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Audition demos for Rome; Death of an Empire, 13 one hour documentaries for The History Channel. Re-enactment footage combined with scholar interviews, narration. Episodes deal with the reasons for the fall of the Empire including attacks by Barbarians. Narrator needs to have gravitas, emotion and compelling storytelling ability. A medium pace. Auditions should be on MP3, please read all copy. It will be cut to picture for the executive producer's choice of narrator. Recording sessions by ISDN. 13 sessions with pick-ups.
Apr 23, 2007 20:06:33 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Apr 30, 2007 00:00:00 (GMT -05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Flexible - USD 1000
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English - North American
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Middle Age Male
• ISDN
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Rome; Death of an Empire
Gardner Films for The History Channel
NARRATOR
In the beginning, there is no empire, no emperor.
By the sixth century BC, Rome is ruled not by one man, but many. It calls itself the Republic, and it prides itself on a government elected for and by the the people.
Yet even as the Roman Republic climbs to its zenith, the foundation begins to crack. Political corruption threatens to topple its fragile democracy.
NARRATOR
In 114 BC, Rome’s streets churn with nobles, merchants, peasants and slaves from across the Mediterranean world. All are bound together in a complicated network of obligation and service.
Patrons like Gnaeus Papirius Carbo [ NAY-IS PA- PEER-US CAR-BOW] work hard to extend their influence among their clients.
NARRATOR
In Rome, poor does not mean powerless. For all free men have the right to vote.
If Carbo aspires to high office, he must curry favor with the mob. With corn and coins, he baldly buys support.
NARRATOR
AS POLITICIANS LIKE CARBO RESORT TO SUCH TRICKS, TROUBLING RUMORS SPREAD ABOUT THE RULING CLASS ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN HISTORIAN SALLUST.
SALLUST (EDGY MALE VOICE)
Growing love of money, and the lust for power which followed it, gave birth to every kind of evil. Avarice destroyed honor and integrity, and instead taught men to be proud and cruel, to neglect religion, and to hold nothing too sacred to sell.
NARRATOR
Hostility towards the aristocracy reaches fever pitch with a religious scandal.
The Vestal Virgins care for the temple of the god Vesta. As daughters of Rome’s most exalted families, they are held to the highest moral standard. So when gossip places the Virgins at the center of blasphemous sex orgies, the Romans are outraged. The depravity of the nobles has sunk to new lows.
The nobility must deflect attention from themselves. They claim the gods order a terrible sacrifice to atone for the crime…
Four barbarians are to be buried alive.
The grisly event shifts the mob’s focus to a common enemy, the despised barbarians. $1000 +
Rome; Death of an Empire
Gardner Films for The History Channel
NARRATOR
In the beginning, there is no empire, no emperor.
By the sixth century BC, Rome is ruled not by one man, but many. It calls itself the Republic, and it prides itself on a government elected for and by the the people.
Yet even as the Roman Republic climbs to its zenith, the foundation begins to crack. Political corruption threatens to topple its fragile democracy.
NARRATOR
In 114 BC, Rome’s streets churn with nobles, merchants, peasants and slaves from across the Mediterranean world. All are bound together in a complicated network of obligation and service.
Patrons like Gnaeus Papirius Carbo [ NAY-IS PA- PEER-US CAR-BOW] work hard to extend their influence among their clients.
NARRATOR
In Rome, poor does not mean powerless. For all free men have the right to vote.
If Carbo aspires to high office, he must curry favor with the mob. With corn and coins, he baldly buys support.
NARRATOR
AS POLITICIANS LIKE CARBO RESORT TO SUCH TRICKS, TROUBLING RUMORS SPREAD ABOUT THE RULING CLASS ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN HISTORIAN SALLUST.
SALLUST (EDGY MALE VOICE)
Growing love of money, and the lust for power which followed it, gave birth to every kind of evil. Avarice destroyed honor and integrity, and instead taught men to be proud and cruel, to neglect religion, and to hold nothing too sacred to sell.
NARRATOR
Hostility towards the aristocracy reaches fever pitch with a religious scandal.
The Vestal Virgins care for the temple of the god Vesta. As daughters of Rome’s most exalted families, they are held to the highest moral standard. So when gossip places the Virgins at the center of blasphemous sex orgies, the Romans are outraged. The depravity of the nobles has sunk to new lows.
The nobility must deflect attention from themselves. They claim the gods order a terrible sacrifice to atone for the crime…
Four barbarians are to be buried alive.
The grisly event shifts the mob’s focus to a common enemy, the despised barbarians.
Rome; Death of an Empire
Gardner Films for The History Channel
NARRATOR
In the beginning, there is no empire, no emperor.
By the sixth century BC, Rome is ruled not by one man, but many. It calls itself the Republic, and it prides itself on a government elected for and by the the people.
Yet even as the Roman Republic climbs to its zenith, the foundation begins to crack. Political corruption threatens to topple its fragile democracy.
NARRATOR
In 114 BC, Rome’s streets churn with nobles, merchants, peasants and slaves from across the Mediterranean world. All are bound together in a complicated network of obligation and service.
Patrons like Gnaeus Papirius Carbo [ NAY-IS PA- PEER-US CAR-BOW] work hard to extend their influence among their clients.
NARRATOR
In Rome, poor does not mean powerless. For all free men have the right to vote.
If Carbo aspires to high office, he must curry favor with the mob. With corn and coins, he baldly buys support.
NARRATOR
AS POLITICIANS LIKE CARBO RESORT TO SUCH TRICKS, TROUBLING RUMORS SPREAD ABOUT THE RULING CLASS ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN HISTORIAN SALLUST.
SALLUST (EDGY MALE VOICE)
Growing love of money, and the lust for power which followed it, gave birth to every kind of evil. Avarice destroyed honor and integrity, and instead taught men to be proud and cruel, to neglect religion, and to hold nothing too sacred to sell.
NARRATOR
Hostility towards the aristocracy reaches fever pitch with a religious scandal.
The Vestal Virgins care for the temple of the god Vesta. As daughters of Rome’s most exalted families, they are held to the highest moral standard. So when gossip places the Virgins at the center of blasphemous sex orgies, the Romans are outraged. The depravity of the nobles has sunk to new lows.
The nobility must deflect attention from themselves. They claim the gods order a terrible sacrifice to atone for the crime…
Four barbarians are to be buried alive.
The grisly event shifts the mob’s focus to a common enemy, the despised barbarians. $1000 +
Rome; Death of an Empire
Gardner Films for The History Channel
NARRATOR
In the beginning, there is no empire, no emperor.
By the sixth century BC, Rome is ruled not by one man, but many. It calls itself the Republic, and it prides itself on a government elected for and by the the people.
Yet even as the Roman Republic climbs to its zenith, the foundation begins to crack. Political corruption threatens to topple its fragile democracy.
NARRATOR
In 114 BC, Rome’s streets churn with nobles, merchants, peasants and slaves from across the Mediterranean world. All are bound together in a complicated network of obligation and service.
Patrons like Gnaeus Papirius Carbo [ NAY-IS PA- PEER-US CAR-BOW] work hard to extend their influence among their clients.
NARRATOR
In Rome, poor does not mean powerless. For all free men have the right to vote.
If Carbo aspires to high office, he must curry favor with the mob. With corn and coins, he baldly buys support.
NARRATOR
AS POLITICIANS LIKE CARBO RESORT TO SUCH TRICKS, TROUBLING RUMORS SPREAD ABOUT THE RULING CLASS ACCORDING TO THE ROMAN HISTORIAN SALLUST.
SALLUST (EDGY MALE VOICE)
Growing love of money, and the lust for power which followed it, gave birth to every kind of evil. Avarice destroyed honor and integrity, and instead taught men to be proud and cruel, to neglect religion, and to hold nothing too sacred to sell.
NARRATOR
Hostility towards the aristocracy reaches fever pitch with a religious scandal.
The Vestal Virgins care for the temple of the god Vesta. As daughters of Rome’s most exalted families, they are held to the highest moral standard. So when gossip places the Virgins at the center of blasphemous sex orgies, the Romans are outraged. The depravity of the nobles has sunk to new lows.
The nobility must deflect attention from themselves. They claim the gods order a terrible sacrifice to atone for the crime…
Four barbarians are to be buried alive.
The grisly event shifts the mob’s focus to a common enemy, the despised barbarians.
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