Thursday, September 15, 2011
More Good News!
Good news everyone; my friend Grayson Moulton (I don't think I spelled that right) has agreed to do the voice of Alexander Hamilton's Ghost. Also, a word of explanation: the role you are playing is across from your name. If there is one role across from your name and then several roles underneath that role, you are playing all of them. So for instance, Chris Whiteside will do the voice of Sea Captain, Jefferson, and Roger the Anchor. So yeah, that's the skinny. Thanks peeps, lay down the law and so forth.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Cast Revealed!
The Adventures of Francis Scott Key
Cast List
Joe Spear Francis Scott Key
Elisa Black Mary Key
Chris Whiteside Sea Captain
Thomas Jefferson
Roger the Anchor
Josh Hopkins Clark the Clark
Caleb Snarr John Adams
Aaron Burr,
Carly Skankey Bar Wench
Martha Jefferson
Glen Reber Dr. Beanes
More Cast List Info
Okay gang. If you're still with me, here's the skinny. I'm gonna send troops into Rushia to attack Stalingrad. This is now a two-front war so everyone be on your game...oh, oh no sorry, that's my plan to win liebensrahm for the ubermenchen. But horrible Nazi jokes aside, I still plan to post the cast list as it stands in South Hall and on facebook and this blog today. Not all parts will appear on the cast list since I'm still waiting for confirmations from a few people who were offered parts and I'm still deliberating on voices of characters who appear later. Once again, let me say, if you were not cast, do not despair. I have all your names in my computer and if I need extra characters or help with action panels, I will contact you. Please no hate mail or email, it was always my intent to get some voice doubling going, and I don't have anything against any of you personally.
Meanwhile...the cartoon progresses. I will be uploading the still versions of episode two, and hopefully recording recording the voices for episode one this week. So stay tuned and keep reading. Also tell your friends to check this comic out.
Oh, PS the lists probably won't go up until later today since I have class til like four and work.
Meanwhile...the cartoon progresses. I will be uploading the still versions of episode two, and hopefully recording recording the voices for episode one this week. So stay tuned and keep reading. Also tell your friends to check this comic out.
Oh, PS the lists probably won't go up until later today since I have class til like four and work.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Cast List Info
Thank you everyone who auditioned for the voiced version, I will be reviewing the audition recordings this weekend and I hope to have a cast list by Monday. I will post the list as it stands on the call board in south hall as well as on fskfullcolor.blogspot.com. If you are not cast, don't worry, they're may be parts that come up in the future that suit you. Also I will send out fb invites to help with the action panels. Thanks everyone, you really Laid Down the Law!
Friday, September 9, 2011
Audition Today!
Yay! The day is finally here! I will be in the library around 4 today, I tried to reserve a study room in advance, but apparently they don't let you do that. I would have reserved a room on upper campus, but they have like, classes and shiz up there and I wanted to get the auditions over before the 24 hour theater meeting (I'm also writing for that). So anyway, show up at the library today at your audition time and hopefully we'll have someone who can herd everyone up to the appropriate room. The library ladies won't know that I'm hosting an audition in there so don't ask them where FSK auditions are. Suddenly this is all seeming very under-the-radar hmmm. Anyway, it should be a wonderfully fun process. I will be recording your voices, so be aware of that. I've asked for head-shots so I can remember whose voice is whose later, but if you don't have a head shot we'll snap one at the audition. My good friend and room mate Elisa will be sitting in on the auditions, we are both very excited to meet all those of you that we don't know! If you or your friends (we know you have them) would like to come but didn't get a chance to sign up for an audition time come along anyway, the more the merrier! Also everyone please like Francis on facebook, he needs your support. The better this comic does the quicker you get famous!
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
AUDITIONS!!!!
As many of you know, I will be holding auditions for voices for the YouTube version of the comic, this Friday at the Gerald R. Sherratt Library on SUU campus, from 4 to 6 pm. As the notice in South Hall said, this is a low-key audition. My plan is to get a study room (which I think you can reserve for like two hours at a time) and herd everyone there via text and email, so I hope everyone auditioning has those two things.
I'm assuming that if you are reading this you probably saw the audition notice, read the audition notice, signed up for a time slot and are now perusing my website asking yourself; "just how big a deal is this?" Either that or you are one of my sisters taking an interest in my life. If you are in the former camp, the answer is, not a huge deal. If you are in the latter camp then, yes, I am aware that I am a nerd, and yes I will take a bath and get a real job.
When I say FSK isn't a huge deal, I mean it's not a huge deal yet. It is the fledgling brain-child of a feverish history dork's brain, waiting to burst forth from it's Dr. Pepper-swollen, Monty Python-Addled brain-womb into the lives and hearts of fellow history dorks. I'm hoping this is going to turn into a really cool phenomenon, and how could it not right? Did you see the first episode? Pure Gold!
Anyway, here's some information that might be interesting to my auditionees. So, Francis Scott Key is the lawyer who wrote the poem that would become the national anthem. He's pretty much the original one-hit-wonder. He wrote one good poem that happened to be a huge hit for the next several hundred years, yet published a volume of poetry that sold like the opposite of hot cakes. What would that be? Home enimas? those gross candies your grandma thinks you like? Anyway, all anybody knows about FS Key is that he wrote the national anthem. Beyond that he is an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a conundrum, wrapped in an amusing spoonerism, wrapped in a croisant, wrapped in sunshine. I have cleverly un-enig-conun-amspoon-assant-shined him in a most amusing (so says me mum) fashion.
So there's the premise of the cartoon. Here's what to expect if cast. If you are cast there will be no regular rehearsals, no scheduled performances, no unmitigated use of your time. I will simply send out an email every week or so to say that the comic is ready for voices. I will send out a list of the voices I need for that issue and schedule individual sessions with each actor to record their part. I will hardly ever have you record together, unless there's like a lot of scenes with you and one other character and you happen to have the same availability. I am hoping to get some voice doubling going so I don't have to deal with as many schedules, so work on your character voices. The main female voice has been cast, but there are a few others and there will be a few to come. I am also not averse to casting women who can do legitimate male voices. Once cast, you are cast forever. This could be a rough gig because you will have to pencil it into your busy lives periodically throughout the semester, and you will have to wait and see if you're in each episode. But, it could also be an awesome gig because you'll have something to do all semester, you won't have to miss any other worth-while activities to participate in it, and I'll let you have recordings of it for your professional reel, hooray! Also, how often in college do you get to originate a character? So work on your voices, I really need good announcer voices. If anyone can impersonate Howard Cosell, Walter Cronkite, or Peter Lorre that would be epic! I would even welcome the occasional John Madden sound-alike. So there's the skinny. Thanks for stickin' with me through this hella-long post, and I hope you are ready to Lay Down The Law!!!! This Friday.
I'm assuming that if you are reading this you probably saw the audition notice, read the audition notice, signed up for a time slot and are now perusing my website asking yourself; "just how big a deal is this?" Either that or you are one of my sisters taking an interest in my life. If you are in the former camp, the answer is, not a huge deal. If you are in the latter camp then, yes, I am aware that I am a nerd, and yes I will take a bath and get a real job.
When I say FSK isn't a huge deal, I mean it's not a huge deal yet. It is the fledgling brain-child of a feverish history dork's brain, waiting to burst forth from it's Dr. Pepper-swollen, Monty Python-Addled brain-womb into the lives and hearts of fellow history dorks. I'm hoping this is going to turn into a really cool phenomenon, and how could it not right? Did you see the first episode? Pure Gold!
Anyway, here's some information that might be interesting to my auditionees. So, Francis Scott Key is the lawyer who wrote the poem that would become the national anthem. He's pretty much the original one-hit-wonder. He wrote one good poem that happened to be a huge hit for the next several hundred years, yet published a volume of poetry that sold like the opposite of hot cakes. What would that be? Home enimas? those gross candies your grandma thinks you like? Anyway, all anybody knows about FS Key is that he wrote the national anthem. Beyond that he is an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a conundrum, wrapped in an amusing spoonerism, wrapped in a croisant, wrapped in sunshine. I have cleverly un-enig-conun-amspoon-assant-shined him in a most amusing (so says me mum) fashion.
So there's the premise of the cartoon. Here's what to expect if cast. If you are cast there will be no regular rehearsals, no scheduled performances, no unmitigated use of your time. I will simply send out an email every week or so to say that the comic is ready for voices. I will send out a list of the voices I need for that issue and schedule individual sessions with each actor to record their part. I will hardly ever have you record together, unless there's like a lot of scenes with you and one other character and you happen to have the same availability. I am hoping to get some voice doubling going so I don't have to deal with as many schedules, so work on your character voices. The main female voice has been cast, but there are a few others and there will be a few to come. I am also not averse to casting women who can do legitimate male voices. Once cast, you are cast forever. This could be a rough gig because you will have to pencil it into your busy lives periodically throughout the semester, and you will have to wait and see if you're in each episode. But, it could also be an awesome gig because you'll have something to do all semester, you won't have to miss any other worth-while activities to participate in it, and I'll let you have recordings of it for your professional reel, hooray! Also, how often in college do you get to originate a character? So work on your voices, I really need good announcer voices. If anyone can impersonate Howard Cosell, Walter Cronkite, or Peter Lorre that would be epic! I would even welcome the occasional John Madden sound-alike. So there's the skinny. Thanks for stickin' with me through this hella-long post, and I hope you are ready to Lay Down The Law!!!! This Friday.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
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