Final Year Project Showcase

About the Life Book series
The Life Book series is an initiative by the Singapore Hospice Council aiming to raise awareness about palliative care. By engaging the public with their community’s rich repository of stories told from many different perspectives, the goal is to make Singaporeans more comfortable talking about end-of-life matters by providing adequate and easily accessible information for their reference and use.

Our Role
We were brought in to create audiobook versions for Malay and Tamil speakers, building upon previous collaborations with SHC that yielded English and Chinese versions (which can be listened to on Storytel).

The Challenge
While it was essential that we maintain consistency with the audiobooks created previously, we challenged ourselves to iterate on them with our own sensibilities. This meant that on top of recording new narration for our target languages, we created new original soundtracks and Foley to accompany them as well.

Granny Cool is brought to life here by Insyriah Taib, exploring the relationship between Melissa and her fearless grandmother Sye Kee. Our other Malay narrators are Khairul Ikhwan, who tells the story in Lawrence of Arabia, and Puteri Quraishah, who narrated on both books.

The music in our audiobooks was created in MuseScore by Stephanie and Dillon, who took great care in ensuring that the tracks matched the emotions expressed in the stories to enhance them beyond what mere accompaniment can provide. You can listen to a selection of songs created for this project here.

Team member Jackking plays around with a variety of objects to create Foley effects for key moments in our audiobooks. He also edited together our Tamil audiobook.

Yuggesh Kumar and K Kirthana of the RP Indian Cultural Group provided the narration for Dr. Guardian Angel, which follows NSman Zach as he battles lung cancer with doctor Jane by his side. Recording their narration is Halizah, who was also in charge of editing our Malay audiobooks.

Our narration, music and Foley was assembled into a cohesive form using Pro Tools, making use of a variety of plugins and some volume automation to emphasise the important aspects of the audiobooks. A lot of care was put into ensuring that everyone's hard work could be heard in the final product in a seamless way that could be enjoyed as a whole.