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
Before he can be arrested, Carlos is contacted by the Reaper Institute, an organisation that offers to hide him from the law in exchange for his services. He is employed to predict where deaths may occur, lead a medium to the deceased, and provide their ghosts with safe passage to the afterlife.
Together with Anaís, a young medium who is appointed as his partner, and Jeffrey, an exorcist who combats aggressive ghosts, Carlos guides spirits to the afterlife before they transform into dangerous poltergeists. Chaos ensues when Carlos encounters ghosts that refuse to go into the light.
Character List
Carlos
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Gender: Male
Age: 18 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Eighteen-year-old Carlos is plagued with visions of how people are going to die. Despite his terrifying gift and coarse personality, Carlos is a compassionate kid who will not hesitate to help those in need. Unfortunately, his altruistic personality tends to backfire on him – his kindness encourages him to save innocent people before they die, but ultimately frames him for a murder he did not commit. Lines:
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Anaís
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Gender: Female
Age: 18 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Stoic and practical, Anaís is a medium with the gift of speaking to ghosts. Coupled with her psychic powers, which enable her to conjure force fields that ward off supernatural forces, she is one of Reaper’s top agents. Independent and brave, Anaís faces deadly ghosts without beating an eyelid. Unfortunately, her occupation seems to have numbed her compassion, and she tends to forget that dangerous spirits were once living people. If she’s unsupervised, she may not hesitate to exorcise them in merciless ways. Lines:
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Jeffrey
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Gender: Male
Age: 30 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Jeffrey, the son of a famous pair of exorcists, has inherited his parents’ ability to banish the dead. Witty and humorous, Jeffrey attempts to lift his teammates’ spirits during their missions. Unfortunately, this leads him to make terrible puns. As a child, Jeffrey fear and anger drove him to exorcise innocent spirits. Eventually, the Institute taught him to control his impulses, and only unleash his powers on aggressive poltergeists. Despite his reformation, Jeffrey feels guilty about his past, and sporadically thinks about the childhood ghosts he had banished. Lines:
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Dakota
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Gender: Female
Age: 30 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Spunky and unorthodox, Dakota is a witty spirit who refuses to pass on. After several years of haunting the Institute’s headquarters, she grows bored of terrorizing their agents, and eventually decides to work in their Intel division. With the power to possess any technological object, she often dives into the Institute’s central communications system, and uses it to speak with their employees. This leads her to make witty, sarcastic remarks at her friends’ expense. 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. Carlos_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 [email protected]. Label your Email Subject as “Reaper - *your name*”.
If you have any questions, please contact our casting partner - Tiffany at [email protected].
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 – [email protected].
Please make sure that you haven’t incorrectly typed “mediacontext”.com instead.
If all else fails, please contact Tiffany at [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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!
