Roareye Black

Erm... I don't know where you got the idea of some form of power struggle. O.o
I was simply offering advice on how best to showcase your talents to the topic creator. Christ, you didn't have to try and put yourself on a pedestal and try and belittle me. Your attitude is surprising for someone who claims to have written the fiction in question as 'a jest'. I figured this was a bit of light hearted humour, an introspective on the community fiction works. I never said I didn't like your audition nor that someone wouldn't appreciate it. Maybe my advice was misplaced and came across the wrong way, if it did I am sorry for that, but seriously you don't have to try and create a drama on here over this. We're only having some fun.

I did it in one go for 23 minutes, it's how you warm up the vocal chords and how naturally/well you project. Voice actors generally run on the same 9 hour shifts as anyone else, as do radio broadcasters, so it isn't too much depending on  how naturally you utilise the voice.

The idea of auditions is to show you can handle the varying scales of the role. You don't have to do a larger chunk necessarily, just do clips from the areas where the narrator is more defensive. So rather than do a chunk in one go, just add in the bits where the narrator is more emotive, and pad it with 2/3 lines either side of the emotive sentance/s.

Mystery002, on 24 February 2012 - 12:27 AM, said:

I think it would be wise for the Narrator part for you to also do the moments where he appears to be having a go at the reader too. I say this because the narrator's voice has to hold audience interest between relatively large chunks of dialogue and the way it is written the narrator seems to grow to despise their own audience as the fiction goes on (As he/she gets overly defensive during the course of it). Anybody trying for the narrator really needs to be able to carry that element off as well as reading the descriptive narration.

I'd say that goes for anyone going for the narrator role. Doesn't have to be at the extreme length mine was (sorry ^^;; ) but that element certainly needs to be there.

PS. I find it hilarious nobody has mentioned my nearly racist Knuckles impersonation

So long as the engine is better than the one in Brawl. It just wasn't good enough.
Me and Dreadknux still play Melee rather than Brawl because the engine was better honed, faster and more frantic. Switching over to Brawl just felt like playing Melee at half-speed - forcing us to half the life-set to 5 from 10 so the matches would last the same quick-fire timeframe. Inevitably, rather than try and bend Brawl to a decent speed, we switched back to the more refined and polished Melee for our fun. Shame because there were a few characters (Like Sonic) which we would have played more if only the game engine was any good.

As for new characters? Waluigi is a must.
For possible third party characters? Earthworm Jim is essential (Though Nintendo rarely look outside of Japanese-oriented characters), Megaman would be awesome, Ryu from Street Fighter, Lara Croft, Cloud from FF7, Bub and Bob (Bubble Bobble), Toejam and Earl would be freaking AWESOME!

Regardless, so long as the arenas are more exciting than the bland Brawl ones, and the engine is as fast and smooth as Melee then I'll be happy. The number of characters is so high that adding many many more wouldn't really add a huge amount to the gameplay.

PS. Who the hell is Groose?

Okay, back with a full night's sleep, a professional standard microphone and some drink to keep my throat from dying out.
I've done this second video very differently. Instead of doing an entire sequence with all the voices, I only do one voice at a time, and do as many of their lines running along from each other as possible. The auditions are in this order, and some include multiple voice types;

1. Blonde 'Steak' Punk
2. Dumb Punk
3. Dr Eggman/Robotnik (Assumed that was who the voice is at the end)
4. Shadow the Hedgehog
5. Sonic the Hedgehog
6. Knuckles the Echidna
7. Narrator 1 - American-style deep voice, similar (But better) than the imitation I tried last night
8. Narrator 2 - Camp-ish children's fairy tale voice, with a pinch of smugness.



I hope this is much more acceptable

Mykonos - I really like your Sonic impersonation as well as your punks. You give Sonic the effeminate edge that fangirls who write this crap would want.