Completed my latest audio book yesterday 'Nelson Mandela: The Heart of the Rainbow Nation' by Hilary Brown. It's another short book at 2 hours but it was fun to do and is an informative read and good if you want a brief, quick outline of Mandela's life and the people around him. I tried for the first time impersonating the figures in the narrative Mandela himself, Desmond Tutu (two words!) the Queen (which was difficult as I'm an anti-royal but felt I had to do the job I'm being paid for) even Muhammad Ali which wasn't great and David Cameron (again can't stand him!) who I couldn't get at all. The idea though is just to give an indication of the voice and remind the listener who is speaking. I rather liked my Obama and Mandela and it was as I say enjoyable and I think gives the audio more texture.
Dracula's Guest the audio should be out in the next couple of days and that I'm very pleased with the sound effects and general creepy feel I think I've given it I think serves the story really well. I hope it gets some listeners because it had a long an troubled history of production. When I first started out doing audio books I began with this as an experiment to get used to reading, editing the equipment etc. and learnt a lot but after several months and for various complex reasons I had to abandon my baby that I'd spent a lot of time on. Coming back to it a year and a half later I rerecorded it all in a day! Put the music and sound effects on in another day and a half and boom it was done! How things change! A bit of experience and you get so much faster. Mind you I knew the story, characters and style like the back of my hand as I'd had a lot of rehearsal the previous year!
Onwards and upwards with a crime novel 'Crimson Shore' by Gill E Hamer which I'm really looking forward to but with take maybe four months as it's longer and more complex but very exciting to be working on.
Dracula's Guest the audio should be out in the next couple of days and that I'm very pleased with the sound effects and general creepy feel I think I've given it I think serves the story really well. I hope it gets some listeners because it had a long an troubled history of production. When I first started out doing audio books I began with this as an experiment to get used to reading, editing the equipment etc. and learnt a lot but after several months and for various complex reasons I had to abandon my baby that I'd spent a lot of time on. Coming back to it a year and a half later I rerecorded it all in a day! Put the music and sound effects on in another day and a half and boom it was done! How things change! A bit of experience and you get so much faster. Mind you I knew the story, characters and style like the back of my hand as I'd had a lot of rehearsal the previous year!
Onwards and upwards with a crime novel 'Crimson Shore' by Gill E Hamer which I'm really looking forward to but with take maybe four months as it's longer and more complex but very exciting to be working on.
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