audio describer

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AudioDescriber


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Have you heard

about the audiodescriber career?


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First, it is important to understand

some concepts:1. Whats audio description?

Audio description is the narration ofall visual media, such as television,film, dance, opera and visual art.

2. Whos the public of audio description? Blind people or people withlow vision.


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Audio description is a form of

audio-visual translation [AVT] anduses natural pauses in dialoguesand between critical sound

elements to insert narrative thattranslate the image into a senseform that is accessible to millions

of individuals


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How to become anaudio describer?

1. Find out local organizations of audiodescribers in your city;

2. Know if you have talent;3. Try to make courses to improve your

skills;4. Learn to use the right programs and

make good audio descriptions;5. Make your curriculum andsearch for jobs


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Important skills needed to a

good audio describer:1. Have a pleasant voice;2. Have a good command of the language;3. Do not have strong accent;

4. Enunciate well the words and sentences;5. Never be distracting from the

performance being described;6. Do not let the emotions influence the

description;7. Pay attention to the minimumdetails.


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Future of Audio Description

The National Eye Institute saysblindness or low vision affects 3.3million Americans age 40 and over, or1 in 28. This figure is projected to reach5.5 million by 2020 (NEI, 2004).

So, we can expect a growing demandfor audio description.


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My first description job was for theWisconsin Council of the Blind. We createda 13-minute promotional video from a set

of black and white photos of visuallyimpaired people at their jobs. I decidedon a male voicer and on myself to createthe description. It turned out well, exceptfor the videographer who walked off the

job because he couldnt wrap his headaround the description, arguing that itwasnt necessary to describe somethingthat was on the screen because I was onlyrepeating it. That experience taught methat some people cannot separate theact of seeing from that of hearing.

- Kellen Warren


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Samples of Audio Descriptions

1. Description of a painting:In this painting a warm russet lightsuffuses the Autumn scene and tells usthat it is late afternoon. The low angleof the afternoon sun makes the rippleson the water from the barely movingshell, large in the foreground, contrastwith the mirror-like surface of the river.

A few trees clothed in their fall colorsgrow out of a jut of land on the leftbank of the river downstream behindSchmitt's boat and cast theirreflections in perfect symmetry onthe mirror of the river's still surface.


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2. Trailer of Frozen


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3. Scene of The Hunger Games Katniss Hunter

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