[SPEAKER_07]: Welcome to Crooked Stories Theater.
[SPEAKER_07]: Today we bring you the final installment of our Devil's Do Actors Roundtable.
[SPEAKER_07]: How important is it as a voice actor to develop other voices and to be able to do different accents and things like that, Olivia, do you want to speak to that or do you do different voices or is it basically right now for you kind of this, you know, you're mostly
[SPEAKER_00]: It is to some degree in my natural voice, but I'm not the best with dialects.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, I do have plenty of tools to change up your voice, like changing just where, kind of where your larynx is sitting or where you're placing your voice versus kind of up in your head or down to your chest.
[SPEAKER_00]: The way you speak, just dynamics with a faster slower, just things like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that people,
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at voice acting is like, oh, I need to know how to do like a million different like impressions of somebody else or and that's not necessarily it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I've always heard of just like it's either a really good impression of like a family member that you know or like a really bad impression of a celebrity that everybody knows all of those are new voices.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's always just playing with what you can do now and just the tiny things that make up a voice.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't do accents.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the accents that I do are terrible.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's all about just trying different stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: So for some reason, we can't all boy Melblank.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can't all be Mark Grow out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's, we've all got a little bit in us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And usually it's just a voice running around in your head that just says, hey,
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and if you've got kids, that's where I learned all the way I've been doing voices since I was knee high to a grasshopper.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, waking your kid up with a different voice and just making him laugh.
[SPEAKER_01]: That right there, that your voice acting, you just don't know it.
[SPEAKER_07]: But it sounds like you're both saying that, you know, be able to do eight different voices, different characters and things like that.
[SPEAKER_07]: This isn't a necessary thing in terms of, you know, you can still have a voice acting career and you don't have to have that as part of your portfolio.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there are so, I'm, I'm, I'm monopolizing here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, there are so many different genres out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, you do corporate narration.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not gonna have to do a different voice in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You do e-learning.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not gonna have to do another voice in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You just use your, what God gave you straight out.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if you get into character work,
[SPEAKER_01]: to be in character word, you get into that, then you get to play a lot more.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'll set back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will say this, it is a rare, extremely rare for me to just play one character, extremely.
[SPEAKER_02]: So even if, even if you mostly just use your regular voice, which most of us do, this is your money maker, this is the one that you're gonna be using most of the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: You need to have a repertoire.
[SPEAKER_02]: You need to have several in your back pocket.
[SPEAKER_02]: Even if you can't do them great, it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: just have them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot tell you the number of times I've been in a session.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I do my stuff, and I'm done.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then like, okay, we have 30 minutes left.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's, let's plot some random NPCs and have you voice those.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're not ready for that, you're going to be in trouble because they're going to tell you too.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is, this is mostly the game and animation space, but still.
[SPEAKER_02]: you're going to want that you're going to want to practice you're going to want to learn your instrument and you're going to know you need to find out what you can do where you can place it what kind of accent you can do you got to have those.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think you're you hit the nail on the head.
[SPEAKER_05]: There was a um
[SPEAKER_05]: There's an animation pilot, and I can't say too much about, but it was going to be in some animation festivals, and I think it has been, but they were looking for actors for this pilot, and it's just in storyboard mode, you know, or animatic mode, or whatever, right now, but,
[SPEAKER_05]: I think there are seven characters in the first episode and I played four of those seven characters and I had to make them all sound distinct, like a completely different register, a different accent, a different, you know, timber to your voice, some more grovely and some more, you know, a lot more straight-laced, you know, so you have to become a really completely different person.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then some of them might have an accent, what you're talking about is completely, you have to become something different.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then they came back like two months later, they're like, we can't find a lady to fit this one roll.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm like, well, I don't know why you're telling me that.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's hard to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like to be fast at it.
[SPEAKER_05]: What did they say?
[SPEAKER_05]: We need a favor.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we need a favor.
[SPEAKER_05]: She said, literally, they were like, Do you want to take a shot at this?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, a lady?
[SPEAKER_05]: And like, what if we sent you this voice?
[SPEAKER_05]: And I can't think of the name, but there's like a famous drag queen, you know, and it's dealt far.
[SPEAKER_05]: Whenever she talks, she talks like this is almost like, ah, Harvey Fiesteen, but it's like a different sort of void, and they loved it, they're like, oh my God, that's it, I'm like are you serious?
[SPEAKER_05]: It's like so, I'm having to, I'm going to turn my mic down because I'm going to the sort, but I
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm having to yell out, line, sell it like this.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, and it's, I'm like, oh my gosh, like I, and I said, I, they have a three season show Bible written for this.
[SPEAKER_05]: I can't do that for three seasons.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna have to read this.
[SPEAKER_05]: When it comes to that, we'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: But I, I, all that, all that being said,
[SPEAKER_05]: All that being said, when I do workshops and things like that, I like to dispel this myth that you have to have all of these different character voices, to be a successful voice actor, kind of like what Ralph was, was a learning to, you know, Tom Hanks, Matthew McConaughey, Chris Pratt, definitely not, you know, I mean, they don't have,
[SPEAKER_05]: an arsenal of voices behind them, but they're going to get booked for their voice.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, when you hear it, you know exactly who it is, because they're amazing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Just at acting, which is what voice acting is all about.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's acting first, then it's the voice.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, now you have people like Commission like Mel Blanc, the man of a thousand voices Mark Hamill, who was Luke Skywalker, but he was also the Joker in Batman, and the newest iteration of Chuck E in the movies,
[SPEAKER_05]: Just and he was in the new he men series as skeletalizes just incredible.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm I'm more of a voice guy because I grew up In Greenville North Carolina, so then you know, so when I let my natural accent pop through I'm talking a lot more like this so if you take this voice and then you kind of drop it down And then all of a sudden that's walled and I slow and down and then that's older walled, you know So you you learn how to age a voice to become different people as well
[SPEAKER_03]: If I may jump in really quick at the chase and made me think of something I wanted to ask you guys to make a living as voice actors, what do you think about the Tom Hanks, you know, and I think maybe it started with the original Toy Story.
[SPEAKER_03]: It seems to me that's when it kind of all of a sudden all these animated movies are being voiced by famous movie stars and that means they're not being voiced by people make a living just as voice actors that nobody knows.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, what are your thoughts on that?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a re-expected challenge.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, how can they market the movie a little better, I think?
[SPEAKER_06]: Is it what it comes out or the project?
[SPEAKER_02]: So are people going to buy tickets to watch me or Tom Hick?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I mean, I understand why they do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Of course they do.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: People know those are known names, but I'm just kind of, I mean,
[SPEAKER_03]: It's kind of stinks for somebody that's trying to make a living off using their voice for that one.
[SPEAKER_03]: These guys that already have enough money to buy China and they get hired for all these big projects, voice, just because they're famous already.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a good point.
[SPEAKER_01]: With voice acting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go ahead.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, Paul.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: The thing with voice acting is if you get into it, thinking that you're going
[SPEAKER_01]: right off the bat, it ain't going to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, because that's just it.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the superstar actors that are getting the higher paid gigs, getting any type of gigs like getting commercial, even commercials that are out there for, say, four or dodge or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those guys already have people that they are using.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where the people who are just starting out, they're in fan base stuff a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where they're building their,
[SPEAKER_01]: repertoire.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where they're getting their, building their jobs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or, you know, volunteer stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where a lot of people, I still do volunteer stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's just because I have fun with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get to play people that are,
[SPEAKER_01]: in different roles, different types of people all the time in those.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get to play a hillbilly a lot, and that's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it is for anybody who wants to make it in this, they're not going to get those big roles like Tom Hanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not going to happen.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is it is nice to see there are a few guys that have made it pretty big as voice actors think somebody like Nolan North, Troy Baker, John Demagio and guys like that that have really have kind of become, you know, even big projects look for guys like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: The problem though is that those guys are from a different era.
[SPEAKER_02]: The network they've built doesn't exist anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_06]: Building buildings is almost impossible.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, exactly.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there is a second side to this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is, this is important.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hollywood, all the, the network TV stuff, probably, it's, it's going to be an uphill battle.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, content has never been more available.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you can go out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you can find content creators.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes we're talking 16, 17-year-old kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: They will pay you to voice act their stuff and they generally pay pretty well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tell them what your rates are, they'll usually do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if they've got side jobs or if they're making that much money off of the content.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there are tons of opportunities to make pretty good money just doing even video games, animated stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever you want, it's there.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just gotta go find it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm, thank you for, for saying that it's a, there is that top tip of the iceberg, if you will, that, that everyone sees of voice acting, what is the most competitive level of commercials and animations and AAA video games and such.
[SPEAKER_05]: And I'm not saying that's unattainable because you,
[SPEAKER_05]: you might can get there.
[SPEAKER_05]: Seriously, I've met a lot of people at these fan conventions, comment cons, and things that they were sitting in our chairs, you know, less than a year or two ago, and then they got an agent, and they were able to get an audition for a particular role, and it was exactly what the director was looking for.
[SPEAKER_05]: And now they're a voice on some
[SPEAKER_05]: Eventually you get enough of those and you get recognized by some larger studios and you can start to make it into that area.
[SPEAKER_05]: But it is.
[SPEAKER_05]: It isn't upheaval.
[SPEAKER_05]: Upward upheaval battle.
[SPEAKER_05]: But it's not it's not completely unattainable.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean anytime you're trying to climb a mountain, it's an uphill battle.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what I always say, I just need to get into the right ear.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody needs to get into the right ear because if you get into that person and they have a spot for you, they have a role that they hear.
[SPEAKER_01]: And oh, that person, they're perfect for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you don't know until you get out there and try.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I was going to say I think it's also important to put yourself in people's ears, you know?
[SPEAKER_06]: The squeaky wheel gets the grease, right?
[SPEAKER_06]: So reach out to people and let them know that you exist because otherwise nobody's going to know that you exist.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it'd be amazing how many times I see casting calls and just by reaching out and talking to the person.
[SPEAKER_02]: It gets my foot in the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: So definitely.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I would say from my perspective, I like to see people who are excited to be working on a project or excited about a project that we have coming up, Matt, you've been particularly good about this, just keeping that line of conversation open and just saying, hey, I know
[SPEAKER_06]: just keep me in mind and and I think that that really is an important thing for people to do I think it's an an excellent piece of advice is to just keep that conversation going what that includes you know cold emails find people you can reach out to and reach out to them and they might not have anything now but at least you're on their radar and you know check in with them in a few weeks and just keep doing that as long as you got new stuff you know
[SPEAKER_07]: But I do, I have a list of people that haven't done any workforce yet.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, we only have the one project, but you know, we've got three others in production now.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I still have a developing a list of people that, you know, I'm going to use them at some point here in the future.
[SPEAKER_07]: I just don't have the right role yet, but just because
[SPEAKER_07]: I haven't cast somebody on one of these existing projects.
[SPEAKER_07]: It doesn't mean they're not on my radar and they're not somebody I'm thinking about for a project that I know that's coming six months down there.
[SPEAKER_07]: I know what we're doing producing for the next three years.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm constantly thinking in terms of, oh, you know, yeah, okay, let me put that in my bank because I know I have that type of character coming.
[SPEAKER_07]: Um, so yeah, even if you don't get, you know, chosen for a project that you audition for, don't, don't think as a voice actor that that means they don't, they don't remember you or you didn't make an impression or that it isn't going to lead to a job.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you better use me some more because I know where your house is.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know where I live.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: And you shoot me a lot.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we do a lot of online gaming.
[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, I don't know what you said that too Paul because that's the thing I love the when I so I teach in intro class for a studio I won't plug
[SPEAKER_05]: But um, you go plug.
[SPEAKER_05]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: Ed studio in New York City.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, we do a lot of voiceover education, David Goldberg is an amazing, amazing person.
[SPEAKER_05]: Anyway, that's the end of that plug.
[SPEAKER_05]: But no, so one of the things that I love to say,
[SPEAKER_05]: As I love to surprise people, I'll have to ask them like, how many rejections do you think I've gotten personally over the last maybe year to year and a half?
[SPEAKER_05]: And they're like, oh my 50, 100, 200, I'm like, keep going, keep going, 300 keep going, 4 keep going, 5 on it, around 7 to 800 rejections, have I gotten?
[SPEAKER_05]: over the last year and a half, and I still love it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think about it when I get up in the morning.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm thinking about it as I'm going to bed.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm thinking about it as I'm driving to other gigs, because I have, we have several different ad vocations.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that the word vocations that we try to spread ourselves into?
[SPEAKER_05]: As I'm doing those things, I'm thinking about a role or a different character.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, there's a different kind of voice.
[SPEAKER_05]: I never thought about that one.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I try to log it or I pull up my voice recorder and I record it and say, you know, gravelly elf voice or something like that, you know, and try to put it in my written records to remember it later.
[SPEAKER_05]: But a no doesn't mean you're not good enough.
[SPEAKER_05]: A no just means that's not what that particular person was looking for that day.
[SPEAKER_05]: And the example I like to give is that the two first gigs I ever gotten, I had ever gotten that were professionally recorded and paid.
[SPEAKER_05]: I was rejected for two of the roles in those two video games, but before it was all said and done, I voiced seven other roles in those two between those two video games and mixed a trailer.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it doesn't mean you're not good enough.
[SPEAKER_05]: It just means they weren't looking for your particular voice for that role.
[SPEAKER_05]: So keep going, keep auditioning for other roles, keep looking out, keep networking, keep sending those emails.
[SPEAKER_05]: Don't don't bug them and get sent to the spam folder.
[SPEAKER_05]: But be polite and keep that relationship going because your personality
[SPEAKER_05]: might be the thing that just gets them to email you back and say, hey, I really want to find a spot for you, you know, let's talk about it and see if we can find something, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, rejection is the norm.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is the expected outcome for most of what you do.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just the reality of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was totally jacked.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_03]: I was just going to, with regarding alien press conference, it's coming up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jack auditioned for just about every role in that.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he finally got picked to do just a couple of lines.
[SPEAKER_03]: And
[SPEAKER_03]: It was, I'm trying to remember, I'm trying to think exactly what I want to put this.
[SPEAKER_03]: There were a couple different things.
[SPEAKER_03]: He tried several different types and they didn't like this and didn't like this or, you know, I don't know if they didn't like it.
[SPEAKER_03]: But they had something like better and I told Jack and then you guys can confirm or, you know, not on this.
[SPEAKER_03]: But I just told him that I think probably most of the time and Paul would probably confirm this too.
[SPEAKER_03]: The person that's putting this together that's doing this kind of has a pretty good idea of what he wants.
[SPEAKER_03]: kind of in his mind now maybe somebody will come in and do something completely different blow him away and go oh I love that but I told Jack I said I think they pretty much have in mind what they want out of that character and so if you don't do that chances are you're probably not getting that one because somebody is probably going to send them with that they're going to get they're going to get somebody that's going to do it the way they already kind of envisioned it and that's probably who's most likely to get it is that is that
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, no, I would say that's correct.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's for me anyway, and I'm still fairly new at this, too, but when I'm casting, Gary Hall is the director on Alien Press Conference.
[SPEAKER_07]: So he's our first guest director.
[SPEAKER_07]: But I know I talked to him enough about his thought process, too, and it's the same as mine.
[SPEAKER_07]: It isn't necessarily about whether or not this person can do the role or whether they're equal good enough or the acting is good enough.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is about who is right for the role and like Ralph experience this with Devils do.
[SPEAKER_07]: But it just wasn't going to work in that role of Marvin just just because of the flow and the and the feel of the project and the order, the order that the decisions were made so we cast Jason first, you know, and then everything falls into place off of that.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, that's not in any way a failure of acting ability or, you know, that's not a skill problem.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's just the reality of production.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so, yeah, I don't know exactly what Gary was thinking, but I would imagine a lot of it was, you know, what is the feel for this character and how does this character relate in terms of the characters that are directly around them?
[SPEAKER_07]: So like if I've got Matt Canolario already cast as one of the rhinos, the reporter, and then this other reporter comes in right after and asks to question, how are they going to sound together?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is there enough separation there?
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, there's a whole bunch of different things that go into making those decisions, but but basically, yes, what you're saying is correct, is that there is a certain feel and a certain sound that you have in mind and you're trying to match that.
[SPEAKER_07]: I like to leave, you hinted at it, but I like to leave room to be surprised because you never know.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't tell you how many different takes that I use on Devils do, that were not the style that I heard.
[SPEAKER_07]: And just in actually we talked about this, the beginning of episode 7.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's not even just when you're casting, it's when you're making all these other decisions too.
[SPEAKER_07]: I had a certain sound in my head for the beginning of episode seven, and Justin came in with a completely different take on the scene, and we went with his take because it was good call.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, right, but you know, but I left myself open to being surprised and so you know, I wasn't like my natural instinct wasn't to go, oh, that's wrong.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's that's not how it's supposed to sound.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let's let's change it.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's a little bit about, I guess what I'm saying is that, yeah, you do have a way that you're casting to a certain expectation, but I think if you're doing it right, you're also open to surprise.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, there's so many different factors that go into making those choices from a producer standpoint.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would hope that the people who are auditioning for me would understand that and not take those decisions personally because I mean, I could speak to Olivia with the role of Rachel.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was the last role that we cast.
[SPEAKER_07]: and I had a list of like seven people audition for that role and I could have chosen any one of the seven and I think gotten a very good performance.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're lucky we chose Olivia because we got a fantastic performance.
[SPEAKER_07]: Good choice.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it was, it was a very good choice, but that doesn't mean the six other people that were being considered for Rachel couldn't have done the job.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Paul.
[SPEAKER_04]: You remember the first demo we've ever we ever did and I sat there.
[SPEAKER_04]: I did my music that did An entire script one it seems like the first four minutes of it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and I didn't every single Justin did every voice it was Improved We should have had that we should have had that audio ready for this tonight.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah, it's this is the drive somewhere
[SPEAKER_04]: It was a lot of fun doing.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think at any part, but you know, hey, it was a Jackson here in a bonus episode
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh gosh, you should hear it, you're not good enough, just to remember.
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[SPEAKER_07]: was just Cartman, but it was just South Park.
[SPEAKER_07]: He just he just just rides.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm one taking it, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm literally just reading out the script.
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't really read the script to my business.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, almost a year ago, it seems like me not a year, but at least 10 months.
[SPEAKER_04]: And uh, there's a lot of fun doing that.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think uh, I did have faith come up here and do that the robbery scene and uh, she got the part.
[SPEAKER_04]: So hey, it worked out.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, faith, faith beaming who ended up doing woman getting robbed, very first line that re-recorded of dialogue for the entire project.
[SPEAKER_04]: She now to take it one take, it's all my fault.
[SPEAKER_07]: Y'all are evil, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: I think there's one other voice actor on this call that has not been mentioned, and that is Paul can now wear a man getting robbed, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're hot, yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: And okay, so I needed to defend myself a little bit here because the program that we're using to edit these episodes, we had, well, we were first chopping these episodes together.
[SPEAKER_07]: The program kept taking everything and sliding it up one track.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so, and Justin, you can verify for me, this is absolutely true.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I would take the track, the take that we were choosing, and I'd put it on the first track for each character.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then I would take two and the take number two and take number three that we weren't using.
[SPEAKER_07]: I would put them on the track right below it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And for some reason, the program that we were using kept kicking everything up one track.
[SPEAKER_07]: And we didn't catch it.
[SPEAKER_07]: So the take that we ended up using for my one line in episode one is actually not the chosen take that we wanted for the episodes.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's actually my second favorite and it's horrible.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's absolutely horrible.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is why I should leave all of it to all of this superficial steps.
[SPEAKER_07]: That was great.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll tell you, when I, when I, you know, I didn't know how this was going to turn out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't know, you know, I mentioned early on.
[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I wanted to be part of it because it was Paul's project.
[SPEAKER_03]: But when, I don't know about the rest of you guys, when I heard the trailer,
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm like, wow, okay, this may be awesome, the trailer really blew me away.
[SPEAKER_03]: And again, Justin, dude, I mean, Jason mixed it.
[SPEAKER_04]: So I he had a phenomenal job mixing it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I just provided this to appreciate the writing portion of it, but
[SPEAKER_04]: over all that was that was Jason and I I thought it was you man.
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't I didn't know that well think it out of here just a window that was all that that was all that was all just in the music I mean he laid the he laid the groundwork for that yeah well you know you guys were but I thought that's that's when I thought okay this is going to be at a level I wasn't even expecting this is he's got some really talented people put together for this and I
[SPEAKER_05]: what was funny about the trailers I made a decision for a certain sound is for a part of it in sound design where I think what was this line we always joke about
[SPEAKER_05]: mount up and let's go or something like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then I added like horses galloping away, you know, at that point.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then when I heard the scene, I was like, oh, just didn't did the same thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: And then we didn't talk about that.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I just thought it was really, really neat how it should like everyone really had a common.
[SPEAKER_05]: Vision for the show, you know, and I think this is probably a good point to say like Paul, that's that's on you, man You chose the right people for the show and
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm on other productions with other people that I think I've shared this with you.
[SPEAKER_05]: The writing is nowhere near as strong as what's in as what was in this show.
[SPEAKER_05]: Like I I I have a different approach to my scene work as a lesbian.
[SPEAKER_05]: Olivia likes to read a head as much as you can.
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_05]: I kind of like to take the character as I don't know what happens next week.
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, so I want to react to it as I only know what has happened in the past
[SPEAKER_05]: Now I didn't realize there was going to be flashbacks and stuff that I would also know that might have been kind of cool, but but either either way, and plus when I actually listen to the show, it leaves room for surprises for me.
[SPEAKER_05]: you know like I want to go back and listen to things and like oh shoot I didn't know that happened that's cool that's I've really enjoyed that you know so um but honestly Paul like without your writing the show wouldn't be any good the show wouldn't exist great none of us would be on this call so thank you Paul for yes this is all I want to jump it in a lot but
[SPEAKER_03]: Do it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, talking about that, just I know none of you guys know Paul like I do and of known him near as long as I have.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what you need to know if you don't already and maybe Jason does the people that he's talked more more with, Paul has been doing this for quite a few years now.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he did mention the most of the stuff nearly everything he had written to this point was to be filmed.
[SPEAKER_03]: But Paul has entered a lot of contests.
[SPEAKER_03]: and pretty high level contests that he has won.
[SPEAKER_03]: He is a really, really, really talented writer and he has won a lot of big contests and he has come this close to hitting it big with this.
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think he's still can and probably still will.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this may be another stepping stone too that, but yeah, I've read a lot of his stuff that he's written over the years and it's all top notch.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm the very first thing he ever wrote.
[SPEAKER_03]: was a sitcom called Oh brother wasn't that was it wasn't just oh brother.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, yeah, we're going to we're going to do that Okay, okay, well my favorite thing about it was that one of the main characters was based on me I was gonna I was gonna mention that
[SPEAKER_03]: But anyway, I mean, this is a talent that Guy were working with.
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, seriously, I've wrote a lot of the stuff that he's written and I think, you know, that big break is just his close and I appreciate you saying that, but that's, and that's really gets to the heart of what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_07]: For me personally, I am trying to create an opportunity for myself to get my work out there, to just get get something produced.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is so difficult as a screenwriter to get anything made.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I had a fellowship experience that was the main advice that came out of it from somebody that really knows what they're doing and they were like, you know, you can't wait for anybody else to make your stuff.
[SPEAKER_07]: You've got to get out and start producing stuff on your own.
[SPEAKER_07]: And with my background and broadcasting, they were like, look, you know, you've been, you were in radio for how many years.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so I have some management experience and all these different qualities that kind of, you know, I look back, it's like, yeah, kind of come together on a project just like this.
[SPEAKER_07]: And so, yeah, for me personally, this is about, you know, me getting my material made and out there and in front of people and hoping that the right person hears it,
[SPEAKER_07]: But get it in the right ear.
[SPEAKER_07]: It really has shifted for me, though, too.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I mean this sincerely, it's like, I think why, why would I hog that for myself?
[SPEAKER_07]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_07]: Why can't this be something that creates opportunity for other people like me?
[SPEAKER_07]: So we're going to do stuff that's written by other people.
[SPEAKER_07]: So we're going to do written by other writers.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to be bringing in other directors, people that want to direct that feel like they can't make people like me, that are just like you say, this close, but just can't quite punch through.
[SPEAKER_07]: So it's like, here's an opportunity to come in and direct, and lead a cast and make casting choices and creative choices.
[SPEAKER_07]: And for the voice actors, you know, it's like that's why I want to mix of experienced people and people are new at it because I want this to be a mechanism where
[SPEAKER_07]: people who are talented and can't quite bus through have an opportunity to be heard by more people and to be put in front of you know people that are that are you know working on bigger projects and and this is just it's a way to not only have fun making stuff because you know we're going to do that for sure but yeah it's a way to
[SPEAKER_07]: Hopefully, if we can grow this into something bigger, it's a way to get all different forms of talent out there and in front of people.
[SPEAKER_07]: Like you said, it's just whether it's the right here, somebody hears my writing and they're like, oh, yeah, okay, that's great.
[SPEAKER_07]: Are they here?
[SPEAKER_07]: They hear Jared, or Matt, or Jason, or Olivia, and wow, that voice is perfect for this character.
[SPEAKER_07]: And all of a sudden, that creates an opportunity, or like I said, a director, it's,
[SPEAKER_07]: I, I want, I would love it, you know, if, if any one person was able to use this as a springboard to something else, that I mean, that's a win.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a win.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Paul, just, just so, you know, that does happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have been reached out to multiple times.
[SPEAKER_02]: For various projects I've been in where someone has heard or seen me somewhere and then they have found my website And then they've message me.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's Yeah, that's not very talking right that that stuff actually happens.
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, but it's a matter of doing it, right?
[SPEAKER_07]: It's it's like it doesn't happen if you don't produce something If you don't participate in a project if you don't get your voice out there if you don't get your writing out there You know whatever it it can't be discovered
[SPEAKER_07]: So yeah, the advice was get start producing and so that's that's what we're going to do So yeah, it's it's it's great the Jared that you say that that that it's not an impossible scenario That it is it is worth pursuing so we'll keep pursuing it
[SPEAKER_07]: So I guess that's a pretty good place to wrap up right there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Justin, you're ready.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Fair to do the need to.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what we got.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm sitting there thinking the whole time.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what we need to end on.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, we'll get there.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, we'll do.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll close this out just in.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then you want to put the cap on it, like you do every episode.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, shit.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I just want to remind everybody that we have, we do have new projects that are in production.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to be dropping soon.
[SPEAKER_07]: All the voices you heard tonight.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hopefully you've got to know them.
[SPEAKER_07]: Everybody here tonight's going to be featured on future projects.
[SPEAKER_07]: But dropping next, we have a kind of a different kind of project, a narrated short story featuring Matt Candelario, a narrator, Ralph Duke, Jared Griffiths, both of those, all three of those guys are in the very
[SPEAKER_07]: We're also introducing two new, new voices, Phoebe Ryvicker and Larry Womack, new, new, two crooked stories, and then after that, as we talked a little bit about Gary Howell joins the team to direct alien press conference, which is kind of a silly standalone comedy short featuring Harry Dyer with an out of this world performance that you're just absolutely, you have to hear it to believe it.
[SPEAKER_07]: So, from the team for Justin, myself, everybody else,
[SPEAKER_07]: We hope you enjoyed it and see you on the lookout because we are we are planning a season two So that's gonna wrap for tonight.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you everybody for joining us and we hope to see you again soon in a quick story see you later They're coming to find you
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.