Producers whos self cast themselves

[Erica]

Within reason. I've had a few auditions that I've run (nothing took off, foo) where I would cast myself in a role I felt I could play, however opened the auditions to other people in the chance circumstance that someone had a better voice or acting ability (not hard, heh) than me. I'd also listen for the voice quality in other auditions that I received to.

What I'm saying is that you shouldn't necessarily close off certain roles just because you want to play them. As a producer, you should be looking for the best person to portray the role; sometimes that won't always be you.

No offense, but that's kind of dumb D:

I find it even more annoying when people are like "Oh, well, I want to play this character so I'm selfcasting, but I'll hold auditions to see if I can find someone who's better.."

That just shows that people have no self confidence in their abilities in my opinion. So what if you're not exactly right for the character? It's a matter of experimenting with you voice and not to mention it give you some practice. If people think you suck as that certain character, then you'll most likely get a critique saying so with a list of things you could improve on. It's like a learning experience.

And what if you don't find someone you like to replace you? Then not only does that make you seem like you're better than the auditionees, but it's also wasting their time.


So like I said, if you're taking the time to mix, you have EVERY RIGHT to cast yourself as whoever you want. Main or extra.

No producer that opens auditions here is a professional so EXTREME PROFESSIONAL MEASURES do not have to be taken into accord. If you want to selfcast DO IT. If you don't, then that's your choice AS THE PRODUCER, you know?

But complaints like this are part of the reason why I just scout people for clips lately :/

Online voice acting is such srs bizniz.

[Sheepmage]

Yeah, opening an understudy for a part you're self-casting has got to be the most annoying thing to those people who wish to audition for your production.

[Erica]

i think this is fine to sometimes if the really want to be this carater in a dub but no one is hosting auditions they may make their own so they could do that part but if in all of you productions you self cast i think that is a little overboard ya' know

...what?

Use punctuation, please @_@;

[Sheepmage]

To each their own, Erica. You have your opinion, I have mine; I don't really appreciate you calling it stupid, though.

[Erica]

Eek. Sorry. Let me rephrase myself.


Ok. Yeah, ideally you want to find the best person for the role. But not all the best people are going to audition your project.

So hypothetically, say you opened auditions for.. oh... a Bleach fandub. And you REAAAALLY wanted to be Orihime but instead you leave the auditions open to see what kind of auditions you rake in.

By the end of the deadline you get about 5 auditions... that aren't so great. (which would never happen since we have a lot of great Orihimes here, but yeah, just pretend) And you know that you could have done a better job; what do you do then? Cast a crappy Orihime or selfcast at the last minute?

It's all about taking risks, really. And not everyone is going to agree with your decision.

[Sukisho]

Yeah, opening an understudy for a part you're self-casting has got to be the most annoying thing to those people who wish to audition for your production.

I don't see anything wrong with that. What if you get sick and want the project done instead of waiting to be better? What if you feel that you can't pull off the character after all? Or what if you just want to see if there's someone else that does it better then you think you can? There's lots of reasons people cast themselves and then hold an understudy, cause you never know what may come up.

[Miki-Chan]

Honestly, the three radio plays that I've been working on have me cast in all of them. Why? Because they have all been around since I first began voice acting (yeah, it's been taking *that* long) and I was trying to get exposure at the time. Now, I like the characters so much and I've done too much to recast myself.

Well maybe that sounds selfish. But I really don't care if someone self-casts themself unless they take multiple main characters for one clip, but you know, that happens sometimes. Now, if they take all the characters because they think they're amazing (and they're not), that's a different story than, say, people who take over for someone who dropped at a second's notice.

I agree with Erica. It's a risk-taking thing depending on amount of auditions, quality and talent in the auditions, etc. Not everyone will be happy with the outcome, but it's ultimately the producer's own decision.

[Batgirl]

Honestly thre is nothing I hate more than auditioning for a role and THEN have it be self cast. If you're going to cast yourself. Cast yourself. If you're going to hold auditions, hold auditions. Don't lead people on and then just self cast. Not that you may ACTUALLY BE INTENDING to lead people on, but thats what you're doing.

I've self Cast in every production I've ever run, as main characters no less (albiet my character in Okage never saw the light of day). I'm putting in the hours and hours to make something come to light. I'm the director, its my story, if I wanna play whatever character I want, I can, like Erica said, its my right.

Heck, If I want to make a Radio play and I want to play a 50 year old man, thats my right. Now, I'll also have to take criticism when I release it and people go "why the hell are you playing a 50 year old man, I definitely don't think that voice fits". But I can still do whatever I want cause its my project.

Now if YOU want it YOUR way, you can put in all the time and effort to earn the same right.

Maybe its not a fair view of the whole thing, but its a true one. No matter how many people complain about self casting, it will always exist for that reason.


And I think I'm a damn good Oracle. So there XP.

[fruitfly]

How "professional" do you want to be?

Here's the deal: If you self-cast a main role, there are people that will say that's unprofessional. Mostly people who wanted to play the role themselves. They'll wait for it to come out and scrutinize your performance. They'll brag to their friends about how much better they would have been. But, you got to play a character that you love in a series that you're interested in. So you had fun, right?

In the world of amateur voice acting, it all comes down to how much you care about what other people think (actually, a lot of things are like that.) Take your criticism when it's constructive, but do what you want with your own dubs.

As for the old "I selfcast this role, but I am opening it for auditions" thing.. yeah, I never audition for those characters. It seems like more of a "I really want to play this role but I'm going to say it's still open-ish so people don't hate me" move. Guess what -- when you selfcast that character at the end, people are still going to bitch that you didn't give them fair consideration. Might as well get it over with in the beginning.

[Kae-chan]

^^;;; I put it this way. If you honestly think you can bring the characters voice to justice go ahead. But...selfcasting yourself 3 roles or more is...not good if I may say.