days after the audition deadline has passed.
Please don't hate us if we don't send you a reply. Due to the number of auditions we receive, we may not be able to respond to each email. However, we appreciate your submission, and we hope that you'll continue to support our projects!
Unfortunately, MediaContex's team has a lot on their plate, and we may not be able to deliver feedback to individual VAs. However, we're very grateful to you for reaching out, and we hope that you'll continue to support our projects!
