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
Lucinda’s happily ever after takes a wrong turn once Cindy shows her true colours. Instead of an innocent little girl, Cindy is a raging kleptomaniac whose definition of “fun” involves robbing people blind.
Cindy wishes to break into the Royal Castle in order to steal their most priceless artefact – a slipper made of expensive Venetian glass – and frame her stepfamily for the theft. Forced to grant her request, Lucinda finds herself caught in the middle of a heist, and learns that she is the one who should be careful of what she wishes for.
Character List
Cindy
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Age: 18-20
Gender: Female Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Wily and intelligent, Cindy is far from a damsel-in-distress. Although she seems like an innocent young ingénue, her innocent persona is only used to hide the revenge-crazed kleptomaniac that she truly is. In order to change her fate, she will not hesitate to frame her rotten stepfamily for a crime, or blackmail her fairy-godmother into being her accomplice. Lines:
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Lucinda
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Age: 30
Gender: Female Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Kind and compassionate, Lucinda has a heart for those in need, and hopes to spend the rest of her career helping the downtrodden. Righteous and principled, she tends to see “good and bad” in black and white. However, these lines are blurred when she meets Cindy, who thrusts her into an adventure that challenges her moral code. Lines:
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Charles
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Age: 18-20
Gender: Male Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Charming and refined, Prince Charles is the heir to his kingdom’s throne. Given his dutiful personality, he bows to the whims of his smothering parents, and begrudgingly attends the masked ball that they have arranged to find him a bride. Although he secretly hopes that something would disrupt the event, he wasn’t prepared for the magical heist that occurs within his halls. Lines:
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Roland
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Age: 30
Gender: Male Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Sir Roland, who serves as a Captain in the Royal Guard, has been tasked to manage the castle’s security during the royal ball. Meticulous and careful, Roland has taken every precaution to ensure that the castle is well guarded. Unfortunately, his defences were not prepared to withstand Cindy’s magical strategies, and her heist threatens to end his career. Lines: (Neutral) Fret not, your majesty. We’ve stationed guards all around the vital areas of the castle. (Happy) Fair evening, my prince. Are you ready for tonight’s procession? (Sad) I failed your family, your highness. By the time the sun rises, I suspect that your father would have selected my replacement. (Angry) By the gods, she fled the ballroom on a screaming unicorn. How hard would it be to track that down?! |
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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. Charles_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 “Wishful Thinking - *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!
