Voice Actor Email Help?

[sir5000]

Coo-ee, fellow flashimators!

Well, guys, I seem to be a little sticky situation here. I'm planning to make another one of my flash videos (they're not on NG), and I plan to have Noah Antwiler (A.K.A. "Spoony"), and Lewis Lovhaug (A.K.A Linkara).

With these two, I planned to do a little shapes-bouncing-on-a-grey-line animation involving Dr. Insano and Linkara. (Don't judge this animation too quickly).

The only problem is that I can't write my little e-mail to these guys properly! What I'm heading towards is a little formal e-mail and yet a wee bit casual. Any suggestions?

[sir5000]

Just bumping this to get more feedback.

[Noray]

They are voice actors right? thats what they do in their spare time? Then just email them saying you need a voice actor and were hoping they would do it. Give them an example of the script and of what you want and thats it.
Don't worry about being formal or informal, it doesn't matter.

[sir5000]

Bumping for more feedback.

[sir5000]

Bumping this for more help.

[geist-seig]

Be formal and polite, and state what you'd like in a straight forward manner.

[sir5000]

At 5/3/09 09:05 PM, geist-seig wrote: Be formal and polite, and state what you'd like in a straight forward manner.

Write an example, please?

[Rina-chan]

At 5/2/09 12:36 AM, Noray wrote: They are voice actors right? thats what they do in their spare time? Then just email them saying you need a voice actor and were hoping they would do it. Give them an example of the script and of what you want and thats it.
Don't worry about being formal or informal, it doesn't matter.

Seconding this.

To be honest, I think it's really funny when people from Newgrounds write overly formal, pretentious sounding e-mails asking me to voice for their flashes. XD I mean, I'd take it over "hi i need viovce for amy in my sonic flash movie cud u pls hlep????" but it's still amusing.

[Rina-chan]

Oh, the other thing is...if they're popular VAs, they probably get a lot of requests. They'd rather just hear what you need than have a HUGE wall of text with a whole bunch of extra background on why you chose them and your entire flash history etc etc. When you get a lot of these lengthy emails on a regular basis, it can be difficult to wade through them all and figure out exactly what the producer wants you to do. It's better to just concisely describe the project and ask if they might be interested.

[sir5000]

Thanks for all the help, guys! Even you, Kira!