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Do you prefer a male audiobook narrator?
https://kmatthes.edublogs.org/files/2020/12/Adam-Gold_excerpt.mp3
Do you prefer a female audiobook narrator?
https://kmatthes.edublogs.org/files/2020/12/Christine-Williams_excerpt.mp3
Whitney Johnson:
“I’m a female author, so why did I want a man to narrate my audiobook?”
The Dilemma
“I have been very public in my advocacy for women and girls. But somet -
Blog postYou can also listen to the interview on the s2m podcasts.
Dr. Emma Rodero agreed to do an interview about audiobooks for a feature article assignment for my Multimedia Writing/Reporting class at Palomar College. The feature article was posted on the blog as “We’re All Ears for Full-Cast Audiobooks.” She has graciously agreed to allow me to post her full interview from April 22, 2019.
Kathy: Radio drama scripts use a specific format that cues the listener about the enviro -
Blog postYou can also listen to this interview on the s2m podcast.
William Dufris agreed to do an interview about audiobooks for a feature article assignment for my Multimedia Writing/Reporting class at Palomar College. The feature article was posted on the blog as “We’re All Ears for Full-Cast Audiobooks.” He has graciously agreed to allow me to post his full interview from April 24, 2019 here.
Kathy: In an article on the AudioFile website, it says: “William embodies a passion f -
Blog postMichele Cobb, Executive Director of the Audiobook Publishers Association, agreed to do an interview about audiobooks for a feature article assignment for my Multimedia Writing/Reporting class at Palomar College. The feature article was posted on the s2m blog as “We’re All Ears for Full-Cast Audiobooks.” She has graciously agreed to allow me to post her full interview from April 16, 2019 here. Enjoy!
Kathy: In 2016, Shannon Maughan published the article, “Aud -
Blog postYou’ve seen them. They’re everywhere . . . people with ear buds. You see them on the street, on the subway, on the bus, at the gym, at the park, at the beach, and in the library. They appear to be in a trance, listening so intently that they are oblivious to the world around them. They seem captivated, and somewhat mad, as various expressions flit across their faces. Is it the invasion of the body snatchers? No! They are listening to full-cast audiobo
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Blog postThis is also available in an s2m podcast with additional information and examples.
“Jack Donovan Foley was born in Yorkville, New York, on April 12, 1891. He was a grandson of Irish immigrants and grew up in the Seagate section of Coney Island,” according to Martin Chalakoski. Little did he know that he would invent a method of sound effects creation that is still used today.
According to Media Heritage: “The original ‘Foley Artist’ was none other than Jack Foley, himself -
Blog postBy now, it should be clear that stories2music audio stories would not be what they are without the film music. It is an integral part of the storytelling. Part of this has to do with the type of music being used. The short, orchestral film music somehow works perfectly with the stories. But where did the music come from? The journey of discovery was amazing.
When I was teaching myself to do sound editing with Audacity, I chose to narrate one of my short s -
Blog postSince 2011, when I created my first stories2music story, I have watched my production process evolve. When I first started out, I was teaching myself how to use the sound editing software, Audacity, so there was a lot of trial and error and experimentation. The one constant, however, was the uncanny “coincidence” of how the film music clips consistently matched the stories perfectly as if they were written for the stories. The music reflected the emotions or the actions of t
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Blog postHow many of you recognize this radio broadcast?
On Halloween in 1938, radio listeners experienced the scare of their lives when they heard that Martians had landed on Earth. The broadcast of Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds supposedly caused a mass panic because it was presented as a news broadcast, so listeners believed it was true. This is the power of a well-done radio drama.
According to TheaterCrafts.com, a “radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, r -
Blog postIn an audio story, does the inclusion of orchestra film music and sound effects enhance the vividness of the images created in the participants’ imaginations?
To answer that question, I created a sound experiment and a survey to test the above research question. One of my stories2music stories—Aurora’s Secret—has music and sound effects, so I used that story for the test.
I had my participants to listen to three versions of the story:
The versio
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