LEADS AND READS - WEEK OF 10/01 thru 10/07

Kara Edwards · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 17:51 (GMT) Post subject:

All I know is that I'm glad I'm not the one who has to cast this project! With so many very good and very different reads...sheesh! It will be fun to see if anyone from this thread is cast (or are they casting muliple voices?) and which direction they wanted to go.

Dina- I thougt you had a very youthful sound and enjoyed your read!

Dina Monaco-Boland · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 17:55 (GMT) Post subject:

Thank you Kara but.... listen to it again more critically. I think you'll see I've gotten a lot older (ha ha!!) I'm hyper critical of myself. I wouldn't hire me for this. Not the right sound. I actually can do a teen-- don't know why I left it this way.... who knows what I was thinking!

Kara Edwards · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 18:01 (GMT) Post subject:

I've been doing quite a bit of studying recently after not being cast in a couple of 'child' reads I thought I had nailed. I'm not so sure teen and child means 'really young and cute' anymore.

There are 2 things children and teens do regularly. Their pacing isn't always smooth, and they try to sound older than they are.

I was with our friend's 4 year old last night. While she had a very tiny voice, her delivery was not as cutesy and silly as I would have thought. Her sentences were delivered in a tone much like her mom's...more adult than you would think!

So, it comes down to...do they want 13-teen or 18-teen? We'll have to wait to find out!

Dina Monaco-Boland · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 18:04 (GMT) Post subject:

Caryn Clark · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 18:37 (GMT) Post subject:

Thanks guys!

You know, I'm an emotional person as an adult (I cry at the silliest things... some commercials, every lovey dovey movie I watch, even Grey's Anatomy!!). But I was thinking about when I was a teen and you know, I didn't cry that much. I whined, I was defensive to an adult when explaining something if I were in trouble, but I didn't cry. I was a tough teen b/c I had a lot of stuff going on (and, you know, I was one of those teens at the house parties, I must admit). Matter of fact, in the 9th grade one of my classmates drown in a water skiing accident. It was the first funeral I had been allowed to go to in my life... I didn't cry. Not to say that some of her closer friends didn't cry -- they did... but with this script, I really couldn't tell if this girl telling the story was a close friend of Ericka's. Thus, the read I gave.

But, Deby, I do see your point. It could go both ways. I thought all the reads on this thread were very believable... every last one of them. Kara's right... this'll be a tough one to call for the casting person.

Connie Terwilliger · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 19:39 (GMT) Post subject:

I'm sure the video will be a collection of scenarios - these are 3 separate stories/pieces...so they are not related directly.

And I think one perfectly legitimate choice for that last line could be shocked disbelief rather than grief.

Diane Havens · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 19:47 (GMT) Post subject:

Ladies on Teen Impact --
I loved all your reads -- the voices all were very believeable as teen. Since I have just recently been full time teaching young teens, I have the voices freshly in my head. (Who knows what the seeker has?) I also agree to an extent with Caryn that there is a certain amount of emotional detachment that most teens have. And I definitely agree with Kara that kids speak much more in adult phrases and patterns, I think in part due to all the media saturation to which they are exposed. Even kids' films are very hip nowadays.
The real problem with this thing is the script. It is not written the way a teen would speak. It is overwritten, much too formal -- more like an essay they were given to write about the topic. No teen I know, no matter how intelligent, would use the term "partially ejected" in relating a story of this nature, especially if they were getting emotional. So a tough one to make sound natural -- kudos to all who tried. I don't do teen anyway, so I didn't even attempt it.

Connie Terwilliger · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 20:02 (GMT) Post subject:

I ended up not submitting my read - I'm hoping that the seeker will follow the link from my profile to Savvy and hear it here, so I don't burn one of my auditions... Wink

Diane Havens · Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007, 20:23 (GMT) Post subject:

Good one, Connie! There's finally a use for that link! Laughing