For many people, Herbert George Wells remains the ‘father of science fiction’ par excellence. For others, he was a visionary educator and social commentator, straddling late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today, more than 70 years after his death, his reputation has never been higher, inspiring a literary prize and a literary festival in Folkestone, the Kentish Town where Wells lived and worked for many years. A prolific writer, H G Wells is perhaps best remembered for his science fiction novels and short stories. His output embraces history, science fiction, horror, satire, and fantasy…
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Recording an Audiobook
When the prep is done it’s time to start recording. Most pro studios estimate that it takes two hours of recording to produce an hour of finished audio, and expect a narrator to complete around three to three and a half hours of finished audio per working day. This takes discipline, concentration and stamina. Of course the schedule can be more flexible when a narrator is recording in their own studio – but the concentration and need for consistency still applies!
An Audiobook Narrator Prepares…
Every narrator finds their own way to deal with the challenges of recording an audiobook, but I suspect if you were to ask twenty narrators twenty questions about how they prepare, you’d probably get twenty different answers! But I think that there are some universal truths that 99% of narrators will observe…
The Challenge of Audiobook Narration
Of course the audiobook narrator is telling a story – but that is really only the beginning. Each person in the book must live vividly in the listener’s imagination as a believable and unique person with a separate and clearly identifiable ‘voice’ that not only fits their character as described by others, but also allows the listener to understand each character’s motivation, feelings and emotions and their role within the story.