my house two hours ago i'm almost at our audio recording studio so yeah exciting
i spent one morning at work at bonnie books uk in our audio recording studio this is where we
record some of our audio books whether you like audio books or not for some reason you've clicked
on this video and i'm taking you with me on the day in the life of the morning at the recording
studio the studios itself were a little bit hard to find but then when you go in it's psychotics
and there are so many recording rooms we obviously only needed one of them we had the studio producer
there who was fantastic and was obviously really well experienced and then we had the actor herself
there as well she was also great and fine for us to use any footage online saying thank you to her
she was so good in terms of like really quick to switch characters really professional and it was
so nice to see i have been to one of our recording studios at my last company at bloomsbury was the
first time going to house at bonnie books uk so we're filming the silver chain which is a why a
novel inverse about the relationship between music and mental health by gion chevene it
comes out in june 2022 and self-explanatory we are also selling an audiobook of this
i'm marina i work in the audio department at bonjour brooks uk and today we're at the studio
recording the silver chain the room itself is quite small but it doesn't really need to be any
bigger when you think about it the studio producer is at the screen listening to how the sounds work
listening to see if anything needs to be recorded which happens quite a lot audio books are not read
start to finish and we probably all wish it were that easy sentences are often filmed a couple at a
time before having to re-record you re-record for like many reasons sometimes it's the pronunciation
of things sometimes there's a spike in volume that won't match the rest of the recording and
sometimes it just generally doesn't sound right and that's usually down to the producer to spot
i'm gonna play you back in a second do you want to um would you like to just sit back a touch as well
i've just turned you down sometimes as well when you're dealing with names such as characters or
places and you don't know how they pronounce there are different ways of finding that out so it can
be a discussion with us at the publisher to ask how it should be pronounced sometimes it's a case
of googling another thing audiobook producers do in order to get the pronunciation right
is get someone from say that country to record themselves saying the word and sending it to us
the actor can then replicate that so it's a really interesting process on how many times things have
to be stopped the actor could be mid-sentence you have to be stopped sometimes she'll know herself
as well at the end she'll say oh let me recall that again that didn't sound right you know she's
obviously gotta be happy with it herself it's her voice i told you you could have come with
i told you you could have come with even just for a week sexy of hugs and kisses a
fan of all indian dishes i'm so sorry go back from a galaxy again even though it is kind of
stop start it obviously when it all comes together and it's been edited it does flow
really nicely and it sounds as if it's all been recorded in one session which obviously is the
aim i'm not usually at the studio but these visits are very special i really enjoy coming
in and talking to the narrators chat a bit about the book yeah just seeing processes
uh is brilliant choosing the correct actor is a key part and often comes down to the publishers so
us at bonnie books uk and our audio team obviously the actor needs to suit the tone of the book the
age of the characters being spoken there's so much more that goes into it but essentially the
actors wouldn't have been chosen at random so the reason i went um it was twofold really
number one to get some content for youtube behind the scenes for you guys of what it's like working
in a publishing house obviously audiobooks is a massive part on the digital side so it was really
interesting to go spend another morning there and also for us for social media as well so i work in
marketing and publicity and we obviously market our books for the hardback and the paperbacks but
obviously audiobook is another part of it and part of our responsibility is to market some
of our audio books as a result i was taking some tick tock content mainly to go on a hotkey books
channel so the silver chain by julian chevron is going to be under the hotkey books imprint and so
on our hotkey books tip top we're going to have some behind the scenes of recording the audiobook
so essentially i was there to create some content to use on our social media and give some behind
the scenes of the silver chain not only that but it was really fun as well it obviously
got me away from my laptop for a few hours and it was just a really enjoyable part of the job
why i love audio well what can i say i started listening to audiobooks like about
10 years ago since then i was just trying to get into
audiobook publishing basically i love them because they allow me to read like listen to honors
outside of what i usually read so crime and thrillers i never used to read them but i
loved listening to them a lot of non-fiction and memoirs memoirs were always they were not
my thing but then in audio when you listen to the person narrating their personal story it's it's
just it's just so special you feel close to them and yeah that's one of the reasons i love audio
if you're interested in audiobooks i'd love to know if this is something that you
are interested in listening to it comes out in june 2022 i myself have been getting into
audiobooks recently as well so i'd love to know if you are a fan of audiobooks
let me know down in the comment section below and hopefully see my next one bye