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Voice needed for documentary.
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Sea Monsters is a large format, 3D, National Geographic documentary. It will open in the fall of this year and play in IMAX theaters. The film goes back and forth between photo-realistic animation of sea creatures from 82 million years ago and fossil digs that have taken place over this past century. These digs inform our underwater story and tell us how we know what we know.
We are looking for voice over talent to ADR lines from the opening and close of the film for our main character – a female paleontologist in her late 30’s / early 40’s. This character also narrates the film, which is just under 40 minutes. Dr. Richards is a Caucasian, American woman. She should not have a discernable accent. She is educated (she’s also a professor) and scientific yet personable.
COMMENTS FROM DIRECTOR
It's important for the talent to know that we are looking for a voice actor as well as a narrator. This character/narrator is a female paleontologist in her late thirties. A paleontologist primarily looks at fossilized bones of ancient animals and reconstructs what they looked like and how they lived millions of years ago.
As the narrator she is our storyteller and needs to sound believable as a scientist but must also be engaging and personable.
This female paleontologist character has on-screen ADR lines that will be needed to replace the existing actress. In those scenes she's discovered a new fossil whose life she recreates in the course of the film as the narrator. These on screen lines are a bit like a detective show in the sense that she is there to find out what creature the fossilized bones belong to and what they might reveal about its life.
We would like to listen to reads of the script provided.
Budget $ 750 - 999
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We are looking for voice over talent to ADR lines from the opening and close of the film for our main character – a female paleontologist in her late 30’s / early 40’s. This character also narrates the film, which is just under 40 minutes. Dr. Richards is a Caucasian, American woman. She should not have a discernable accent. She is educated (she’s also a professor) and scientific yet personable.
COMMENTS FROM DIRECTOR
It's important for the talent to know that we are looking for a voice actor as well as a narrator. This character/narrator is a female paleontologist in her late thirties. A paleontologist primarily looks at fossilized bones of ancient animals and reconstructs what they looked like and how they lived millions of years ago.
As the narrator she is our storyteller and needs to sound believable as a scientist but must also be engaging and personable.
This female paleontologist character has on-screen ADR lines that will be needed to replace the existing actress. In those scenes she's discovered a new fossil whose life she recreates in the course of the film as the narrator. These on screen lines are a bit like a detective show in the sense that she is there to find out what creature the fossilized bones belong to and what they might reveal about its life.
We would like to listen to reads of the script provided.
Budget $ 750 - 999
@ May 02, 2007 16:29:20 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) May 09, 2007 00:00:00 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) No (click here to learn more about
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Closed
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0 direct invitation(s) have been sent by the voice seeker resulting in 0 audition(s) and/or proposal(s) so far.
Project Parameters
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Flexible - USD 999
Promos
English - North American
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Middle Age Female
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There are no special pre-, post-, or production requirements for this project.
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Script Details
Yes
ADR LINES
So what do we know? Depositional environment?
So we’ve got a time frame. It’s a start.
Rain washed some of the chalk away and exposed it. This is great. Okay let's identify it.
We may have to plaster the whole thing and take it out in a jacket.
OPENING
Beneath the earth we know lie other worlds, hidden from sight, lost in time … until a piece of the distant past is discovered.
And that’s how this story begins … with unidentified bones.
As a paleontologist, it’s my job to figure out who the bones belong to.
They were discovered in Kansas, mostly farmland today … but once, Kansas lay beneath a vast sea.
It was 82 million years ago … during the age of dinosaurs.
Great beasts roamed the land and sky.
But there was another world of giants on Earth … the shadowy world submerged in the sea…
...where enormous reptiles ruled waters filled with strange creatures.
These were the most dangerous seas of all time.
No living thing was safe.
Styxo Scene
So many small bones suggest that marine reptiles gathered in protected shallows to give birth … and that’s how our dolly may have started her life in North America … … …
And in my mind’s eye, a story begins to unfold.
Imagine that one of these creatures in the shallows is a pregnant Dolichorhynchops.
She gives birth to a male, 18 inches long and colored like his mother…
… and a female, lighter in color, with distinctive patches below her eyes. And it’s HER life I begin to envision.
She and her brother are air breathers
… and instinct tells them what they have to do in their first minute alive.
For now, it’s all about learning to survive. One day they’ll have to journey into the dangerous sea beyond. If the little female learns well, she can make it back to these waters to have young of her own.
Already, she finds competition for food…
There’s the Hesperornis … a bird that can’t fly … and has a beak full of teeth.
And the Styxosaur, a distant cousin of the dollies with a super-sized neck.
An adult can reach 35 feet in length – more than half of it neck.
Its shape makes it a slower swimmer, but it’s great for catching fish.
CLOSE
The female dolichorynchops has returned to tell her story after 82 million years.
Countless other stories lie hidden within the layers of Earth … waiting for us to find them … to decipher them … to learn of lost worlds ruled by giants … and of creatures like the dolly, and her extraordinary life in the most dangerous seas of all time.
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE:
Dolichorynchops – dolly-cor-RHINE-cops
Hesperornis – hess-oer-OR-Nis
Styxosaur – STICKS-o-sore
ADR LINES
So what do we know? Depositional environment?
So we’ve got a time frame. It’s a start.
Rain washed some of the chalk away and exposed it. This is great. Okay let's identify it.
We may have to plaster the whole thing and take it out in a jacket.
OPENING
Beneath the earth we know lie other worlds, hidden from sight, lost in time … until a piece of the distant past is discovered.
And that’s how this story begins … with unidentified bones.
As a paleontologist, it’s my job to figure out who the bones belong to.
They were discovered in Kansas, mostly farmland today … but once, Kansas lay beneath a vast sea.
It was 82 million years ago … during the age of dinosaurs.
Great beasts roamed the land and sky.
But there was another world of giants on Earth … the shadowy world submerged in the sea…
...where enormous reptiles ruled waters filled with strange creatures.
These were the most dangerous seas of all time.
No living thing was safe.
Styxo Scene
So many small bones suggest that marine reptiles gathered in protected shallows to give birth … and that’s how our dolly may have started her life in North America … … …
And in my mind’s eye, a story begins to unfold.
Imagine that one of these creatures in the shallows is a pregnant Dolichorhynchops.
She gives birth to a male, 18 inches long and colored like his mother…
… and a female, lighter in color, with distinctive patches below her eyes. And it’s HER life I begin to envision.
She and her brother are air breathers
… and instinct tells them what they have to do in their first minute alive.
For now, it’s all about learning to survive. One day they’ll have to journey into the dangerous sea beyond. If the little female learns well, she can make it back to these waters to have young of her own.
Already, she finds competition for food…
There’s the Hesperornis … a bird that can’t fly … and has a beak full of teeth.
And the Styxosaur, a distant cousin of the dollies with a super-sized neck.
An adult can reach 35 feet in length – more than half of it neck.
Its shape makes it a slower swimmer, but it’s great for catching fish.
CLOSE
The female dolichorynchops has returned to tell her story after 82 million years.
Countless other stories lie hidden within the layers of Earth … waiting for us to find them … to decipher them … to learn of lost worlds ruled by giants … and of creatures like the dolly, and her extraordinary life in the most dangerous seas of all time.
So what do we know? Depositional environment?
So we’ve got a time frame. It’s a start.
Rain washed some of the chalk away and exposed it. This is great. Okay let's identify it.
We may have to plaster the whole thing and take it out in a jacket.
OPENING
Beneath the earth we know lie other worlds, hidden from sight, lost in time … until a piece of the distant past is discovered.
And that’s how this story begins … with unidentified bones.
As a paleontologist, it’s my job to figure out who the bones belong to.
They were discovered in Kansas, mostly farmland today … but once, Kansas lay beneath a vast sea.
It was 82 million years ago … during the age of dinosaurs.
Great beasts roamed the land and sky.
But there was another world of giants on Earth … the shadowy world submerged in the sea…
...where enormous reptiles ruled waters filled with strange creatures.
These were the most dangerous seas of all time.
No living thing was safe.
Styxo Scene
So many small bones suggest that marine reptiles gathered in protected shallows to give birth … and that’s how our dolly may have started her life in North America … … …
And in my mind’s eye, a story begins to unfold.
Imagine that one of these creatures in the shallows is a pregnant Dolichorhynchops.
She gives birth to a male, 18 inches long and colored like his mother…
… and a female, lighter in color, with distinctive patches below her eyes. And it’s HER life I begin to envision.
She and her brother are air breathers
… and instinct tells them what they have to do in their first minute alive.
For now, it’s all about learning to survive. One day they’ll have to journey into the dangerous sea beyond. If the little female learns well, she can make it back to these waters to have young of her own.
Already, she finds competition for food…
There’s the Hesperornis … a bird that can’t fly … and has a beak full of teeth.
And the Styxosaur, a distant cousin of the dollies with a super-sized neck.
An adult can reach 35 feet in length – more than half of it neck.
Its shape makes it a slower swimmer, but it’s great for catching fish.
CLOSE
The female dolichorynchops has returned to tell her story after 82 million years.
Countless other stories lie hidden within the layers of Earth … waiting for us to find them … to decipher them … to learn of lost worlds ruled by giants … and of creatures like the dolly, and her extraordinary life in the most dangerous seas of all time.
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE:
Dolichorynchops – dolly-cor-RHINE-cops
Hesperornis – hess-oer-OR-Nis
Styxosaur – STICKS-o-sore
ADR LINES
So what do we know? Depositional environment?
So we’ve got a time frame. It’s a start.
Rain washed some of the chalk away and exposed it. This is great. Okay let's identify it.
We may have to plaster the whole thing and take it out in a jacket.
OPENING
Beneath the earth we know lie other worlds, hidden from sight, lost in time … until a piece of the distant past is discovered.
And that’s how this story begins … with unidentified bones.
As a paleontologist, it’s my job to figure out who the bones belong to.
They were discovered in Kansas, mostly farmland today … but once, Kansas lay beneath a vast sea.
It was 82 million years ago … during the age of dinosaurs.
Great beasts roamed the land and sky.
But there was another world of giants on Earth … the shadowy world submerged in the sea…
...where enormous reptiles ruled waters filled with strange creatures.
These were the most dangerous seas of all time.
No living thing was safe.
Styxo Scene
So many small bones suggest that marine reptiles gathered in protected shallows to give birth … and that’s how our dolly may have started her life in North America … … …
And in my mind’s eye, a story begins to unfold.
Imagine that one of these creatures in the shallows is a pregnant Dolichorhynchops.
She gives birth to a male, 18 inches long and colored like his mother…
… and a female, lighter in color, with distinctive patches below her eyes. And it’s HER life I begin to envision.
She and her brother are air breathers
… and instinct tells them what they have to do in their first minute alive.
For now, it’s all about learning to survive. One day they’ll have to journey into the dangerous sea beyond. If the little female learns well, she can make it back to these waters to have young of her own.
Already, she finds competition for food…
There’s the Hesperornis … a bird that can’t fly … and has a beak full of teeth.
And the Styxosaur, a distant cousin of the dollies with a super-sized neck.
An adult can reach 35 feet in length – more than half of it neck.
Its shape makes it a slower swimmer, but it’s great for catching fish.
CLOSE
The female dolichorynchops has returned to tell her story after 82 million years.
Countless other stories lie hidden within the layers of Earth … waiting for us to find them … to decipher them … to learn of lost worlds ruled by giants … and of creatures like the dolly, and her extraordinary life in the most dangerous seas of all time.
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