Eljin Productions

08/03/2022

What can you at this stage in your career to attract more passion projects? Another way to ask this might be, how can you stick out in a producers' mind so there are more opportunities to audition for choice ? A tough, important question— let's dive in! Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/dwDqtCUP

I met with a talented narrator last week, someone who ticks a lot of boxes—super-intelligent, ambitious, and entrepreneurial. At the end of our chat, the performer left me with an important question: "What can I do at this stage in my career to attract more passion projects?" Another way

04/03/2022

Each year, the Audio Publishers Association honors the best titles in audio publishing at a gala awards ceremony. In 2022, the Twenty-Seventh Annual Audie Awards® ceremony will be held online today! Awards will be given in twenty-five categories including of the Year. Good luck to all finalists! You can read more about them here: https://www.audiopub.org/winners/2022-audies-1

24/02/2022

requires attention to organization and scheduling— and occasionally, unforeseen events create a little chaos. Keeping that chaos in check can be challenging, but certain behaviors can help make the job easier for everyone involved.

When personal problems inevitably get in the way of a project deadline or commitment, there are three ways to ensure professional courtesy. We cover all three in our latest blog: https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/i7gxxwsk23lwgw6x63hj1aevp3hrrf

A pretty short post this week in two sections: one professional, one personal. At any given moment, our team deals with a lot of audiobook projects. The present count on our Trello board is 47, and that’s not an especially busy workload. We assign staff, set up workflows, keep materials coming and

15/02/2022

If you record audiobooks, you’re probably familiar with this abbreviation: DAW— digital audio workstation. It’s the software that allows narrators to capture, store, and edit their performances— and to mix and master them, as well. But with so many options on the market, how do you find the best DAW for your needs? We take a deep dive on the top features to consider in our latest blog: https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/how-to-record-audiobooks-picking-the-best-daw

If you record audiobooks, you’re probably familiar with this abbreviation: DAW— d igital a udio w orkstation. It’s the software that allows narrators to capture, store, and edit their performances—and to mix and master them, as well. Put simply: You can’t do audiobooks without using a DAW....

14/02/2022

Happy Valentine's Day! We hope you find time today to connect with the people and characters you love the most. 📖 ❤️

26/01/2022

A popular topic of conversation in the industry is the directing process: What does it take to be a successful director, and how do you ensure a recording session runs smoothly? With more than twenty-five years of experience, we're sharing our top 8 tips to keep in mind when actors for audiobook : https://lnkd.in/dxqSd_um

Recently, someone who works for me asked me about directing audiobooks. I’ve done it for more than twenty-five years, often successfully. So I shared some thoughts. Here they are:

18/01/2022

Let’s cut to the chase in this last episode of our mini-series; Talent marketplace apps help Producer X cast audiobooks. A lot.

But how do these Talent Marketplace Apps work, which apps are the best apps currently available, and what can we expect from these solutions in the future? We cover all of this and more in our last blog of the series. Read it here: https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/is-audiobook-casting-noisy-3-x-casts

Let’s cut to the chase in this last episode of the mini-series; it’s obvious where I’m going. The Chase: Talent marketplace apps help Producer X to cast audiobooks. A lot.

04/01/2022

When it comes to audiobook casting, there’s a whole lot of information to collect and process—and frankly, a whole lot of noise to tune out! And the conditions under which this happens are complex and pressure-filled. So, the questions becomes: How do we help to make audiobook casting less noisy—and simply less difficult— for our producer? Dive into part three of this blog series here: https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/is-audiobook-casting-noisy-3

I’m a big proponent of empathy in business. I like to understand what people go through to perform their jobs. Here’s an afternoon in the life of a producer doing audiobook casting. Producer X has ten programs to cast, and there’s lotsa stuff to contend with: X has had to read and think about ...

02/01/2022

Did you know that Sci-Fi is one of the top five best-selling genres of audiobooks in the United States?

Happy day to all of our Sci-Fi readers out there! Let us know if there’s a good book we should have on our radar in the comments below!

01/01/2022

Thanks for being with us in 2022!

We’re here to answer all of your audiobook production questions, from the outcomes of talent marketplace applications to the best recording equipment available. Are there any topics you hope we cover in the new year?👇👇

28/12/2021

Casting audiobooks is far more complex than checking a box yes or no. It’s about setting parameters to aggregate possibilities, weighing choices among those possibilities, then reaching a point at which the best candidate emerges. That is to say: Casting involves not a single decision but a series of them. Part two of this blog series is out now: https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/is-audiobook-casting-noisy-2

A short, kind of obvious aside on casting: Imagine a set of judgments made by three to five people about several hundred narrators. It’s a thumbs-up / thumbs-down vote: approve/disapprove, like/dislike, care/don’t care. Just choose. In the end, the voting reflects a fair amount of disagreement.

25/12/2021

There’s a lot to be thankful for this holiday season: good cheer, great company, and our ever-growing community. From all of us here at Eljin Productions, we’re wishing you and your family a joyful holiday season! 🎄

18/12/2021

For years, behavioral psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleague, Amos Tversky, studied "cognitive bias" as a source of error in decision-making, linking it to variability, unpredictability, noise.

When it comes to finding the right audiobook narrator, does his theory hold true? Let's talk about the casting process: https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/is-audiobook-casting-noisy-1

So, I’m thinking about casting and talent marketplace apps. Then I start listening to Daniel Kahneman’s Noise , read by Jonathan Todd Ross. (Nice job, Jonathan!) DK is a behavioral psychologist, economist, and Nobel Prize winner. You probably know his approach through something like Freakonomic

07/12/2021

Wide-diaphragm condenser mics. Dynamic mics. Shotguns. Ribbons. All work for different people, with different kinds of voices, in different settings.

So, when it comes to finding the best microphone for recording audiobooks, there’s no single solution.... right? Let's dive in: https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/vh1bt7ymq4nva6h4epgsrvx2kvyfil

29/11/2021

Annnnndddd....we're off and running!

https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/mvspsexl1u9za8m3uoo3jxa5odlrfm

Took a while . . . but here it is ! We needed an enterprise-scale, audiobook industry-wide platform for secure, fast transactions and reporting. Teams. Switching teams. Direct payments. Payments through agents. Payers who are individuals. Payers who are big companies. Automated business logi

22/11/2021

Lions, Tigers and AI! Oh my!

https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/s2d0o1ca358buirrz1cxh2unun6lwr

15/11/2021

A little history about our company...in case you were wondering....

https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/blog-post-title-four-g5hhj

08/11/2021

What are the ramifications of talent marketplace applications? We have an opinion for that!

https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/blog-post-title-one-cm8gc

Take a look at a few of the talent marketplace applications in the audiobook world. They’re changing audiobook casting.

29/10/2021

Since it is Halloween weekend we picked the scariest topic we could think of to write about - AI in the audiobook community.

Please enjoy our blog post for October:

https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/is-ai-really-that-scary-bad-news-good-news

For Halloween, a recurrent nightmare for some people in our business: The monster Robovoice takes hold of the audiobook industry and robs all narrators and production personnel of their jobs.

27/10/2021

Hey world! Eljin Productions is now on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. We hope to post news, publish calls for talent and other vendors, and let you know what we’re thinking about important topics in audiobooks.

Speaking of topics...here is our first blog post on just that.

https://productions.eljininc.com/blog/blog-post-title-two-k4xnz-mja6g

The blog is a completely new venture for us.

27/10/2021