As a part of our Young Artists' Initiative, MediaContex will work with its partners to create a pilot of a visual novel of our students' original idea:
Synopsis
Once she meets Prince Christopher, the dashing hero of the story, Lydia discovers that her tiara has the ability to send her home. Instead of using its magic to return to reality, Lydia crowns herself as the princess of this fictional world, and uses her powers to torment its inhabitants.
Together with Robin, a chivalrous knight, and Queen Beatrice, the kingdom’s noble ruler, Christopher must return Lydia to her world before she destroys theirs.
Character List
Lydia
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Gender: Female
Age: 17 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Lydia is a girl who dreams of adventure, and she seizes the day with an iron fist. Confident and brave, Lydia acts before she thinks, and she spontaneously embraces her new life in the fairytale with open arms.
Lydia uses her boisterous personality to hide her fear of abandonment. She yearns for companionship, but she feels unworthy of love, and hopes that her time in this fairytale will allow her to rewrite her story. Lines:
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Christopher
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Gender: Male
Age: 18-25 Accent: British is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Dashing and brave, Prince Christopher has faced his fair share of danger. However, nothing has prepared him for the crazy girl who takes his kingdom by storm, and whose magical powers force him into submission.
Fuelled by his loyalty to his people, Christopher uses his wits to temper Lydia’s insanity. Given his timid and gullible nature, he may have trouble asserting himself, but he gradually learns to stand up to this sorceress for the good of his people. Lines:
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Robin
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Gender: Male
Age: 18-25 Accent: British is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Sir Robin is Christopher’s royal knight, attendant and best friend. His sense of duty drives him to tolerate Lydia, even though her brazen personality makes this task very difficult.
Most of the time, Robin is mild-mannered and calm. However, when his limits are tested, he tends to lose his temper, and he makes reckless decisions. Regardless of his impulse, he strives to become a better person and protector for his kingdom. Lines:
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Cordelia
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Gender: Female
Age: 30-40 Accent: British is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Regal and elegant, Queen Cordelia is her kingdom's respected monarch. Her people regard her as a trusted leader, who keeps their best interests at heart.
Although Queen Cordelia is noble and kind, she is not afraid to be ruthless to those who threaten her kingdom. Lydia might be a teenage girl, but Cordelia recognises her as a threat, and will stop at nothing to take her down. 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. Christopher_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 “Royal Pain - *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.
Thank you for your support!
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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 1-2 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!
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.
