Creative Description: Audio Describing Artistic Films for Individuals with Visual Impairments

Autor/in	Walczak, Agnieszka
Titel	Creative Description: Audio Describing Artistic Films for Individuals with Visual Impairments
Quelle	In: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 111 (2017) 4, S.387-391 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-482X
Schlagwörter	Visual Impairments; Films; Assistive Technology; Nonprint Media; Language Usage; Foreign Countries; Semi Structured Interviews; Production Techniques; Participant Satisfaction; Vocabulary; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Film; Sprachgebrauch; Ausland; Production engineering; Produktionstechnik; Wortschatz; Polen
Abstract	Audio description is a service aimed at widening accessibility to visual media such as film and television for all individuals, especially for people with sensory disabilities. It offers people who are blind or have low vision "a verbal screen onto the world" (Di´az Cintas, Orero, & Remael, 2007, p. 13). The standard rule when preparing audio description for film is that the text be as objective as possible; subjective or qualitative judgments are not considered necessary. Using technical terms in an audio description script, such as camera angles, "is discouraged and should only be used very sparingly" (Rai et al., 2010, p. 8). However, the author states, literal and supposedly "objective" descriptions may not present blind and visually impaired users with an "experience that is equal or equivalent to that of sighted persons" (Udo & Fels, 2009, p. 179). In this report, she proposes a new type of audio description for describing artistic films called creative description. By including emotive vocabulary and film terminology in the audio description script, "the feel of the scene" (Udo & Fels, 2009, p. 181) can be better recreated, and can thus increase people's immersion in the film or television show. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01