Creative Audio description
Date
ongoing
Location
anytime / anywhere
Institution/Event
any partner
Summary
“What you see is what you say” is a rule of thumb in audio description services.
But a time comes when you decide to go creative and approach audio description through an artistic lense… one in which poetry, drama and suggestion elevates a service for blind users to a mode of expression in its own right. This is where wordpainting (use of expressive language) and soundpainting (use of music and sound effects) come together to create enriched descriptions and to evoke feelings and emotions. This is also where AI will find it difficult to substitute human mediation.
And who said audio description is a service for blind users?
A Sample below (in Portuguese):