Live Video Inc: IMMEDIATE CASTING - SEASON 1 CODE NAME: The Baconing

IMMEDIATE CASTING - SEASON 1

CODE NAME: The Baconing
TINKER
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- Character BREAKDOWN List -

Season One – CODE NAME: The Baconing – List Updated 06/29/13

This is a pilot for a new Web series that we hope will evolve into a television series. Production starts September 20th. The audition is this Saturday, July 6th from 10AM-4PM. Anyone interested in auditioning should e-mail their head shot and resume to: info@livevideoinc.com, subject line: “RUSH - TINKER CASTING”. If selected, you will be given a call time. The character breakdown list is all that is available for the initial casting. There will be no sides in advance because the material is proprietary and a cold read will be required in the audition. The Hollywood address for auditions will only be provided to Actors selected for the auditions.

THE CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

THE PROTAGONISTS Character

LADY CUSHING

Female • Late Thirties/Early Forties • Caucasianwith Red Hair, average height& weight (1) Wealthy, eccentric know-it-all with a fierytemper consistent with having been born a redhead.

(2) Lady Cushing is the youngestchild and only girl, born to a British father and an American Mother. Now living in Hong Kong and thelast of her immediatefamily, Lady Cushing pursuesher father’s passionfor adventure and inventions, as her cousin, the equally fierce and notoriously persistent Lady Morgan pursues her for a pieceof the action.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: Think actressALEX KINGSTON who played River Song on the BBC TV Series, DR. WHO

ALEXANDRA VICTORIABRIAN PELHAM

Female • TwentyFour • Caucasian with Red Hair, tall (5’8”-6’0”), with an athletic build

(1) Likes to drink and behave as though she is “one of theboys.”

(2) Youthful ward to Lady Cushing and heiress to her vast fortune. Orphanedas an infant, the young Alexandra Pelham has beengroomed from birth to be an airship Captain, like her birthfather, under the watchful and influential eye of Lady Cushing.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: Think actressKAREN GILLAN who played Amy Pond on the BBC TV Series, DR. WHO

AMARYLLIS

Female • Nineteen• Caucasian with any colorhair, average height& weight, preferably busty.

(1) Wealthy debutante.

(2) Best friend of Kimi Tinker.Always trying to improve Kimi’s social standing. Consistently engaging in the pursuit of makingKimi more feminine.

MEDFORD

Male • Late Fifties/Early Sixties• Black, tall (over 6’), witha sturdy build.

(1) Articulate and educated. Is very reasonable but does not take anyone’scrap.

(2) The loyal family retainer(valet with the “t” pronounced, more like a butler and not at all like someonewho parks cars) of theCushing family. Has watched out forand watched over Lady Cushing sinceshe was a little girl. Has had quitea career putting out firesand mending fences.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: Think actorMICHAEL DORN who played

Worf on the Paramount TV Series, STAR TREK:THE NEXT GENERATION

THE STRANGER

Male • Thirties• Caucasian, with any colorhair, average height& weight, preferably .

(1) Intelligent and thorough. Possibly suffering from obsessive/compulsive disorder.

(2) This mysterious and oddly dressedman, possibly a time traveller from the futureor just a Looney, has a working knowledge of the affairsof several prominent peoplewho may wish to do harm to theTinkers. His adviseis

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: Think actorALAN TUDYK who played

Wash, pilot of Serenity on the Fox TV Series, FIREFLY

BELLA VOLANTE

Female • Late Thirties/Early Forties• Caucasian, with dark hair, preferably curvy(not fat).

(1) Nosy and opinionated,likes money. Has an Italian-type temper.

(2) Proprietor and host of the popular neighborhood watering hole, Pour Devil’s Tavern. VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

THE QUARTERMASTER

Male • Fifties• Caucasian, with Caucasian, gray or salt and pepper hair, preferably tall.

(1) Bespectacled and a genius. Not a big fan of field agents. Thinks there are two kinds of people in this world:those who are scientists and those who are not. Feels deeply that scientists should run everything.

(2) Scientist responsible for the weaponsdevelopment of the covertBritish agency, LIS.

MISS SOMETHINGOROTHER

Female • Twenties • Caucasian with any colorhair, average height& weight, must be busty. (1) Physically beautiful, quiet and responsible. Caretaker-type personality with a swimsuit model-type physique.

(2) Secretary to Jack Cheese, spymaster at covert Britishspy agency: Lionheart

Intelligence Service (LIS). Often distracts Jack inadvertently.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

GIANCARLO

Male • Late Twenties • Any ethnicity with any colorhair, must be fit with great skin.

(1) Tall, lean (not scrawny), educatedand sophisticated. A genuine and humble man, stutters around women to whom he is attracted.

(2) Works at the Ministry of Waterand Power as an accountant in the officeof the Minister, Lord Blackwelder. He first sees Kimi Tinkerat the Air and SeaBall and it’s love at first sight.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

GINGER BACON

Male • Late Thirties • Irish or Scottish, must have naturalred hair.

(1) Gruff, but polite.

(2) Chief Engineer of The Dragonfly Airship and longest standingemployee of the Cushing family after Medford. An ex-military engineer, he got intothe then new fieldof aviation after leaving the service. Knows the Dragonfly inside and out. Lives to fly,loves to gamble.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

ANTON BREIT

Male • Late Twenties/Early Thirties• German, shortwith dark hair

(1) Quiet and competent.

(2) Relatively new to the ranks of the Cushing familyemployees. Breit (pronounced Bright) started out as a navigator on a fishing boat and, after seeing an airshow while traveling in France, soon transitioned to a career in the air.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

VERDALET MEREWOOD

Female • Twenty • Caucasian with any colorhair, average height& weight, preferably busty. (1) Wealthy and elite, legendary in her beauty and content with the role she is about to play. (2) A passenger on the Dragonfly. The subject/victim of an arranged marriage engineered to stop a war.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE:Think actress MORENA BACCARIN who played Inara Serra, a companion rentinga shuttle on the spaceship, Serenity on the Fox TV Series, FIREFLY

SHERIFF CLAYTONWHITLOCK

Male • Mid-LateForties • Caucasian,with dark hair and a beard. Tall and tan.

(1) A man’s man and a realcowboy, to boot!

(2) Has a genuine interest in law and order and in justice but no regard for those who abuse their power in the Northwest American Territory.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: Think actorADAM BALDWIN who played a man called Jayne,on the space ship,Serenity on the Fox TV Series, FIREFLY

THE ANTAGONISTS Character

MADAME JI LI

Female • Late Twenties/Early Thirties • Chinese with dark hair, average height & weight, must beattractive.

(1) Wealthy, educated, descended from royalty and short-tempered. She inherited controlof the enormous Gas utility from her late husband, a Caucasian man who acquired her when shewas only 16, in an arranged marriage. Although ruthlessin business, MadameLi’s late husband was kind to herand she grew to lovehim. She believeshis demise was orchestrated by Lord Blackwelder.

(2) Controls the 2nd largest utility in the greatNorthwest American Territory: The Gas

Works. Often at odds with her biggest rival,Lord Blackwelder, she is equallyas greedy and equally as ambitious and will stop at nothing (including the use of herfeminine wiles) to achieve her goals.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

KLAUS HERZHAFT

Male • Forties• German (Bavarian), short with dark hair and eyes.

(1) Foolish and greedy, an above averageengineer, but sloppy when under duress.Short in stature but longin ambition.

(2) Makes the mistake of tryingto dupe Lady Cushing and theeven bigger mistakeof neglecting his wife,Eldine. His only major technological achievement will have a hand in his ultimate demise.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

THEIR HENCHMAN Character

HESPERIA

Female • Nineteen • Any ethnicity with any colorhair, average height& weight, must be fit and attractive.

(1) Likes shiny things,greedy and easily distracted. Can’t hold her liquor.

(2) The youthful ward of the wealthy Countess Vandermeer and theprotégé killer of the

Countess’s alter ego, Jawbreaker. Uses sex as a weapon.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: Think of theSteampunk version of the comic book character HARLEY QUINN, a Batman super villain and sidekick to the JOKER.

LORD BUXOMLY

Male • Late Fifties/Early Sixties• Caucasian/British with a sturdy build.

(1) Wealthy, egotistical and always the loudest person in the room.

(2) A pawn answering to Madame Li. He controls the all-female streetgang called, The

Ylang Ylang.Attempts to engage the Tinkers on a phony Giant Robot project. VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

OTHERINTERESTED PARTIES Character

LORD MAYOR CUTHBERT

Male • Late Fifties/Early Sixties• Caucasian, with gray hair and a short, stocky build.

(1) Not as wealthy as a politician of his standingshould be.

(2) Argumentative and demanding. Does not command respectnor does he understand that he can’t have his way just because he is the Lord Mayor.Often an unwitting pawn of the utilities (Ministry of Water& Power and the Gasworks).

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

GUILD GIRL LEADER: MOTHER

Female • Forties • Can be any ethnicity with any color hair and can be any height with appropriate weight. Must be attractive.

(1) A wealthy, lusty, self-made woman with a certain zest for living.

(2) A true “rags to riches” story,‘Mother,’ as she is affectionately called,started with nothing, not evenan education and has parlayed her drive and ambition into the leadership role of the country’s foremost organized guildof legal prostitutes.

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

THE GUILD GIRLS:

All Female• Twenties-Early Thirties • Can be any ethnicity with any colorhair and can be any height with appropriate weight. Must be fit and attractive.

(1) Some of the girls are quiet, some are flamboyant and others are loud,but have some level of education and lengthy training. Some are good and some are evil.

(2) The various female membersof the San Francisco Guildof Legal Prostitutes are from various backgrounds and havea wide variety of talesthat have lead them to their role in this organization, plyingthe trade of “theworld’s oldest profession.”

VISUAL REFERENCE/IDEAL APPEARANCE: NONE IN PARTICULAR

* - CAST NOTE:The preceding list representsboth Speaking and Featured Characters planned for Seasons 1 & 2.

ForSeries Casting Information, Please Contact:

A panel of the series’ producersand episode directors, as wellas a professional casting director, will evaluatethe July 6th and 7th Casting Sessions. No proprietary materials, like scripts, will be releasedto prospective cast membersprior to their audition. All auditions in the “first round”will be cold reads. All prospective cast are requiredto sign a confidentiality agreementand present proof of identification upon arrival for their audition.

TINKER

FAQ Sheet

Quick Answers to THE 15 MOST Frequently Asked Questions

About TINKER – The Steampunk Series

01. What Exactly is “Tinker?”

‘TINKER’ is a Steampunk-themed, sci-fi/action/adventure/drama Web Series. Itis set in the lateVictorian era and follows an alternatehistory timeline. Think: DR. WHO meets FIREFLY meets BLADERUNNER, in a setting of VictorianFuturism.

02. WHAT IS THE General Storyline of the

Tinker Web Series?

‘TINKER’ is about the numerous, late nineteenth centuryexploits of those

well-to-do inventors, Sho and Kimi Tinker and their wealthybenefactor, Lady Cushing.

03. What does the name, ‘Tinker’ mean, what is it referring to?

‘TINKER’ is the surname of two of the main characters, the father/daughter duo of world-

famous inventors: Sho and Kimi Tinker. They are Tinkers by name andtinkers by trade.

04. WHAT IS The 1st Season Summary of

TINKER?

The wealthy and eccentric adventure-seeker, Lady Cushing, attempts to completethe life’s work of her late fatherand older brothers, with the help of a well-known fatherand

daughter team of inventors called,the Tinkers. By engaging the services ofthis world-famous

duo, Lady Cushing hopes to build an unprecedented device from a set of incomplete plans created by her father 15 years earlier.The ‘contraption,’ as she calls it, is supposed to providesustainable energy and is to be demonstrated at what will surely be a triumphant presentation at the 1899 World Exposition in Paris. If successful, this device will provide cheap and abundantpower to the general publicand likely changethe world, but this innovation threatens the status quo and for that there are repercussions.

05. Want More?

Word of this device has even caught the attentionof renowned inventors and energy pioneers, NicolaTesla, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, as well as cutthroat businessman and financier, J.P. Morgan. The corrupt energy utilities of Western America, most notably the Ministry of Water & Power and the Gasworks, have each dispatchedtheir agents in an effort to thwart the Tinkers and Lady Cushing. Her well-equipped entourage, lead by the courageous Captain Alexandra Victoria Brian Pelham, intervenes but Lord Blackwelder has a plan to maintain his dictatorship over the Americannation’s valuable and extensive power resources. With an energy war on the verge of erupting,an additional obstacle surfaces, provided courtesy of the notorious masked criminal,Jawbreaker, who

runs interference at all parties, by playing both sides in this emerging battlefor power and the wealth that typicallyaccompanies it.

06. What Exactly is “Steampunk?”

‘Steampunk’ can be summed-up in two words: VictorianFuturism. But if you need more, Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction and it is often framed from the perspective of either alternate historyor a future, which emulates the culture, and scientific achievements of the late 19th century. Steampunkcan also be described as the type of subject matter that authors Jules Verne or H.G. Wells wrote about.

07. Why “Steampunk?”

Because it’s the right time. The marketplace for Vampires is dwindling(largely because of contamination by weak storylines and over-saturation); and Zombies, which currently dominatethe world of fiction, have hit the ceiling. Althoughholding firmly at the top for the moment, the genre has nowhere left to go but down. Steampunk is on the upswing, not only as an entertainment genre but also as a culture, an aesthetic anda lifestyle and it will be the nextbig thing. That isn’t to say that EVERYONE will be a fan of Steampunk. Like all genres and sub-genres of entertainment, Steampunk isn’t for everyone… just the right ones.

08. Will Tinker Have any stars?

Presently, STEAMPUNK PARTNERS in association with HARBINGER MEDIA GROUP and CONTAINMENT FIELD have engageda casting directorand are approaching agents for several actors in whom we have interest. Some of these actors have appeared in television shows and movies with a long history and rabid fan following.

09. Does the series Have a ‘Tag’ Line or a

‘Catch Phrase’ associated with it?

‘What If The Future Came Early?’ – or – ‘Tinker by name, tinker by nature.’

10. Who is in The Cast of Tinker Right Now?

At the time of publication of this FAQ Sheet,the primary cast includes: Johnnie Sa iko (co- star of SyFy Channel’s Monster Man) stars as Sho Tinker; JulienneDa vis (Mandy in StanleyKubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut) stars as secretagent Elmira Perkins; andmany others. There are several other characters played by talented,up-and-coming actors who give an authentic look and feel to the unique, alternateuniverse of ‘TINKER.’ At this time,

‘TINKER’ is not completely cast and there are several characters that remain available.

11. Will TINKER ever be on Television?

Don’t think for a minute that we wouldn’t like that! TINKER would make an excellentedition to the SyFy Channel line-up or HBO, Cinemax,Showtime or Starz.Anything is possible; it’s all about whom you know.TINKER is an intellectual property(IP) that is being developedto have many differentiterations, beginning with a Web Series and movingbeyond that if possible. If all goes as planned there will be other branches of the ‘TINKER IPTree.’ For now, it’s the Internet first and that’s where our efforts are concentrated.

12. WHERE ELSE ARE FANS LIKELY TO SEE TINKER?

It is our ultimategoal to have TINKER grow to franchise status, eventually becoming a comic book, TV series, feature length movie, console video game, online videogame, hand-held video game and several major retail ancillaryproducts, from clothingto jewelry and more. However, in entertainment, as inlife, things don’t always go as planned. The first step is to make the best WebSerieswe can with the budget we have raised.

13. What is The Key to success (with our audience)?

Our ability to create and deliver meaningful characters that the audience will actually care about and root for is why this franchise will ultimately take off. From the sexy and provocative Guild Girls to the mysterious agents to the nefarious villains all the way to our personable heroes, the people that populatethe world of TINKER are its driving force.

14. How is TINKER being financed?

CONTAINMENT FIELD STUDIO financed the initialdevelopment period for ‘TINKER,’ under license from the Copyright and Trademark holder,HARBINGER MEDIA GROUP. Together, with STEAMPUNK PARTNERS, investors are being courted and pre-production is in full swing. Additional financing to develop a pilot is being sought throughthe crowd funding Web site, Ki c kst ar t er .c om .

15. How is Tinker being distributed?

STEAMPUNK PARTNERS will distribute the show initiallyon the Web. The episodes will be available on both the TINKER Web site: www.TinkerSteampunkSeries.com as well as on Vimeo.There are other possible resources for distribution that are being negotiated, some of which are connected to corporate sponsors. Regardlessof the differentoutlets that will eventually carry the episodes, the individual, first-run programs will always be free to view

on the Web site. Collections of episodes or seasons will be available on Blu-Ray for

purchase at a later date.

16. How Will Tinker meet its challenges?

There are always challenges to producinga series, no matter how well funded or experienced you are, howeverwe have a strong team with many years of experience, who know their various crafts quite well. Our diverse cast members are not only actively involved in the world of film and science fiction, but in the worlds of Music, all things Geek and of course, all things Steampunk! With nearly 3 years in development we've done our homework, TINKER's track is well laid, we just need funding to get the train rolling!