[Studiotalk] Narrators for Westerns or other titles

[Nancy Gahagan]

Here you go all! I also attached a sample of how it gets filled out by my
volunteer. You may have suggestions to improve so please feel free to offer
them. I do find it helpful because it is so time consuming to go through
each book. This has turned into a handy reference for us to narrow down the
book choices for each narrator.

Best,
Nancy

Nancy Gahagan
Recording Studio Manager
Perkins School for the Blind

Perkins Library
175 North Beacon Street
Watertown MA 02472
P: 617-972-7362
Perkins.org

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On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Easter, Josh <Josh.Easter at state.sd.us>
wrote:

> This is a great topic!
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> Could you share the pre-production assessment paper you use. That’s a
> great idea!
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> Thanks,
>
> Josh Easter
> Equipment and Audio Production Manager
> South Dakota Braille & Talking Book Library Program
> SD State Library, 800 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501
> Phone: 605.773.5082 / 1.800.423.6665 (SD only)  Fax: 605.773.6962
> Josh.Easter at state.sd.us     http://library.sd.gov
>
> *From:* studiotalk [mailto:studiotalk-bounces at islemail.org] *On Behalf Of
> *Nancy Gahagan
> *Sent:* Monday, June 11, 2018 1:29 PM
> *To:* TBBS Recording Studio Info
> *Subject:* Re: [EXT] [Studiotalk] Narrators for Westerns or other titles
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> Hi Everyone!
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> We do try to fit the material to the narrator and not just by gender. We
> have a volunteer who goes through all of our books and fills out a
> pre-production assessment of the book so that we can have an idea of what
> is in the book before assigning it. We know we have certain readers who do
> better with non-fiction vs fiction because they don't handle dialogue well.
> Some do not handle foreign language well. Some don't have facility with
> long, complicated sentences. We do a lot of Red Sox books. We like to
> choose narrators for those books who are sports fans because it comes
> across in the reading.The style, vocal quality and delivery of the narrator
> all play into our decision about choosing books for them. We have heard
> from our patrons that the voice being suited to the material is important
> to them.
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> We usually give our narrators a choice of a couple of books that we think
> suits their voice best. We've run into problems with narrators choosing
> their own books because of some of the aforementioned things. We had a
> recent example of this, where the previous studio manager let one of our
> narrators do a book they really wanted to do, but it was full of long
> complicated sentences and foreign language, two things this reader does not
> handle well. So we ended up with many more corrections to do in
> post-production which took a lot of time and delayed the release of the
> book.
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>
> Thanks for bringing this topic up. It is interesting to hear how everyone
> handles this!
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> *Nancy Gahagan*
>
> Recording Studio Manager
> Perkins School for the Blind
>
> Perkins Library
> 175 North Beacon Street
> Watertown MA 02472
> P: 617-972-7362
> Perkins.org
>
>
>
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> On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Coffman, Linden <LCoffman at library.in.gov>
> wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I have a question concerning selecting books for narrator and in this case
> specifically westerns.  As I have more females narrators available would
> you see a problem with having some of them reading westerns.  I’ve always
> felt that the male voice is what goes best with this genre, but I was
> wondering if it really matters that much.  That also brings up another
> thought.   Does gender matter that much in regards to what you have you
> narrators reading or not if the book is non-fiction or fiction told in
> third person?  Haven’t run across any guidelines on this. I’ve just been
> doing what seems to sound right.  Suggestions?  Advice?
>
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> Linden Coffman
>
> Director
>
> Indiana Voices
>
> Indiana State Library
>
> Talking Book & Braille Library
>
> 315 West Ohio Street
>
> Indianapolis, IN 46202
>
> 317-232-3683
>
> E-mail: lcoffman at library.in.gov
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