male or female aged 35-55 to portray Dr. Vivaldi, a "fringe" scientist.
must have good vocabulary (so naturally, I'm going with Watchers).
Required for the role:
1. Your own audio and video recording device.
2. The ability to send me the footage you've completed fairly quickly, over the internet if possible.
What you will do:
There are two documentary style sequences, in Which Dr. Vivaldi explains:
1. the origins and evolution of the vampire as a "super primate."
2. the possibility of an ancient "faded" race of Vampire hunters from the moon."
In both sequences what we need is:
you, on camera dressed professionally, perhaps sitting in an armchair or somewhere nice, as though you were being interviewed.
1. You will recite the first paragraph, by memory, or each script.
2. you will recite, by memory, a few seconds from the script at a time.
You will read both scripts in their entirety into an audio device. You may pause and re-start as often as you like to correct mistakes, or put on a better performance (we will edit the audio). This will be used with video overlays illustrating the concepts in the script.
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Here is what you will be reading, if we choose you:
first monologue:
The vampire has been with us from a time when that first proto primate split off from the rodents and bats. They are and have been part of the primate family tree since it’s inception.
From lemurs to monkeys, lesser and greater apes, we can see now that the vampire has always been a part of what made homo sapiens evolve to what we are now.
But what is a primate?
Beyond the taxonomical classification, we can see that the powers of the mind come into fruition with the evolution of the primate. Just as man has a little of the supernatural and magical within his nature, so the vampire evolved-- albeit stronger, defying even death itself.
According to what we know now, this creature has always been on the top of the food chain. It infiltrated and destroyed hominid populations from time immemorial, causing at least as much devastation among hominids since the time of the infamous toba event around 80,000 B.C.
Among its victims were our smarter, stronger cousins homo neandert(h)al who perished in a final, great war against them.
This last conflict ended in the middle east some 30,000 years ago and resulted in a substantial weakening of the creature’s dominance,
At that time, Vampires were known as Ekkimu or Ghouls. To understand the vanishing of the vampire, we must first understand its life cycle.
The vampire reproduces not by sex, but by a poorly understood high energy process involving blood transference. the reaction results in a complete and instantaneous genetic transformation.
the archetypal vampire according to modern folklore is usually thin and pale. In days gone by a more accurate depiction showed the vampire dark and bloated with the blood of his victims.
Feeding must be done in copious quantities to sustain the vampire’s high energy state.
In the high energy state, the vampire can change its appearance, influence minds, and even walk among us.
It can be killed, like every living thing, but is abnormally resistant to physical damage and sometimes regenerates from nearly complete death.
When the vampire grows old or its energy state diminishes, it begins to mutate to its original form.
It buries itself in the ground and goes into a state of morbid hibernation, to all appearances both dead and rotting.
It renews itself this way like a water bear or a resurrection plant.
This dormant state is where the majority of vampires have existed throughout human history.
They can only be revived with spiritual devotion and blood letting. This is why vampire cults and lone misfits have an affinity to them.
These miscreants learn telepathically, through dreams, and other poorly understood, non conventional means, where the creature is buried.
The cultist learns what he or she must do to attain a perverse inborn goal to become one of them.
This theory, first postulated by my colleague Dr. Maria Chambers, is known as the Renfield syndrome.
Every so often a cult or lone affected individual will continue to obsess with vampirism until they take action. When the vampire’s faint spirit informs them of its location, they revive the body with blood and perpetuate the species.
These are rare and short lived episodes, scarce, if not unheard of, in modern times. It is postulated that victims of Renfield syndrome are actually failed genetic transfers. They carry and pass on genetically the inborn desire to complete their transformation.
script 2: (please note, this one is my first draft and will need to be edited)
Human views on cosmology are nothing, if not ever-changing.
As our minds become aware of new perspectives, deeper dimentions and stranger forces and powers, so our view of the universe must be mutable to understand more.
In the early twentieth century the theory of planet formation was that the sun periodically ejected matter to form planets.
Later this theory was dropped in favor of the supernova and the slowly coalescing disk of heavy ejecta which gradually formed the planets.
In recent times, this view has changed. Dark matter, bose einstien condensate matter, and other cosmological mysteries have come into the equation. Beginning with observations made by the Japanese, we have seen rogue planets of all kinds-- too many to be accounted for by present theories, are in fact common in interstellar space.
The comets, once thought to orbit the solar sytem in a body called the oort cloud are now known to occupy the interstellar media in a differenct quantum state than other objects. They do not occupy space or time. They attain the speed of non-locality. Subetheral traces of their physical trajectories sends them into star sysytems where they seed barren planets with water and organics. This, perhaps includes even small organisms such as spores and viruses and water bears.
Among the planets that came to our solar system in more recent times was a body called Cyani, later called Selene. Now called the moon.
As the evidence now favors, the captured planet theory of the moon's formation, instead of the collision model, we get a clearer idea as to what the moon once might have been.
Our moon is clearly a rogue planet that established itself in our orbit. Much of its life was becoming extinct long before the first epoch of life in our earth. It pained the People of Cyani that our race considers Cyani our moon.
Our moon, as we now call it, was inhabited, and may be inhabited still by the advanced race that engineered their orbital capture. Their air and water were slowly vanishing. Their flora and fauna had dwindled to a fraction of what it once was. The planet they had bound themselves to was a hostile world full of dangerous life forms in a thick, sweltering, poisonous atmosphere.
The Cyani tried to make the best of things, but their evolutionary future was to shift further from the physical existence and closer to a future of pure spirit.
It would take too much time truely complete this evolution, surely at least fifteen billion years. As air and water left their world, only the most powerful and evolved Cyani survived.
But long before man arived they had become a faded people, living at such a low energy vibration that no creature of the earth could see them, nor any instrument measure any trace of them.
The Cyani, once a race of hunters, now watched our world with special care.
They placed the moon in an orbit that would cause perfect total and anular eclipses, to strengthen our minds and increase our powers. These natural hunters used their limited numbers to help us fight the dark primate that would become the vampire. They called them howlers, for they howled at the moon. In time we identified this behavior with the Loup-garous and skinwalkers. we would later call them werewolves.
But it was the Cyani who felt the blame for this evolutionary offshoot-- it was their ancient radiation that molded the Vampire from a small furry proto primate.
For this, the elders of hermetic knowledge called Cyani by new names and made it their goddest of the hunt.
Too weak and few in numbers to be much help, nevertheless the Cyani have come among us. They come to help, every so often, when they know the Vampires could well turn the tables on our race again.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with water bears as a possible interplanetary life form, common throughout the universe.
