Author Topic: I will pay you to write soundsets! $$$! (I am not kidding!)  (Read 3069 times)

Offline jcompton

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Okay, maybe more like $ than $$$, but I seriously will pay you to write PC soundsets for The Broken Hourglass. $15$30 each, payable either by check drawn on US funds, or PayPal (sorry, it's not a big enough sum to justify the horrendous fees for an international wire transfer.)

Our PC soundsets are similar but not identical to Infinity soundsets--our events are slightly different, we have more of them, and we can have any number of lines per event (and customized rarity, too.) You will have guideline targets for each category, and no soundset should exceed 80 lines.

We are looking for interesting character personalities, and by "interesting" I specifically mean I don't want to see Whedonesque smug glib quip-spewers. (Maybe one. Maybe.) The protagonist is a man or woman without a home or family, in a desperate situation, leading a heavily improvised band of vigilantes, criminals, entertainers, and would-be do-gooders. Most protagonist PC types are not "career adventurers" in the "Let's do this, quick and painful!" model but people thrust into a difficult circumstance with no way out but through.

Criteria:

- I want them soon. Like, by this time next week. Sooner is even better.

- They should include a few sentences of guidance for a voice actor ("This gravelly-voiced character should sound very barbed, but with a hidden gentleness underneath that comes out in lines X, Y, and Z" or "This young woman should be overconfident to the point of serious distraction, projecting every line from the diaphragm like she's addressing 10,000 troops", etc. Avoid "This character is like Imoen, if she had a thick Icelandic accent" or other BG2 references because the actors are not BG2-literate. Mainstream pop-culture soundalike references are okay, but try not to rely on them.)

- Volume is a plus. I would rather have one person write six than six people write one.

- Your status as an EFL or indistinguishable ESL is a major plus plus plus. I don't want to edit these for grammar, I want to get them to the actors very quickly.

If you're interested, PM or e-mail me with a couple of character concepts consisting of, let's say, 6-10 lines each (feel free to use Infinity soundset events as guides, they're basically all applicable), and your earnest bid as to how many you can complete by end-of-day Friday the 10th. We will buy 12-14 total.
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Re: I will pay you to write soundsets! $$$! (I am not kidding!)
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2007, 11:15:47 AM »
Well, I can't figure out if the lack of response is due to the money, the "don't hand me a Firefly best-of" or the preference for correct English grammar. I can't do anything about the latter two but I can fix the former, so I've upped the offer.
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Re: I will pay you to write soundsets! $$$! (I am not kidding!)
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2007, 05:49:27 PM »
You've most likely already gobbled up all the available, capable and willing people for TBH. Either the idea of a 10 line monologue everytime a PC is hit scares people so much or you will have to make offerings to foreign gods and make do with the tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to breathe free in the nearby tribal villages.


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Re: I will pay you to write soundsets! $$$! (I am not kidding!)
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2007, 09:49:02 AM »
I would volunteer for free, but completely was unable to come up with anything. This is not my forte - waht littel i could come up with sounded like bad "B movie" garbage. I am afraid it is just not in the cards for me.

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Re: I will pay you to write soundsets! $$$! (I am not kidding!)
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2007, 09:52:02 AM »
Soundsets aren't fun or easy--that's why I'm having to offer to pay strangers to write them. :)
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Re: I will pay you to write soundsets! $$$! (I am not kidding!)
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2007, 03:25:29 PM »
I'm working on one, but doing it piecemeal, on my lunchbreaks. I don't want anybody to pay me for it.

I do want a list of the events that get sounds per soundset, because if I can write 8 to 10 lines per day, it's still going to take all week.

 

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