Last year at NMM one of the presentations was about audio description of
films/videos -- many of you may remember the audio description of the
the whale, among other examples. I found that topic eye opening (or ear
opening perhaps would be a better way to put it.) Enlightening, even ...
to move the pun even more towards the ridiculous. (Funny how we can use
vision-centric to describe both visual and sound ... but as usual I
digress ...)
Here's an article I came across that follows up nicely on the topic --
it reminds me of a scene from the recent movie about Temple Grandin --
the scene where Temple (Claire Danes) gives her blind friend a running
commentary of the TV show (or movie?) being watched by a group of
dormmates at school.
By the way, movie watching in Indonesia is a public act. If you don't
talk, explain, wonder and ask during a movie, it's almost like you're
anti-social. Just thought I'd throw that in.
"Boxed Out: Visually Impaired Audiences, Audio Description and the
Cultural Value of the Television Image"
Elizabeth Jane Evans and Roberta Pearson
/Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies/
Volume 6, Issue 2 (November 2009)
http://www.participations.org/Volume%206/Issue%202/evans.htm
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