I am considering to produce an audio play of "White Feathers". I want to do sth "audioactive" again o_o

But it seems as if you get the biggest audience when you put things on youtube rather than anything. So there could be visuals as well.

I think sth like Darklings Kana in flash would take too long. I dont even know a good... uhm, "drawer"? I guess I could get speakers pretty quick, but visuals would be secondary - for me.

Any thoughts? Want to speak Yukio? =D


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Well, obviously I can't play Nanoka, but maybe I could play Omura. I'm nowhere near as smooth as he is, though. =)

I could probably play Sato quite easily, however. =P

My main concern would be getting the script right, and making sure that the eventual actors understand their roles. In the RP, we're the actors and the director for our own characters. It would probably be weird hearing someone else play 'my' Nanoka, for example, just as someone playing Makie might not capture the character as you imagine her.

*looks around* can I hear Seriously-chan from somewhere?

^_^

This can certainly be directed. While I would strive for a certain genuiness of our characters, we might need to compromise a little. But still we can do casting and ask them to retake certain lines if we are not happy with them.

I would do Shiro ^_^q "wish shome German accshent"

My concern is, if to rewrite the posts in a script to make them more fitting for an audio play, or keeping them basically the way they are - as we have no restrictions of how to make it.

There could be a narrator describing the surroundings e.g.

LOL, the problem with the idea of me playing the voice of anyone in the RP is that people would wonder why Omura-sensei or Sato-sensei had an Australian accent. =)

I guess the approach to an audio play would have to be carefully considered. There would have to be some sort of arc to it, so we'd probably end up adapting what we've written and turning it into a more traditional sort of narrative.

My initial instinct was to have Nanoka as the narrator, but she isn't in all of the scenes. Plus it would be confusing to have Nanoka as narrator and a character in the scenes (unless we put echo or something behind her as narrator - but we'd need that for internal thoughts anyway).

So yes, we'd need someone to narrate it. Now, for some reason, my instinct is to have the narrator be the same person who'll eventually play Zenzo, though of course the actor will have to act more uncertain and bumbling to play Zenzo.

Or, if the actress for Makie or Nanoka is versatile enough to do distinctively different voices, she could be the narrator as well as playing her character.

actually why not having the accents? it's 1) for fun and 2) a story written by an Australian and US-American and a German about people in Japan o_0 *shrugs*

You might want to add some info about Omura if you do not want to play him yourself. My question would be, do you have a decent microphone?

Of course we would now have to re-interweave the dialogues, that we have inevitably separated in our posts.

Can you elaborate on the idea of Zenzo as a narrator please. Would he be telling the story? it's an interesting aspect to have the characters of the story telling it, but then we would need to know kind of why, or where is it going, but we do not know, neither do we really want to know =D

I think of episodes of 10 or 20 minutes each, perhaps the narrator could change: one Episode female, the other male and so on.

Well, to be honest, I don't know how Australian my accent really sounds. It's probably quite mild in comparison to some extreme examples (Paul Hogan or the Crocodile Hunter, for example). I still feel that it would be strange to have Omura-sensei speaking in an Australian accent, though. =)

Omura-sensei is meant to be something of an enigma, since he's currently still a suspect in the "who's stalking Nanoka?" mystery. However, as is obvious from my portrayal of him in the RP, he's a well-spoken man who is rarely caught off-guard, but still doesn't seem sleazy or oily as some fast-talkers do.

I didn't really think that 'Zenzo' would be the narrator - just that the actor who portrays Zenzo could also be the narrator. It's also possible that we could just get someone completely separate to be the narrator, rather than alternating narrators from episode to episode.

What kind of accent would he be supposed to have? A Japanese one?

As I cannot much separate the english accents anyway iwould go for what sounds best to me, and that would be more the voice and the feeling it transfers, than the accent.

You may add your descriptions for the desired voices in my audition request post i nthe other topic.

I think it would probably be immediately noticeable to American listeners (as an example) if Omura-sensei walked in and had an Australian accent. It might serve to drag the audience out of the story.

I've added some notes for Omura, Nanoka and Futaba to your voice casting post.

Ah, I understand... "Us-American english is better english"...

Let me tell you this, my US-American girlfriend - yes, she must be kind of... *shrug* weird or something - she gets turned on when I speak with a "heavy German" accent. Which I personally find an exhausting and stupid thing to do, because it feels like mockery to speak in that way. She added, that she had talked to other girls and they aggreed that "accents" are sexy ( ;

They refered to French, Italian, Russian and German... maybe not Australian? ^_^ definately not Chinese.

LOL, I don't suffer from a sense of cultural inferiority. I'm just thinking in terms of immersion. I think people expect a certain homogeneity of accents (all American, all British, etc) in order to suspend disbelief.

The Arcon-IX model is sold in Germany, right, so that justifies Shiro's accent. It would be more difficult to justify why Omura-sensei had a foreign accent.

And I would be deeply disturbed if American women found Australian accents sexy. I think both Americans and Australians are likely to think that European accents are exotic.

ok, as i do the production you are out as a speaker ~q:
because you consider too much considerations,

A voice actor is supposed to play a character decently, I would decide if your voice fits into my radio play - independant from any possible "accents".

so there!

Seriously, we have LOTS of accents alone in germany, then there are swiss people, austrians and german foreigners. I never ever considered that different accents of different characters in a german movie or TV series compromised it's level of "authenticity". Unless it was a chinese kung fu movie dubbed with bavarian speakers o_0; for the sheer reason of non-sense comedy.

and who would possibly define Omura as having a "foreign" accent? foreign to what anway? Japan? He is a japanese character thought up by an australian person.

*knocks onto your head*

I - do - not - care! as long as the radio play gets anywhere and finished and has a decent quality. MY major problem was always to find anybody at all who would go through projects till the end.

I'd rather have a mixture of who ever accents happen to be available as long as they can play authentically and I get the project done and presentable.

More important to me is, that the VA has a decent microphone to work with, because a cheap microphone will lower the overall quality way more than an accent.

*falls down exhausted*

PS: i still could require british VA's =D
i dont much like the american accent anyway ^_^

Well, reading over Sato-sensei's and Omura-sensei's dialogue, I'm not sure I could properly capture the essence of each character anyway.

I certainly couldn't do Sato's stumbling, sweaty mannerisms. And, while I can read Omura's dialogue, I can't quite get the air of semi-amused detachment that Makie finds so ambiguous. I guess I'm just not an actor. Of course, it also depends on the calibre of the actors that audition for the audio play - if I start feeling that I could do a better Omura than the people auditioning, I might want to play him.

Failing that, though, I guess I could be part of the peanut gallery... =)

But even then, it comes down to technical problems. I don't have a very good microphone, though I suppose I could always go and buy a better one.

http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/sh ... hp?t=26736

please send any auditions here ( ;

There are even condenser USB microphones already o_0
but then there are background noises and reverbration in the room etc...

Visitors think of my flat as... unconventional.

Seems like these people take their voice acting seriously; I'm sure there must be a prospective Omura-sensei out there somewhere. And I don't even know what a condenser microphone is, much less where to get one. Are you saying that these VAs would have their own soundproofed areas to record their contributions?

Oh, and are you going to post in the RP any time soon? =)

I expect that they do take it seriously.

I am at work right now... o_o
like i told ko-chan in the other discussion, i might post tonight.

i guess i have to cut down sleeping periods, they waste too much of my time =D