Hi there, partner! Interested to voice our main heroine character, Sestra? [CLOSED]

[RonWidjaja]

May 1st 2012 UPDATE: We have decided on the VA who will voice our Sestra. We like to congratulate "Tomoyo Ichijouji" who got the role to voice for our Sestra. And also, thanks for all the other audition participants who have sent us their voice work sample, we really appreciate it and hope to be able to work with all of you again in the future project. :)

Also thank you very much to the VAA Forum in helping us with many talented voice actress within this forum. Thank you once again!

Godspeed;


Ronald Widjaja
Game Producer.
Faunia Rancher Team.



NOTES: We have some update! Please look at the my latest post near the bottom of this thread. Thanks.

Hi there! My name is Ronald Widjaja, a game producer from Indonesia.

Currently we have a Teaser & Game Trailer Project in which we hope to find a female VA Narrator to narrate our game Teaser and Trailer.

A little bit info on our game. Our game is called “Faunia Rancher” and is co-produced between 2 indie game studio, Joyverter Entertainment and Chowdown Games over here in Indonesia. “Faunia Rancher” itself is a ranch simulation game with a twist of Tamagochi and also adventure.

-Record in 44100hz 16-bit Stereo WAV
-Save the lines as "Sestra_yourname_linenumber.wav" (ex: Sestra_Ronald_01.wav)
-For more info about the game or sending your audition, you can either contact me, Ronald@chowdowngames.com (Ronald@chowdowngames.com) or visit our Facebook page “Faunia Rancher”
Audition Deadline is at May 1st, 2012

FEMALE

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Name: Sestra
Age: Teenage age around 15-17.
Bio: Sestra is “tutor” NPC character of our game. She is an elf cowgirl who already has a lot of experience in managing a Faunia Ranch. Her personality is a happy go lucky girl, she sound cheerful and a bit tomboyish at the same time.
Voice Type: A cheerful and tomboyish Texan cowgirl.
Narration Line can be read on this link: http://youtu.be/n7245B1QNPA


For this project, we permit you to change Sestra’s dialog line as long as it still deliver the same message from our dialog. We permit that since we are an Indonesian Game Developer and English is not our first language and we do realized that our dialog line that you can read on our teaser video there might sound a bit off and awkward.

Therefore we are fine if you change the dialog as long it will sound more natural and more “Texan”. (and since we haven’t meet any Texan accent people except in movies so that’s why we need your help. :) )

So once again, we are looking forward to work with all of you here because we have been facing difficulties to find a local Indonesian VA who could speak Texan accent English naturally and make Sestra character feel alive. And what we have found so far doesn’t sound too natural because of our people’s accent.

Therefore, thank you once again for your kind attention and Godspeed, people!

Cheers;



Ronald Widjaja
Game Producer.

[ckat13]

Just letting you know I'm interested and plan to audtion. :)

[asmithhers]

Will audition soon!

[RonWidjaja]

Thank you, ckat13 and asmithhers. Looking forward for your voice work audition soon! :)

[pickle131]

Bumping! c:

[PKEmi]

This looks really cool! I'll send an audition in the near future!

[RonWidjaja]

Thank you, Pickle131 for the bump and thanks to you too, PKEmi. :)

Looking forward for others who wish to get involve in our audition. :D

[ohnobones]

I'll audition soon ^_^

[TwoDoorCafeClub]

Okay I sent an audition :)

[RonWidjaja]

Hi, everyone!

First of all, I would like to give some update on our Trailer progress. So after our last game production meeting, we began to consider to really start on a new trailer that is going to be more focus on the "storytelling" side but still it will also show the full trailer of the gameplay as well.

In the beginning, we thought that we might just want to continue from our previous teaser trailer but at the end, it seems that we began to change our plan to totally start on brand new video with a new script as well. So since we still have time (until May 1st), we believe it is just fair to let all of you know that the dialog might get changed and honestly we also haven't start on the new script creation as well.

And so with that being said, we would like to offer you an opportunity to get involved personally on the creation of our new game trailer by helping us to create the script that will sound most natural and interesting as ever. So what we meant here is that we allow you, the VA to write your own script dialog and played the script that you created with your own voice for our full game trailer.



What can you get from helping us?
First of all, we will definitely put your name in our game credit as "Trailer's Voice Actress" and also "Trailer's Script Writer". Also we might pay you a little bit for your effort. Just a little bit though...(Please do understand that we are not a big game company but we still try our best to give the best for our game.) Also I believe that this is a rare opportunity where you can played your own script on a well made quality game trailer and I'm pretty sure you might not find such a chance too often. :)



However there are certain rules that needs to followed:
1. We will show you our new trailer's storyboard. We have prepared the story that is taken the cue from our previous teaser trailer but now the problem here is we haven't prepared for the dialog script for it yet. We will explain about the story that you can find on the bottom part of this post.

2. We would like you to help us on thinking how the dialog script will fit into our storyboard. The script itself should present some detail from our previous teaser trailer in which it should explain why the Ranchers is needed for the people on the Urd continent. By the way, We definitely appreciate it if you only write down and mentioned the most important thing only.

Meaning that, since our trailer will also have "a small orchestra" that we hired to play for our trailer's music then we would still like to have our orchestra music to become one of the trailer's highlight. We afraid our orchestra music can be ruined if from the beginning until the end, we only heard Sestra talking non-stop. And so what we hope here is that there should be a balance between the music and Sestra's dialog.

3. After the story is delivered then in the last part of the game trailer, you have to mentioned our game features. Regarding the features itself, we will tell you personally through emails. (With a note: only if you get selected as our Sestra's VA)

4. The new trailer is expected to have around 1:30-1:45 MAX minutes duration. On that time duration, the dialog should also mentioning regarding our game features while showing the gameplay trailer on the background.

5. We are hoping that you can also be flexible in changing your script as well. JUST IN CASE if we have a change on the story line for a little bit OR if we find out that some of your dialog line need some work or revision.

6. If you interested, you can send me the dialog script first to my email address at ronald@chowdowngames.com. For the voice work itself, you can just say a couple lines from the script that you made but not necessarily all of it since we just need to know whether your voice will fit for our Sestra or not. If in the end, we found that your script and your voice is fitting our requirement then we will inform you and also giving you any LATEST update on our trailer production progress. We will keeping you updated so at the end, we can finally have the correct timing for your dialog line.



Now then let's talk about the story on the trailer:

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1. It all began with our Faunia Rancher stone and the stone rolls showing a hole.
2. From inside the hole, Sestra is shown here, she is on the mission to find a Faunia eggs. On her journey, she met with "Chuppuru" (one of our monster on the game) for the first time.
3. But suddenly, a wild monster ambushed Sestra from her back direction.
4. The Chuppuru that Sestra meet calls other Faunia to help Sestra to defeat that monster.
5. After the battle, Sestra also found treasures because of the help from the Faunias.

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6. Sestra continues her journey inside the cave and then she founds a lots of Faunia eggs.
7. Finally she gets what she's looking for and she returns to her ranch and began on the breeding & taming process.
8. Start showing on the game features.

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9. Continue showing the game features.



Why are we permitting you to do this?
Well...if you read my first post then I believe you can pretty much already figured it out. We are Indonesian game developers and we did notice for our problems in trying to write a script that sounds natural, especially with all those Texas accent that we hope we can hear for our trailer. We want our trailer to be as natural and interesting as possible. We too also believe that with your own dialog script, we pretty sure that you can make our Sestra character to sounds more natural as an Elf cowgirl. We also realized that our English pronunciation isn't as perfect as those who speaks English as their First language so that's why we admit our weakness and therefore we need your help!

And so there you have it! We hope that with this format, we could get a VA who can make our Sestra character alive with her voice and of course we also believe that this way, you don't need to rely on our prepared script that might sound or feel too awkward for you. And also, who knows if our proposal here might be a dream come true for a VA who wish to played their own script using their own voice?

In the end, If you think this offer is the one for you then I'm looking forward to work with you. Thanks and have a good one, people!

Godspeed;



Ronald Widjaja.
Game Producer.

[RonWidjaja]

What kind of Texas accent that we are really looking for here?

Well maybe to give you a better picture, I believe most of you probably already know about "Jessie (http://wearemoviegeeks.com/wp-content/toy-story-3-poster-jessie.jpg)" from Toy Story, right? In the beginning, we are kinda hoping our Sestra might have a Texas accent like her since we really like how Jessie's voice and accent really portrays a female cowboy. But again, we are also consider Sestra's age who is still around 15-17 years old so we think she should have a teenager voice here.

And so we look for a teenager character with a Texas accent voice and one of our staffs found "Osaka" from Azumanga Daioh (English Dub) (http://youtu.be/Hv4_99wDNok?t=1m40s). In the Japanese version, Osaka / Kasuga Ayumu came from Osaka and so in the Japanese version, she has an osakan accent but on the english dub, she has a Texas accent.

But well if you ever watch Azumanga Daioh, then you probably know that Osaka's character is really unlike other Osakan people (who usually known to be more rowdy compare to Tokyo people). And Osaka's character is really the opposite from our Sestra too in which on the anime, Osaka is a really slow, mind scattering character while our Sestra in other hand is smart and also more lively than Osaka.

But still, I give the Osaka reference because I think her Texas accent is really wonderful and I really like how the Texan accent sounds really natural on her English dub. So just for reference but again should I remind you that I really hope when you are voicing our Sestra character, she should be more lively, tomboyish yet cute. :)

So I hope that my references above can give more details on hpw we really hope our Sestra can really sounds like.

Thanks and Godspeed, people!



Ronald Widjaja
Game Producer.

[pickle131]

Any chance this might be extended a few days? I might not be able to record until next monday. I was going to today but I hurt my voice doing a screaming line xD;

[RonWidjaja]

@pickle131 No problem. Just send it anyways. We'll be waiting. The sooner the better! Thanks! :)

[Kinkajou]

Is it okay if I record the whole teaser and send that instead of just recording every line seperately? Because there are A LOT of lines, and I would like to show you everything :')

[Tomoyo Ichijouji]

I sent you a voice clip and script draft. =)

[Bei711]

Auditions sent.

[Aibrean]

I sent mine in.

[SacredTear]

I sent my audition ^^ Can you confirm, please? Sometimes my e-mail doesn't send :(

[RonWidjaja]

May 1st 2012 UPDATE: We have decided on the VA who will voice our Sestra. We like to congratulate "Tomoyo Ichijouji" who got the role to voice for our Sestra. And also, thanks for all the other audition participants who have sent us their wonderful voice work sample, we really appreciate it and hope to be able to work with all of you again in the future project. :)

Also thank you very much to the VAA Forum in helping us with many talented voice actress within this forum. Thank you once again!

Godspeed;




Ronald Widjaja
Game Producer.
Faunia Rancher Team.