Thinking Outside the Box with Jordan Hunter Jones

I feel like it's got its origins in eighties and nineties. Disney promos, maybe like Cinderella, the story of Cinderella as she adventures out. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm not crazy. Right?

You're not.

And the other biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest pet pee is

Hello everyone and welcome back to Mission Audition, the podcast for all voice actors to join in, listen and learn. If you're new here, welcome. My name is Tara, and I'm here with my co-host, the lovely Vanessa. We invite one voiceover coach on the podcast every month to give their honest take on voiceover auditions. We are excited to welcome back the one, the only Jordan Hunter Jones

Guys.

Hello, Jordan.

Hi, Jordan.

I just want to say I am so happy to be here now. It's great to be

Back. I knew you're going to have the fake cry.

Thank you for fitting us in. You're a big movie star. I would like an autograph. And you were here last year and it was such a great episode. We had to have you back.

Well, I mean, I appreciate that. I mean, it's the least I can do. I got a voices phone charger after that in the mail, so that's really the main reason that I'm here today.

What will we send you next?

Open A pen. Oh, if it's a pen? Yeah.

Wow. Well, Jordan, welcome back. Tell the audience a bit about yourself. For those who don't know you. If you don't know him, then now you're going to know him.

Hi, yes. I'm Jordan Hunter Jones, voice and on camera actor. I've done stuff on the mic and on the camera. Some notable things, video games, battlefield 2042, final Fantasy Wizard 1 0 1, commercial Voice of the Texas Rangers for a while. I don't know, tons of national commercials. I'm actually real

Couple motion

Pictures. Couple motion pictures. Like one coming out this weekend nationally released, I don't want to mention, what's it called? Accidental Texan. A little role in the beginning with me and Rudy Panow from Outer Banks on Netflix and Thomas Hayden Church. And this follows up hypnotic where I'm in with Ben Aflac and the boys. Unreal, unreal. That's some of the stuff I've done. I'm also the real David Attenborough. He's not real. He's ai. And I come in. He's you. Yeah. The penguins will attack the polar bears. So that's me as well.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah. No, but yeah, so that's me. And I've been with voices for quite a while, usually on the audition side, but yeah, on the coaches side as well. So thank you for having me.

Yeah, we're so excited for this episode. I can already feel it's going to be so good. Jordan just has that humor and I just feel it's going to be

A great episode and such a good energy. We're inviting to all of our parties.

Oh, totally up in Canada

Actually. Can we just come to Texas? It's much warmer there.

You better come now because in about two weeks it'll be 120 degrees, which I think for you guys is seven Celsius. I'm not good at that.

That's our Vanessa. And I love the heat. That's our jam. We're lizards. We want all the heat

Long. The rule here in Austin, Texas is you have to have a horse, but that's kind of optional, but it's preferred, but you have to be in a band. So I don't know what instrument y'all play, but yeah, I'll check you with the

Be there for the vibes. I'm really good at interpretive dance. Oh,

Well, you're in.

Perfect. Okay, let's start this episode off with the artistic direction. Tara, take it away. This online ad script is to promote the Kiddo Reads reading app, aiming to appeal to parents, guardians, and educators interested in enhancing a child's love for reading. The tone should be warm, enthusiastic, and inspiring. So as always, we're going to start with audition one, and then we will jump into feedback. You ready, Jordan?

I certainly am.

I'm ready. Let's do this.

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You let us know when we're good and then we'll kick it off.

Oh, you kick it off. Kick it off. Yeah.

Okay, I'll kick this one off. I feel like this voice was very welcoming. He really did connect to the script. I felt like I could trust him in a babysitter way. I would trust him if I had children. I would trust him with my child to babysit my child. Jordan, you're just agree or disagree. I don't know that you agree with me.

I dunno what we go in in order. You going next? Am I going? Not

Annie, you go. You go. I think you'll be a good middle ground. Okay.

That's an interesting take. I'll say this. I got to tell you, with all of the ones that we are mission auditioning today, that's a verb with all of them. I'm hearing some really good talent and I'm hearing some good talent potential, meaning I'll start it off using myself first. I'm guilty of this. I have days where I have to come in and do auditions, and I know I'm like looking at my watch or the calendar, I'm looking at my billing or whatever. I'm like, I need to spend today as an audition day. And you hate to look at it like a business, but they are. They're sales calls. That's what an audition is. Oh, God, don't look at 'em like that, please. But anyway, they are. So there's times when I get in there and my daily 10, that's my gold. I like to do a little more.

I don't hate myself. I do a little less, but that's my rule. And sometimes I like to consider myself a good decent voice actor. And there's times when I will just go through the motions and I know I'm not bringing the thunder and I'm bringing my own talent as we're called voice talent. I'm bringing 40%, 60%. I'm hearing that on some of these today. I know there's a better, clearly the people we're going to talk about today did not know that we're going to be analyzing this. They would've brought their full game. This I think is one of them. Let me talk about this first one for a second. So acting 1 0 1, it says you've got to know who you're talking to in a script. You have to know it. There's a lot more to it. But on this particular script, the script itself actually has a line.

And it says right there at the end, join us at Kiddo Reeds. Join us at Kiddo Reeds. So this script just told me who I am in this. I'm a part of it. So Kiddo Reeds is not something I just passed up on the highway. Oh, what is that? I am part of it. So I'm pretty passionate about this. It's my thing. And so again, acting 1 0 1, you got to figure out who you're talking to. So I know that I'm a part of this. Kiddo Reads, who am I talking to? Well, I have a kid and I could easily, we have little gatherings, Christmas, Thanksgiving, whatever the family gathering or friends come over, and I could easily see one of my friends watching my kid. He is a vicious reader, and he sits in the corner and he does do this. So I could see us all hanging out.

One of my good friends or my neighbors who also has kids, looks over and is like, God, what are you doing to get that guy to work so much? To read so much? And my response would be this script. That's how I would deliver it. I would know that that's who I'm talking to. So I'd be sitting there, and to me, it would sound like Jordan A, how are you getting him to read so much? Well, and I'd probably grab a tablet. Well, let me show you. And I'd hand it to 'em and I'd say something like, welcome to Kiddo Reeds, where stories aren't just told they're lived. You know what I mean? Hold it. Look at that. You see what I'm talking about? And they're like, yeah, I do. I'm like, I know, right? Dive into vibrant tales, meet unforgettable characters and let their imagination soar.

And I'm like, look at this psycho. He's going nuts over this. You got electric. So that's for me what I want. And then that's kind of the way I was trained. And I'm not hearing that here. I'm hearing you more refined delivery. Now that said, it is important to note the downplay. They used to call it the millennial read, whatever you want to call it, much less backed off is pretty hot. And I'll be driving out, hear national commercials, and it's just like, I swear, it's like they're looking at their phone. Hey, you want to read the commercial? Oh, yeah. Right now I get 6.25% in all Kias for a limited time. It's kind of like this different approach, and it's big. It's kind of the undersold. So my final take on this one is I would like to hear this person talk to somebody. They're not talking to somebody on this. You can hear it. But I would definitely include this as a take two, because that undersold, that more neutralized is hot and it's acting. I don't know. I don't have all the answers, but that's my personal take on that. I would like two flavors.

Yeah, I like your feedback on that. I feel like the first one was a little choppy. I don't know if choppy is the correct word, but it just didn't flow for me. It almost was talking like this, and it just didn't sit well with me. And I think, I don't even think I listened to the full audition when we were shortlist this, because after five seconds I was just like, I can't. Do

You think he did shortcuts and then put it all together as one piece? Short editing?

It almost sounded like that, but I don't know if he did that. I

Didn't hear that, but I

Could see what you saying. Okay. Yeah, it just sounded a little choppy to me. That's all my feedback

For this one. So no one is hiring him as a babysitter like I am.

No, I'm not. I mean, I would do a second interview and have some chats with him. Like I said, I feel like there's a Michelangelo in this person, but they still need to chip some of the marble away. And the other biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest pet peeve is both takes sounded almost identical to me, and especially when I know that if they would've spoken to somebody personal to 'em, they would've sounded so good and still use this take the potential was there so good, right on the cusp.

Yeah.

That is the nice part though, from a brand perspective, that's a nice part of a live directed session is because if I enjoy his voice and I feel that the emotion is there, it's just the delivery needs a little bit of work. He seems quite coachable.

Yeah, I have no doubt. Again, I don't know anything about these individuals. I did not research them on purpose. I wanted to be unbiased. I always get those stupid biased and I wanted to be unbiased, but I can definitely hear some skill. I don't think it's his first rodeo, if

You know what I mean. No, definitely not. Yeah, totally. I totally agree with this one. But I think you hit it on the nail and you gave all the feedback that is needed for this first one.

Yeah, I agree. Are we ready to move on to number two? Yeah. Okay. Audition number two. Let's jump into it.

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Okay.

Did you want to go first again?

No, because Jordan, no one agreed with me last time, so I don't want to go first. Noah, what? Jordan, you can go first this time. Okay, let's do it. Go for it.

Alright. Okay. First off, again, there's some serious talent here. There is some flavor. I like the thing that stands out to me the most is so irrelevant, but I just desperately want to bring it up and I don't know why. Please do. Let's do it.

Let's

Bring it up. But it's just because it's interesting. It's just interesting. This is not a good or a bad thing. Make sure we're clear on that. But this is an observation that I'm hearing in the industry and we might as well talk about it because again, I don't know if it's good or bad, and since we're doing audition assessments, it'd be good to maybe for actors to be aware of this because if they're seeing a trend of not getting booked when they're doing this, maybe by knowing that it's a thing that I'm hearing, eliminate it. Or if they are hearing a trend, seeing a trend of getting booked, then do it more. So again, this is not a good thing or a bad thing. It's just something I've noticed. This one has this pattern that I hear a lot in female reads. It starts and it tends to be kid based stuff, and it starts off wispy and dreamy and it falls into a lower voice almost like, can you believe it? Welcome to Kiddo Reeds. Let me just play the very beginning of it again, and it does it throughout wispy up here and then down, and then wispy up here. And again, not a bad thing, not a good thing. I'm not saying just an observation, just listen to the first little bit.

Welcome to Kiddos Reads, where stories aren't just told they're lived.

Did you hear it? Yeah. Where stories aren't just told they're lived. And it's very

Subtle too.

It is. It starts off like dreamy and hits the, come on. I don't know what to call it again, I don't hate it. It is an odd pattern to me that I hear, and I hear many female reads, they default to this pattern a lot when it comes to kid reads. I call it ocean waving. I just decided, oh, that's a good phrase. I just decided that right here. I don't even, yeah, why not? It should

Patent that. Yeah. Makes,

I think it's got, makes sense. I feel like it's got its origins in eighties and nineties. Disney promos, maybe Cinderella, the story of Cinderella as she adventures out. You know what I mean? Yeah. I'm not crazy. Right? You're not. I do hear it a lot. I'm really not sure what else to say about it, but I will this audition as a whole, clearly this person has stretched the canvas in their career. Clearly this person's got some colors on their palette, which I love. I don't know this person or anything about 'em, but I guarantee you they're directable. You know what I mean? You can just tell. And again, that pattern thing I talked about, which is irrelevant, I just wanted to bring it up because I hear it so much and it's like somebody should at least address it. So I feel good. I feel good.

We got to flesh that out. I would love to know the booking ratio for that, the booking pattern for that technique. Maybe I could work on that. But yeah, the only thing that I hate about it is there was no second take. But again, maybe that defaults back to what I said. I've done that I'm guilty, and there's times when I'm like, I got to get some auditions out and I'm not bringing my A game. But yeah, this one very interesting. It's colorful if you're going to, in my opinion, if you're going to, not that this person blew the audition far from it, but if someone's going to blow an audition, I tell my students, I'm like, look, if you're going to blow an audition, please do too much. Do not do too little. I hate that. And I know casting directors like to go, okay, good. That was at about a seven. Let's go to a five or let's go to a six. What they hate in my experience is, okay, that was a choice. Hey, you heard about a three. Let's try maybe an eight. I don't think results have been positive that have followed that. I don't think this person would have that problem. So

Yeah, that's an interesting observation. She just needs to peel the layer back a little bit. Yeah.

I feel if she were a color, she would definitely be yellow, because I felt like her smile was there, the warmth was there. I just want her to shine a little brighter.

I also noticed that she says, kiddos reads, yes. That was something I noticed the very first time, but maybe we could play it one more time just so I don't think I'm crazy.

Okay. No one here is crazy. Actually. The jury zone on you, Jordan. I'm not sure.

Alright, so we're listening for kiddos. Here we go.

Welcome to Kiddos Reads.

Yeah, you're not crazy. I will say this. You would think that that was, yeah, you might want to get the client name correct and you're right. But at the same time, I promise you, clients, casting directors, they want you to succeed. When you open your mic up, they are rooting for you. People get intimidated. They're like, okay, all right, stop it. They're sitting there going, oh my gosh, you got this. You got this. So they

Want you to succeed.

That's amazing. Succeed. They do, because the more and fast we all want the same thing. They're just going through the people and find the one that just fits. And while, yes, it is pretty important to get the brand name correct and things like that. If you're the right read, I don't think there's going to be a casting director or a client that's like, man, that one was perfect. Too bad about that client name. Next.

Definitely a small error. I just noticed it. Yeah, totally. Yeah.

It is important, but it's not. It is,

But it's not, yeah, not a deal breaker, essentially.

Yeah, it's just an ick.

Right.

Okay. Yeah, I mean, I definitely found that she sounded directable. Other than that, yeah, just the talent is hiding a little bit somewhere under there. Just release it. Yeah,

Release all your

Skills. Totally. But okay.

Well, I think it's more of a matter of, that day was recorded, that was audition number six of eight maybe to, I guarantee you if I grab that VO and said, Hey, if that VO gets a callback, it'll be a higher performance because it's definitely there.

So that's interesting because from a brand perspective, I believe I posted this job later in the day, and I can now, I'm going to do a little ab testing behind the scenes of posting early in the morning, what type of auditions I get. Then the versus midday versus posting a job later in the day.

I have not done, with the exception of an agent reaching out, going, Hey, you need this back in an hour. When it comes to a day of just heavy auditioning, I'm done by 11, 11 to one because I also do jingles and music and dumb stuff like that. So those take longer. But yeah, I'm done auditioning. If I have a slow day, it's just an audition day. I'm done by 11. Those are the days.

Well, you need to enjoy that Texas heat.

I was going to say, it must be nice getting

Up all the way up here to seven or whatever y'all Celsius.

I think we're in the minuses still. Oh gosh.

Okay. Let's move on to audition number three.

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Okay, audition number three. Again, this sounds very directable. He's clearly capable technically, but do I want him to read to my child? Probably not with that voice.

No. I felt like I was waiting for him to take me on safari because we were in National Geographic and I was learning about monkeys hibernating and doing something and

Yeah, I don't think it was the direction that maybe we were going in, but Jordan,

What do you think? You're here.

Very interesting.

Was it the National Geographic comment that threw you off?

Yeah, the children are reading the tablets.

It felt like the children were part of the group and they were in the safari, and I was witnessing them read.

Yeah, the children are in grave danger. Alright,

That that's a four syllable word.

Yeah. Okay. Alright. So let me tell you my thoughts on this person. I know nothing about has a, I am 70% confident, has a huge engineering and broadcaster background. I know nothing about 'em, but this person is a broadcaster. And I'm guessing from back in the day, I would be very surprised if this person just popped up in the last five to 10 years. How does this work? What I turn the mic on. Let's try it. What audio processor? What is that? Let's give this a shot. Now this person's got a massive background and I'm guessing it goes back decades if I had to guess. And the reason I say that is because this particular read is so, so saturated. It is. So the sound effects, I haven't heard compression like that since Van Halen released a new album on the local rock station. What's going on guys? New rock station coming to now the new Van Halen. Wow. And the compression was likeQ. Just what you

Need to hear today.

The EQ was through the roof. I mean, it knocked me out of my chair. Now, in my experience, it didn't. It didn't. Well, if I was sitting in a chair, it would knock me out. The levels were maxed, the levels were maxed, which means this audition was not sent intended for an audio engineer. Audio engineers would scream if they heard the signal boosted this high, this much processing a music bed. I mean, come on. I don't know. Yeah. So it knocked me off my chair. Now, yes, in my experience, most engineers, they hate that stuff. They hate it. That's good tip. Some I know they won't work. Some audio producers won't work with something that's saturated in a music bed and all that other stuff. So now that said, looking at the dollar amount, I don't remember what it is. I don't think this is a national spot.

I don't think it's two or 3000 or whatever. A lot of smaller gigs, they appreciate that. So there is some good to it. And I'm not saying don't ever, ever, ever do it. I actually have done stuff like this before, never to this magnitude, but I've added sound effects and stuff. It really just depends on who's going to be listening. Now that said, this guy I, oh, okay. Now all that being said, all that processing and everything that I just heard, he said he was going to do it upfront. So because of that, I'm like, okay, go on. And then he did deliver the raw take afterwards. So right then I stopped and I turned back around and I came back into the room. You know what I mean? Because then it was all stripped down for the, still a little bit processed, but comparatively that I could finally hear the only thing I wanted to hear.

The casting director can finally hear the only thing I want to hear, and that's his performance. The engineer will add all that. I'll add in the special effects. I'll add in. Don't worry about that. So most of the time, especially higher dollar stuff, I wouldn't dare do something like that. They want to hear your performance. They're going down the list of 60 to a hundred or however many audition on this to find out who can deliver the performance. I'll pretty it up. You just give me the best performance. So that right there, I was like, whoa. But then he said he was going to do it, so I got to credit him that he said he was going to do it, and then he brought up the second one afterwards, and then I heard the performance afterwards and I was fine with it.

I really like his voice. I just don't think it's appropriate for this product.

Well, I have to address that because you said that a second ago, but if we go up to the specs and the direction here and we read closely, where is it? Here it is under job description. The online ad script is crafted to promote the Kiddo Reeds reading app, aiming to appeal to parents, guardians, and educators, not the children. So we're not targeting the kids, we're targeting the adults. So he sounds like a grandfather or somebody that adults would look into the room and see him reading and be like, yeah, I want that guy reading to my kid. So it's a flavor thing. Do we want the kid sound or do we want the nurturing parent? And he did sound like grandpa's opening the book and reading it. So because of that, when I stripped all that other stuff out, caught my breath and heard the second take the raw take, I was like, yeah, no. Okay, that's fine.

Okay, great feedback. Are we ready to go to the next audition? We're

Ready. That was a lot to end. That was taken. Did you

Hear great information? But it

Was great. Did you hear everything on that audition? It was like a lot to cover there.

Yeah, there was a lot to cover. I mean, I do like that you added in that even though he did the two takes, the raw cut was a second. And he did say he was going to have that.

What I meant to say is he did one take. He didn't do two takes.

Well, that's very true. Yes.

Alright. But he provided the raw take,

But he provided the raw take. Yeah. Yeah. Which is interesting. I don't know if we've ever really, I don't think we've ever really heard that, have we? That's

Not common. A few times. It's not common. It's rare. Okay.

Yeah. Alright, we're going to get into our last audition just to wrap things up and let's see what this one is about. Let's get into it. Chloe

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I felt that the first read was too much. It was over the top, but not in a good way. I didn't connect to her emotionally. The second take as the senior brand manager, I was frustrated because in the job audition, it does say catering to the parents, not to the children. And she read it as a child and it wouldn't hit, I'm sure as a parent.

Yeah. The second take was interesting to me. I wonder why she did that as a second take. I don't know if it's, maybe she just didn't really look at the direction, or maybe she just wanted to give it a shot. I don't know. But it was interesting to me. But Jordan, what are your thoughts

These days? I tend to err more on the side of, I'd rather lose it by blowing it than I would by blending in. Because the people making these decisions, just most of the time we're not gunning for the job in our first round, we're gunning for a second chance. We're gunning for a callback. And so in my opinion, round one is like just throw 'em something they could grab. Just throw 'em something they could. Alright, well I didn't love it, but let's hang on to that one. Get rid of this one. Get rid of this one. This one. I heard it. Heard it, heard it. Oh, but I dunno what that was. Keep them in there. So I like that. So the first thing I heard in this particular one was I can hear her smiling. Absolutely. I'd be like, do it again, but frown and see what it sounds like. It'd be a different, she genuinely, before y'all probably know what a lead-in is. That's just kind of when you begin a script before a script and lead-ins aren't always words lead-ins can be. They can be like, oh. Or they can be like, it could be anything. I guarantee you a fraction before the second she started reading, she might've been like this, and then she did just a smile as her lead in. She probably went okay.

And then went into it. I can hear it. I can hear the smile. And honestly, I like that. For this read, I kind of agree with you a little bit that it wasn't my favorite. I keep using the word flavor, but it's so applicable to this industry. It's probably not the main perfect flavor for this, but I did like that she was genuinely excited about the copy. Did that translate well at the end? For some it didn't. I was okay with it enough to pull her in for a callback. You know what I mean? So for round one, I thought this was great. And then she took a risk on take two. Like you said, it's targeting parents and teachers and guardians. And so doing a kid voice is a bit of a risk because she's trying to win over the kids or she trying to win over kids or the parents and teachers.

But now that being said, she led with the standard read. She didn't lead with the risky one. So I applaud her for stretching it, especially knowing that the casting director, the casting directors or the decision makers hate back-to-back. Similar reads. That is probably the number one most hated thing in auditioning. Well, I'd say probably bad performances then. Identical first and second takes. But if, like I said, I'd be hypocrite if I didn't say I err on the side of blowing the audition with too much then coming into a little bit. So I liked it. She was smiling, she was enthusiastic. Was it the right flavor? I don't know. It's good enough for a second round in my opinion. And then she has the guts to come in with that crazy second one, but she put it second. Why the heck not sure? Keep her in. Whatever. Good job.

At least it was different. I will give her a lot of credit. At least it was different. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Any final thoughts, Jordan, before we pick a winner? I mean, before you pick the winner,

Guys. No, I think we beat these poor people up bad enough. And

There was a lot of good talent feedback from you. There was

A lot. It's good feedback. I do want to say a lot. While the downside is I heard a lot of talent delivering 40 to 60% of what? I believe that some of them, not all of them, but some of 'em are capable of. And then there was a positive in there. I forgot too. Oh, I remember. There was a lot of, it was same thing really. There's a lot of Michelangelos just needing a little more chiseling away on that marble there. So a lot of

Flavor. Yeah. So to spice it up a bit. Yeah,

Just need different spices. That's before he's patenting it. Before we move on to you picking a winner, would you like to read the script? How you Wish? Yes.

Heard

It already did that, but All right.

No, we want the full thing. I

Want the full thing. Alright,

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Yeah, it was so good. I felt like I was there with you.

Come introduce yourself buddy. Hold on. This is my neighbor. Y'all come in here, guys. This is who I was talking to and this is where we are.

Oh gosh. It's so good. And

Just side note, side note. If I wanted to do a different, take two. And a lot of times actors are like, oh, what should I do different? Change. Who you're talking to is a good one. Let's make it weird, just a quick one. Do we have time to make it weird? Totally.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's get weird.

Who do you want to talk to? Let see. I dunno. Welcome to kiddos Stories.

Do you want me to make up a scenario for you? I'm

Really good at this. No, hold on, hold on. I wont. I want this to be a learning experience, so let's just change who I'm talking to and what my objective is with this script. Same exact copy. But now I'm talking to my neighbor who I've been having a lot of trouble with them because their dog keeps pooping in my yard and I'm done. I'm done being nice. I'm not going to say I hate this person because I don't believe in that, but I'm very frustrated. You know what I mean? And my kid and I, we hang on the front yard all the time and we read and he goes, Hey neighbor. And I'm like, yeah. He's like, Hey, hold on, Cujo, get over here. Sorry about my dog's poop there. Yeah, no, just add it to the pile. And he is like, how do you get your kid to read?

And I'm like, oh yeah, hold on. Go inside, buddy. Okay, close the door. No, I don't want you to see Daddy like this. Okay. How do I get him to read? Well, I spend some time with them for one. Alright. And you know what? Welcome to Kiddo Reeds, where stories aren't just told they're lived. Alright, why don't you dive into Vibrant Tales, meet unforgettable characters and let young imaginations soar of a vast world of stories is waiting. All right, come join us at Kiddos Reed, but don't step on my property until you clean this up. This guy, whatever. It's the exact same copy, but I'm talking to somebody with a different motivation. I don't know if that illustrated it perfect, but I made it up on the fly. It was great. That's a different take too. I would, it is

A different take too.

Yeah. I did that for illustrative purposes. Obviously you're going to want to change your talking to Fit. I just wanted to see what looked like if it didn't fit. It was

A great example though.

Feel free to cut that. But it was an fun excitement. Always.

Dang in.

Dang it. I like that more than the first read. Watch me,

Jeff liked it more than the first read.

Watch me get a callback. Oh yeah. Join us at Kiddo Res. Whatever. I'm out of here.

Becomes an angry read. Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you so much for the two demos. Honored to hear those. Yes. Really, they're fabulous. Yes, of course. Come on now. Okay. Jordan, who are you picking? Who are you choosing to book your job? My

Who's the winner? Jeff

Is going to add

A drum roll can play. Okay. Before I play it out of the four, who do y'all think it was? Do you think it was 1, 2, 3, or four?

I have a feeling that you, I dunno. I feel like two or four. I have a feeling you liked four.

I think you liked three because once everything was stripped down. Okay. Or not based on your reaction. I didn't say anything. I can tell by your reaction.

Three. I

Didn't say anything. Three

Because I have a feeling he picked four. Really? I, but I feel like

After everything was ripped back from three, it was a good voice. And the grandpa reading to the children.

You know what's so great? The fact that he's going to tell us?

Yes, yes. We can stop discussing it and

You can just, do you want me to tell you I'm going to play it?

No, you can play it. Yeah, just play it.

Okay. I chose, and by the way, I don't want to say by a landslide, but by a decent gap because I felt this person brought the best performance.

Here's two auditions. The first is produced. The second audition is dry voice only. Welcome to Kiddo Reads, where stories aren't just told they're lived. Dive into vibrant tales, meet unforgettable characters, and let young imaginations soar. A vast world of stories is waiting. Join us at kiddo Res. Here's the Dry Voice audition. Welcome to Kiddo Reads, where stories aren't just told, they're lived. Dive into vibrant tales. Meet unforgettable characters and let young imaginations soar. A vast world of stories is waiting. Join us at kiddo Res.

I will join you. He whisked me away and I will also say, a lot of times out of a hundred auditions, 30 of them could be picked, but you never know what's going to resonate with the person making the decision. And that dude stripped down. Sounds like my old pops man. I like that guy.

Tell me a

Story. Great choice. That's a

Great choice. Amazing choice. Amazing choice.

He's really good. I scared you though. I You didn't think I was going away.

Did you have a good poker face? I thought you were like, Tara, what are you doing? Know

Jordan better than this?

Yeah, I know, but it was, I mean, it's like, I've done this before. I, it's like I own brand.

There was a lot of really good talent today. A lot of really good talent. I thought y'all were going to throw me one. I was going to be mad that they auditioned and tried to get into our industry that it was so bad. But no, there was some really good talent here

And great feedback on. Just don't be scared to show each audition your full potential. Don't hold anything back. Yeah,

Totally.

It might be number five of the day for you, but it's number one of the day for the person that needs the book. The right person.

Yep, totally. Mic

Drop on that cookie. Mic

Drop. Write that down.

That was a Hallmark card I

Thought you were going to say, but number one in my heart, that's literally what I

Thought. Oh, that would, hallmark would definitely be calling you.

Okay. Well, congratulations to the talent for booking this job. Thank you all so much for tuning into Mission Audition. We hope this episode has really helped you learn valuable voiceover tips from Jordan. Jordan, how can Talon get in touch with you?

Google Jordan Hunter Jones, or go to Jordan Hunter jones.com. Really, the key is just Jordan Hunter Jones or go to theaters this weekend.

Hey,

Do both. That's amazing. Amazing voice actors. If you're looking to start taking your voiceover career more seriously this year, we offer a wide range of scripts for you to practice, including today's script [email protected] slash blog. If you need more resources from Jordan, feel free to connect with him and reach out. He's amazing.

He is. He. Thank you so much. Yes, he is. Thank you so much, Jordan, for being a part of this part of our series and a part of our episode today. It was a really fun episode.

Thank you guys for letting me be a part of it. I really appreciate it.

You're welcome. All right. See you in the next episode. And

Happy auditioning. Woo. We synced on that. So good.

Oh my God. Let's try it again. You do a third. You do a seventh and I'll do a fifth and it'll be a harmony. It'll be great.

Wait, why don't you say it with

Us, Jordan. Oh my gosh, yes. You say it with us. Really,

We're going to do

The, it'll be good. We haven't done this before. You're going to be the first one to say it with us.

So Vanessa will say, see you in the next episode. And then we say, happy audition. It's never synced before. Ready.

See you in the next

Episode. And happy auditioning.