Nicole B Dolan
Storm P Brown
Zach NeSmith
Jennifer James
Chicquito Joaquim Crasto
Matthew Cook
Victor Warren
Cheri Calvert
Ray Wolinski
Ray Lisnewski
Nikki Lynch
Patrick Hyndes Darnell II
Spellbound Narrator Auditions (Updated 10/11/2020 at 12:15pm EST)
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Definitely Patrick. I like Nikki too but I have a preference for a male voice (don’t know why, just do).
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Cool. Thanks!
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I like Nikki. But if she were a bit more slower and with more expression to her tone. Perfect!
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Plus, we can ask them to tweak it so it’ll be even better.
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that sounds perfect. I wonder if this is an audition for one of your writings. I would like to audition too 🙂 but i would not have a typical american/ British accent.
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Yes, they are auditioning for an anthology I contributed stories to. The one they’re reading is mine.
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oh! that sounds nice. sounds a nice story.
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I found Matthews reading to be to slow for my taste and Nikki’s is a bit to high pitched. Patrick has a pleasant voice and the tone and pace is right for me.
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I agree across the board. I like it when the narrators first read is close to what I had in mind.
Nikki was too squeaky with the child voice but I thought she was the right amount of drama. I sent her the link to my video because I read the story there, so she could have a better idea of what I had in mind. Matthew’s pacing was a little slow and his characters lacked drama. Patrick did best overall but I may send him the video, too, so her can take a second shot at it.
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Sounds good, Dan. For me the narrator is so important. I’ve had a few great books ruined for me by poor narration.
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I think it’s impossible for a narrator to vocalize what we have in our heads. If you listen to me read that short story I wrote, even I only get probably about 90% of what I was going for. And I know what’s coming. Multiply that by 27 stories and 14 authors and you are going to have a lot of different people with a lot of different expectations.
But in the end I like to conclude that what’s in my head is not necessarily with the reader is going to read and interpret. Therefore, what the narrator does is allowed to be different and that’s what’s going to be delivered to the reader. There’s nothing that says my version was what was going to be in the readers head when they read it anyway.
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A great explanation, Dan. Thanks. I liked your version.
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I preffered Mathew but he needed a bit more inflection. Truthfully, none feel wuite right, from that first read.
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And that’s the challenge. No one will do it the way it’s in you’re head but some will have a better feel for the material than others.
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Sorry I meant Patrick! Patrick was the better one.
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Thanks for the correction.
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Patrick!
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Thanks, Frank!
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Hm, now I’m torn between Patrick and Ray. Maybe still Patrick though? He seems to have more feeling behind his reading.
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We will see. There’s an opportunity for them to take another bite at the Apple
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I still like Patrick from the first round and this second round, Cheri is streets ahead of the other readers, with strong alterations in speed and voice for different characters.
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Patrick and Cheri are drawn 1st place preferance.
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I liked Ray Lisnewski, Patrick and Jennifer James the best.
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I Listened to them all again, and Patrick has the clearest voice.
Chicquito Joaquim Crasto has a rich tone despite the name I hear a Scottish lilt. Cheri is for me the best female voice.
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I still like the first Patrick best, but boy Chicquito is mesmerising. Like Ellen said, there’s a delicious Scottish lilt there that takes me straight to the highlands. He’s be fabulous if the whole book was set in Scotland.
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