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While some of you may have already seen this, I HAD to share this screenshot of a script for an audition I did today.

Can YOU read this?

Mandy Nelson · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:

I only saw your thread title and wanted to scream then saw the actual script. I know that not everyone (and very few of my clients) look at things through VO colored eye glasses but come on now! Doc, yours takes the cake and I may just have to post it in the studio to look at next time I get frustrated over formatting.
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KaraEdwards · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:20 pm Post subject:

wow

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Donovan · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:

umm... why? Shocked

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Moe Egan · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:31 pm Post subject:

Holy ...um, Toledo. Is this a joke?
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Lizden · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:39 pm Post subject:

Holy-Can-Not-Read-That, Batman!

Shocked

So....did ya get the gig? Rolls Eyes

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imaginator · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:46 pm Post subject:

this is strange, doc, but i opened the same audition and got it a standard font.

i'd noticed in some other things i opened with firefox that if i didn't have the exact font a doc was created in, my computer defaulted to something called "amhurst" which is a hard-to-read script. once i started digging around, i found it had somehow become the default go-to font for anything i didn't have in my computer. i changed the default to times roman and haven't seen the front problem since.

could this be part of the scenario in your case (upper case or lower?)?
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Doc · Guest

Um, Donovan - why is the sky blue? Hehehe...

Moe - nope, no joke.

Kara - "Wow" indeed!

Liz - dunno yet, but it's right up my alley. I've done several real estate VO's.

And, Rowell - thanks for the suggestion, but this is not part of the problem. I happen to have this font and my default is, as is yours, Times New Roman.

But, I tell ya - this script sure made me laugh. And, laughter is a good thing.

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject:

and ... only unhip food is allowed in the complex, i guess.
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Diane Havens · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

Actually, I had no problem reading this, but then I taught elementary school for some years and often their research papers were handed in in similar fonts.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject:

The version you got was actually easier to read than the one I got. When I opened the audition (on Voices.com) the copy I got was in 10 point Ariel or some similarly nondescript font. I normally just set up my mic in front of the computer screen and read the audition copy, but I had to copy that piece and paste it into Wordpad and enlarge it to 16 point type just to make it big enough to read off the screen.

CarynClark · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

egads.
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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:

Now that I've looked at it (tequila helps it look better) I like the idea of a food condominium. And an eating bar. What does it eat, I wonder?
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Drew · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

Y'all hit delete, right? No doubt it was one of those dollar a holler gigs.
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AllisonScussel · Guest

What ever happened to the simple ARIEL font?