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Jeffrey Kafer

So there's a brand new animation gig at V123. The post describes about 20 characters and then pastes in the ENTIRE script as the audition. I can't make heards nor tales of what they are looking for. Is it just me or should they post 1 gig per character and provide one snippet of lines for the audition as opposed to letting people cherry-pick the lines they want to audition with?

Did anyone else see this completely lame post?
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asnively · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

I just sent a generic animation demo, quoted no price, and said "I'd love to learn more about this fun project!"
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todd ellis · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject:

It made my head hurt - so I deleted it.
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asnively · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject:

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TOTALLY agree with Todd... I deleted it too...and I thought as I was doing it...that I probably would have had a better shot at it since no one was actually going to pick through all that garbage to figure out how to audition!

Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject:

Last count says they had 53 people audition. This is rather low for most and I'm guessing people just had no idea where to begin. Shame, too. Not many animation things come through there.
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ronharpervoice · Club 300 Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 347 Location: Ohio

That same post was on Voices.com hmmmmm.
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LaurenLee · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:03 am Post subject:

I just deleted it too. One of my personal V123 rules is to delete any post that is full of spelling/grammar errors or is just plain incoherent. Says a lot about the minds that I'd be working with.
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bobsouer · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:14 am Post subject:

ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject:

It's when you get a call from one of your agents with the same audition that is on both Voice123 and Voices.com that it gets REALLY ridiculous! (That happened a couple of weeks ago.) That's casting far too wide a net my friends.
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Yoda117 · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject:

Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject:

bobsouer · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:36 pm Post subject:

Jeff,

You are on your own.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

Yoda117 · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject:

there's a "legal insurance" program through State Farm that I use.

Basically, you pay a rate, and if you were to need a lawyer for civil matters, they help you out.

Considering that a strongly worded letter usually gets the beatniks to pay, it's been a good investment for me.
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