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Radio Play: Metal Bits
EDIT: This is a side thing. This is not replacing threads. It is for fun and on the side. And I got confused with what Vi and I talked about, so I took that bit about the voting out.

I know while Scribbld was down I told people about this on Instant Messenger, but I thought I'd make an official post too to tell those who don't appear on IM and whatnot.

Earlier, I wrote, directed, and edited a Girl Genius style radio play that I called 'Metal Bits'. Here is a link to the download. And here is a link to the script I gave everyone, but if you listen carefully there was a good deal of ad-liping by the end. The play has three parts and is just shy of 21 minutes long in total length.

I know I did a verbal disclaimer at the beginning, but I thought I would remind everyone here that this is a complete unprofessional production. None of us are real actors, so don't think this is going to be extremely nice quality anything.

Here, if you are curious, is a cast list (in order by appearance):
Narrator - 'Liztor' (hopefully Riddick-mun)
Agatha Heterodyne - Shay (Agatha-mun)
The Doctor - Melissa (Doctor-mun)
Sena Kobayakawa - Amy (Sena-mun)
Haruhi Fujioka - 'Liztor'
Person (or Heartless) - 'Claire' (not involved with the RP)
Shadow Link - 'Liztor'
Sound effects - 'Claire'

Also, its not mentioned verbally, but Sena-mun (who was playing Sena) was not there in person. She had her voice beamed live-time over the internet via voice chat. In hindsight I observed that I should have moved the microphone closer to the computer speakers so that she wouldn't have had to have her voice amplified and be competing with paper shifting noises. Either way, her voice being so crappy comes from the fact it came out of a computer speaker and was too far from the microphone.

Don't worry, I have developed several solutions for this so that I can do distance voices more successfully in the future.

Another thing is that I am writing two more plays. You don't have to audition if you want your characters to play a part in one of these productions nor do you actually have to act. Your characters can participate without your voice in the thing. I'm not trying to exclude people without microphones or those that are deaf if they want to enjoy the scripts and see what people are saying. In Metal Bits Haruhi Fujioka and Shadow Link were acted by Liztor, our narrator, not by their mun (since their mun lives in another state and doesn't have a microphone). I can arrange another real life friend of mine to come in and do the acting for you.

What I will need your help with, should you choose to participate, is editing your character's lines. What I did for the first play and will be doing for one of the second plays, is that I wrote the script then had the muns come back and edit and correct all of the lines until they were in character to their satisfactory. Once everyone had done this, I read the entire thing outloud and edited a few things to make them a little easier to say. After that the muns came in for another in character checking once over and the script was agreed as offical. The advantage of this method is things can be done one your time and don't require a lot of work on your part. The disadvantage is that is does take several days and does involve a lot of editing and harrassing of people on my end.

The other second play will be written in a style Jackie suggested (being a nerd I am comparing the two methods to see which is better). The second method will be getting all of the actors together in a group chat, telling them what the plot is and having them act out their part. This method is nice because, therodically it involves less editing from all of the muns (except myself). And by except myself I mean that I have to transcribe the chat into a script and clean up instant messenger grammar and then make lines more sayable. I might have to remove things that get extremely off topic and I might have to adjust things so that the entire plot flows together. Then I will have the muns give it a once over and check for a final in characterness. The disadvantage for this method is that it does involve a little more work on my part and it involves scheduling a time when everyone involved is online. That, of course, becomes a bigger problem the more people that are involved.

Right now I've written the entire first draft script of the first of the second plays. So that one has a set cast at this point, well sort of set cast. We have a scene with Luffy and Sanji and I was wondering if the other Straw Hat pirates would like to participate in that scene.

As for the rest of the cast it is as follows (in order of apperance):
Narrator
Vio
Link
Tohru Honda
Midna
Luffy
Sanji
(Nami?)
(Zoro?)
Lelouch
Konata
Shadow Link

Despite the larger cast, this play will be shorter than Metal Bits since it only has two acts.

The other play is still in the works enough I don't have a defined cast or plot outline yet. So if you aren't included in the above cast list, you are welcome to reply here or IM if you want your characters (or yourself) to have a part in the other production.