A Voice of History – Book Trailer Production
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Yesterday, amid the chaos of my modern life, I got to be the voice of a woman long passed from this earth.
The job was for a book trailer. What a great idea – to make a trailer like a movie trailer, but for a book.
It was a great honour to be a woman who had lived in slavery, and had found pride and strength in the power she had.
All the training I ever had was only teaching me to reveal the human heart – now I saw that. I could feel her world flowing through me – I had no concern about doing a good job or sounding okay.
It wasn’t about “doing it right” it was about letting it flow – allowing the pride and sadness and life to flow through me. I was merely the instrument of the story. Nothing more and nothing less.
The narration was recorded for Book Shorts produced by Judith Keenan, directed by Irene Duma. The book is called “The Power: A Novel of Voodoo” by James Duggin.
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