Audio Description Links - June 2024
This is a blog that mostly focuses on the art, craft and promotion of audio description. Here's a human curated round up of interesting podcasts and other links related to audio description in June 2024.
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Audio Pizza Episode 134 - Nefertiti, The Queen of AD Serves Up Audio PizzaScott, Shaun, and Garth are joined today by
Nefertiti Matos Olivares to talk everything Audio Description. Nefertiti is the Workflow Manager: Quality and Inclusion forDescriptive Video Works , and Project Lead, Narrator and QC Specialist at theSocial Audio Description Collective . -
Blind Centered Audio Description Chat: The 4-20 Watch & Listen Party
On BCAD in a “joint” production with
Social Audio Description Collective held a “Watch & Listen Party”.We invited the community to watch and or listen to the films, Impaired Volume 1 – Compassion and Impaired Volume 2 – Mutual Aid.
Films were shown with audio description created by SADC, followed by a conversation with the non visual artist
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ADNA Presents: Marin MillerMarin Miller , voice actor, discusses AD, ADR, writing AD and the industry. -
Making Bridgerton Sound Hotter Is Her Day Job by
Savannah Salazar (Variety).An interview with
Liz Gutman , audio description writer. Liz previously wrote an audio introduction for Bridgerton, and was interviewed in on The Dark Room. -
Recording and Placing Audio Description in Reaper - A Comprehensive Guide and
Recording and Placing Audio Description in Audacity.
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Kyle Warwick-Matthieu demonstrates AD placement in two common DAWs for indie, homebrew, DIY and vigilante describers everywhere. Level up! -
Descriptive Video Works - GAAD Panel DiscussionRhys Lloyd ,Nefertiti Matos Olivares ,Jenna "Jennissary" , andCoty Craven discuss audio description in video games.
Discussions Elsewhere
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Italian Audio Describer
Alessia Bosio beautifully summarises How to write an Audio Introduction (LinkedIn) - Donning Smiles and Wearing Expressions, an insightful discussion of economy and subjectivity in writing (Facebook).
Academic Papers
These papers are free to read, and do not require registration, request, or payment.
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Language for Specific Purposes and Audio Description Tasks: A Case Study by Mª Ángeles Escobar-Álvarez
This paper offers an innovative didactic proposal of Audio Description in the English for Tourism classroom. It supports the hypothesis that authentic tasks enhance communicative skills in LSP (Language for Specific Purposes) education.
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An Approach to Audio Description of Humour in Different Cultural Settings by
María López Rubio The aim of this paper is to provide an approach to how humour and cultural aspects travel in audiovisual comedies, and their influence on how audio described scripts are produced in different countries.
Historical Links
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What's in a Name? ().
Fran Mathey discusses her experiences describing a film peopled by un-named characters - The dangers of taking a blind friend to see Fifty Shades of Grey () from
The Spectator , via archive.org.