* COURSE
This online Audiobook Production and Narration course teaches you how to make audiobooks using proven techniques and approaches.
* COURSE
This online Audiobook Production and Narration course teaches you how to make audiobooks using proven techniques and approaches.
This course is designed to teach you audiobook production and narration by showing you how to plan, record, perform, and produce them.
It is taught by a professional documentary filmmaker who has also personally narrated and produced 26 audiobooks - principally long-form fiction - on Audible.
Learn what makes excellent audiobooks.
Learn the Reaper software (see second Preview lecture for why) and resources to help make your audiobooks shine.
Learn how to use the principles and psychology of performance and acting to create outstanding audiobooks.
Make your audiobooks using proven techniques.
Discover tips on using a highly effective workflow when making audiobooks.
Make money using the audiobooks you make using the techniques and methods you will master in this course.
What makes me qualified to teach you?
I'm Paul, a professional documentary film director with 25 long-form film credits. Some of these films I narrated personally. I have also solo-produced and narrated 26 audiobooks on Audible. Plus, I'm the creator of popular courses on Udemy - with over 60,000 students and hundreds of 5-star reviews.
Learn techniques that I have used along the way (and avoid mistakes I made) drawn from my experience making audiobooks and from decades of professional media experience.
Is this coaching or instruction from an 'audiobook industry professional'?
No. Such coaching and programs are often highly priced and may be better suited to those from a professional acting background or those with enough experience to know that audiobooks are a path for them.
There are free resources on the Internet. This course aims to serve as a helpful start and resource for those engaging in audiobook production and narration. It is based on my own experience and the best of what I learned elsewhere.
The course indicates ways of saving time and energy along the way.
My Promise to You
If you have any questions about the course content or anything related to this topic, you can always post a question in the course.
The software we use, Reaper, is available for a $60 one-time fee - the full version is a free demo for 60 days.
Dive Right In
Learn how to prepare and interpret books.
Learn how established acting principles and techniques can be used to amplify the impact of your audiobooks.
Learn how to use freely available (free and paid) apps to improve your audiobook quality.
Learn how to use a workflow that saves time, money, and energy.
Learn how to use your audiobook production and narration skills online.
Start making audiobooks today.
With our 30-day 100% money-back guarantee, nothing is holding you back from jumping in and trying the course.
Click the enroll button, and I'll see you in lesson 1.
Cheers,
Paul
This lecture shows how to use the Config files linked in the Resources folder of this lecture to rapidly set up your copy of Reaper in a way that is dedicated to audiobook narration and voiceover.
Find one fiction, and one non-fiction, text - needs only be about a paragraph or so - and underline where you feel the emphasis needs to be in that paragraph. Which word, or short phrase, do you wish to 'hit'?
Then try recording it in Reaper. Listen back.
Did it work?
Did you hit the right emphasis?
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