Audio Description Podcasts - April 2024
This is a blog that mostly focuses on the art, craft and promotion of audio description. At the moment, I find the best conversations on those topics come from podcasts. Here is a round-up of all the podcasts of interest from April 2024.
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A Movie Trailer discussion with Kensuke Nakamura
(The Dark Room)
Lee and Alex discuss the accessibility and history of movie trailers with special guest Kensuke Nakamura from the Social Audio Description Collective. Kensuke discusses their process when making audio described trailers.
If this discussion interests you, Kensuke was previously interviewed on the topic on the Picture This podcast.
- 2024 Oscars Reaction And Dune: Part 2 Review (The Dark Room)
Alex and Lee give their reactions to the Oscars ceremony and winners and review DUNE: PART 2.
- Audio Description: New Ofcom Guidelines & Application in the Theatre from InTouch (BBC)
The communications regulator Ofcom has just amended its guidelines surrounding audio description for television and on-demand providers; and a look at creative audio description for a RSC production of A Midsummer's Night Dream.
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The ADNA Presents: Christian Cruz
Roy Samuelson in conversation with audio description Project Manager Christian Cruz. Topics discussed include the tension between the needs of the audience and studio requirements; the argument of quality versus quantity; some brief thoughts on profanity in AD; and compensation for AD creators.
Honourable Mention
If you're interested in writing audio description you're interested in writing, you're interested in language. Big Ideas is a regular podcast from the ABC and their April 24th episode is all about language.
It's a fun and vigorous discussion of the decoding of business vernacular, political spin and financial jargon, and how meaningless and silly it is.
If you love the English language, and hate the way debate is framed in the media by people who solemnly make pronouncements that seem reasonable in jargon, this is essential listening.