May I make a few suggestions?
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AprilAccording to your post you have my audition lines but haven't bothered to Listen to them.
That means me (and 3 others) reposting is moot.
You won't get anything done right by doing it "fast".
To quote Goober: "That is indicative of poor mod management."
You have a page full of actors that were willing to help, yet only ONE had actually (officially) gained a role?
I'd start by listening to the 4 people you missed for evaluation and then making decisions of the 18 total, formerly available people..
Make you're decisions from what you had available and Contact each one to say "I'd really like you for X role, are you still available?". If so they get that role, if not, you're recasting it and remove their name from the list immediately.
It's not cool to have people send stuff in and then get left twisting in the wind.
It makes them feel like you don't care, have not actually bothered to consider them at all, or have no mod management.
Casting lines should never be touted out in the beginning unless you're doing a project with universally known roles (ie everyone knows "Kirk" is in it for example).
Audition lines should be something like:
Pilot chatter -
Command personnel -
Political minion -
ect, you see utterly generic.
That way you don't have 50 people trying to get the same
named role.
I was flattered when I heard someone like my line for character-X, but I bet everyone else who went out for it was kinda miffed when the Voice coordinator said that publicly when like 5-7 other people just got done auditioning for it on the same page.
If you do make a "cast list" public, then you need to keep it updated and when a role is taken, remove it from the list. There is no reason to say the name of the actor doing that role at this point.
You contact them privately and congratulate them, and confirm if they are indeed still interested in
committing to that role.
When they reply affirmative, then you send them the script of all their lines (to be submitted to you as soon as possible).
Individual, specific roles should only be touted out
if a voice actor had to drop from the project due to whatever reason.
By this point you should have the VA's hard at work recording their lines (for example, my usual turn around time is about a Week) and any roles they have been dropped are publicly recast due to expediency, "We are almost finished, but do to issues, we lost actors for these roles and need to recast": List the specific missing roles then...
[You also need to listen to new submitted work and send messages indicating revisions or tone/timing/pronunciation problems you need your VA to address on that work.]
You post on Page 1 is most unhelpful.
"2/08/10 - Current Received List added to initial topic. (Blue = received but not discussed. Yellow = received AND discussed. Green = landed a role. Red = dropped out of the cast list.)"
So from all the names listed, how many of those ("received and discussed") would you actually USE, and how many of them would you throw out? I think that would be the
priority before you adhoc have people re-audition just for the sake of re-auditioning.
Especially if you never intended to use any of them in the first place!
That's just cruel and ethically wrong...
Someone sees a typical project VA request and then makes an audition line and posts it.
Project member
much later posts: "We had an issue could everyone please repost?"
Hopeful VA reposts and eventually gets a email saying, "With all due respect, we don't feel the work is suitable for our mod at this time, best wishes,,,X."
You just strung a perspective VA along for possibly 2 years or more (just an example) and then made them repost an audition, when they were never going to be used by the project in the first place... Damn.
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1.) Pick a member of your "team" and make them
responsible for all VA work.
2.) Go through you archives for any existing auditions and listen to them and make decisions and contact those people...
3.) Re-evaluate your needed VA roles, X-Major, X-Minor amount, and indicate that you need that many slots still filled.
4.) Receive and listen to submitted auditions in a
timely manner.
5.) Debate them, make cast decisions, and then
contact those people!
IMHO that's how you best incorporate VA work into a mod.
And that's assuming your mod is even READY for VA work at that time.
It's not a good idea to try to cast for a mod that isn't even finished yet unless you need placeholder lines, and those the mod development team can provide themselves to replacement later...
The handling of VA's is probably the most public face of any mod effort and can make a big impression as to: (This is a serious minded production), versus, (This is just a thrown together thing).
Sorry if this sounds a little harsh or may influence my own "chances", but I felt those things needed to be said in the best interest of the community.
