BTI producing audio guides for Cold War exhibition
BTI is well known for our dubbing and voice over productions. However, we also produce and localise audio content for some more niche projects.
The Swedish Naval Museum is currently running their biggest exhibition ever: Surface Tension – Cold War in the Baltic Sea 1979-1989. The exhibition is expected to attract tourists from several countries around the Baltic Sea and northern Europe. To make the exhibition more accessible for foreign visitors, the Naval Museum asked BTI to produce advanced audio guides in Polish, German, English and Lithuanian.
The project was overseen by Robert Holmstrom, Head of Dubbing Operations at BTI. "It's exciting to do projects for a different type of client. Although the method of production is similar to a normal voice-over, we need to consider that an audio guide is a completely different medium to broadcast TV," Robert explains. "The actor must be aware that he's speaking directly to the end user, and the final mix has completely different sound levels [to those for a voice-over production]."
The exhibition is focused on the Swedish Navy's perspective on the final decade of the Cold War, when foreign submarines were spotted in the archipelago and there were regular incidents in the Baltic Sea. The exhibition also looks at the contrasts between civil and military society.
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