Stephen Kemble – författare

‘How I wish this book had been available to me when I started my voiceover career!’ Miriam MargolyesA concise handbook outlining the skills, the know-how and the business of voiceovers, with a particular focus on the UK industry. Stephen Kemble, a voiceover artist and voice coach, and David Hodge, who has worked as a sound engineer, voice director and as Company Manager at a voice agency, offer specialist advice on all areas of voiceover work, including commercials, narration, audio books, animation and dubbing.Knowing your voiceUnderstanding and acquiring the skills of a voiceoverHow to prepare for recording sessionsTechnical aspects and protocol of working in a studioKnowing your personal strengths, making the all-important showreel and finding an agentLooking after your voiceDealing with dyslexiaTips from agents, producers, engineers and voiceoversTerminologyAn ideal guide for anyone who has a curiosity about voiceovers and what’s involved. Of particular interest to drama school students preparing to enter the industry, and professional actors who want to tap into the voiceover business.

The book describes current mission analysis and design techniques that may be applied to a very wide range of interplanetary missions from those targeting the inner planets to those destined for the outer planets and Solar System escape trajectories. The early chapters comprise an introduction and a description of the fundamentals of interplanetary missions, aspects of leaving Earth and planet orbit selection and insertion. A discussion of various propulsion systems for interplanetary transfer is followed by a detailed overview of transfer techniques, including the principles of gravity assist and a range of applications of this technique, low-thrust transfers in combination with gravity assist and for planetary escape and capture and the utilisation of multi-body gravity perturbations. The final chapter deals with various optimisation methods for interplanetary missions.The dynamics of the problems are analysed and algorithms that may be used to solve the problems are presented. Practical difficulties that may be encountered are also discussed. The mission design options are considered in the context of spacecraft types, ranging from high thrust, nuclear thermal rockets to low thrust ion propulsion systems. A series of specific examples are described in detail in the appendices, covering ‘end-to-end’ mission design for some topical space mission scenarios.