scholarly journals Staging the Audio Describer: An Exploration of Integrated Audio Description

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Fryer
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Stage Directions ◽  
A Company

This article explores the phenomenon of integrated audio description (AD) and the ways in which access provision for blind people can be embedded into the creative process. Exploring a practical example where a describer became a character within a production staged by a company of blind and partially blind actors, it compares an approach to AD that is open and collaborative with traditional closed approaches, where the AD is delivered by an external interpreter. The consequences for the authenticity of the access and the language of the AD are also discussed in order to explore how tense, timing and flexibility distinguish AD from stage directions.

scholarly journals Seeing films through sound: Sound design, spatial audio, and accessibility for visually impaired audiences

2020 ◽  
pp. 026461962093593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Lopez ◽  
Gavin Kearney ◽  
Krisztián Hofstädter
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
End Users ◽  
Short Film ◽  
First Person ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
Spatial Audio ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Audio Description

Enhancing Audio Description is a research project that explores how sound design, first-person narration, and binaural audio could be utilised to provide accessible versions of films for visually impaired audiences, presenting an alternative to current audio description (AD) practices. This article explores such techniques in the context of the redesign of the short film ‘Pearl’, by discussing the creative process as well as evaluating the feedback supplied by visually impaired audiences. The research presented in this article demonstrates that the methods proposed were as successful as traditional AD in terms of providing information, enjoyment, and accessibility to audiences, demonstrating that both practices can coexist and, as a result, cater for the different stylistic preferences of end users.

scholarly journals Problem definition as a stimulus to the creative process: Analysis of a classroom exercise

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renato Vizioli ◽  
Paulo Kaminski
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Mba Program ◽  
A Company ◽  
Creative Effort

Dealing with problem-solving has been a growing challenge in teaching engineering and over the career of these professionals. To increase the ability to understand a problem and consequently improve the quality of the solutions, an exercise was proposed to students of an MBA program, and they have experienced some challenges on interpreting briefing and procedures, to improve creativity and ability on solving problems. The implicit goal was to deal with the understanding of procedures to perform activities in a company and the exercise showed different ways of communicating a scenario and, consequently, different reactions depending upon the briefing. Preliminary results of the exercise indicated that the higher the degree of uncertainty on the problem definition or on an activity description, the more often association is attempted through individual repertoire, covering more varied options. In the case of a tight briefing, the creative effort appears to be overlapped by the execution of simple operations, resulting on a deviation from the required goal. Through a brief theoretical framework, this essay intends to validate these perceptions and increase the use of techniques that improve creative and problem-solving capacity in product design and development.

scholarly journals Le petit livre: el jardín de papel de Gilles Clément

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Carlos Ávila Calzada
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
A Company

The Garden in Motion is a concept that was developed by Gilles Clément in the early 1980s as the result of the experimentation conducted in his garden-house, La Vallée. Clément’s interest in promoting this garden archetype based on managing neglected land led him to write a number of works in order to explain the conceptual underpinnings of his model, with the ultimate aim of having them published. From the writing of the first manuscripts, dating from 1984, to the first edition of “Le jardin en movement” in 1991, he produced a series of different documents that would form the basis of the text that was finally published. It was a long process in which Clément not only had to fully develop his ideas but also to overcome the difficulties involved in finding a company to publish what he called his ‘petit livre’. The aim of this article is to show the creative process behind Clément’s book and its relationship with the creative process of building his garden, while endeavouring to reply to the question of whether it is possible to establish an equivalence between both processes. This is made possible through the analysis of documents kept by Clément in his personal archive, some of which have never been published.

scholarly journals Disability as Method: Interventions in the Habitus of Ableism through Media-Creation

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arseli Dokumaci
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Visual Ethnography ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Physically Disabled ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Stop Time ◽  
Media Creation ◽  
The City

In this article, I share and reflect on a research-creation video that introduces what I call 'disability as method' to critical disability and media studies. The video draws on a year-long visual ethnography, during which I collaborated with a blind and a physically disabled participant to explore the specificities of their mobility experiences in the city of Montreal. In making this video, I use the affordances of filming and editing in creative ways both to explore what access could mean to differently disabled people in the space of the city and to reimagine new possibilities of media-making informed by blindness gain. To this end, I introduce a new audio description (AD) technique by using stop-time as crip-time, and deploying AD not only as an accessibility feature but also as a blind intervention in the creative process of filmmaking itself.

Audio Description Described

2016 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Kleege
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Current Standards

Audio description seeks to make visual media—film, television, theater, art exhibits—accessible to blind people. In this essay I use the audio-described version of the Oscar-nominated film The Sessions as an example of the current standards. I then speculate on future innovations that could democratize the medium and make it more inclusive.

Gains and losses of watching audio described films for sighted viewers

Target ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Perego
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Scene Recognition ◽  
Target Audience ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Audiovisual Material ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
Viewing Experience

Abstract Audio description (AD) is a unique form of communication that guarantees access to audiovisual material for blind people through an additional verbal commentary that describes relevant visual cues. In spite of its original purpose and target audience, some scholars and some guidelines maintain that AD can be useful for other sectors of the population, and suggest that sighted viewers could usefully listen to AD when ‘watching’ a film with blind people. In order to determine whether AD affects the sighted viewer’s cognitive performance and appreciation of the film, and whether AD can be exploited as an integration tool allowing blind and sighted users to mingle when ‘watching’ a film, we assessed the effect of AD on sighted viewers (n = 125, 18-28 years) empirically. Results suggest that the addition of AD to films does not negatively affect the cognitive aspects of the viewing experience (i.e., general understanding and film scene recognition), nor does it dramatically affect its overall enjoyment, whereas listening to AD without the visuals poses some challenges to sighted viewers.

Audio Description Described

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Kleege
Keyword(s):  
Visual Media ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Current Standards

Audio description seeks to make visual media—film, television, theater, art exhibits—accessible to blind people. This chapter uses the audio described version of the Oscar-nominated film The Sessions as an example of the current standards. Audio description of film is timed to fit in the silences between spoken dialogues which means that only minimal detail is possible. Even more problematic is the rule that description must be objective. Often important information is omitted when it is understood as interpretative. I then speculate on future innovations that could bypass some of these problems, democratize the medium and make it more aesthetic and inclusive.

PELAYANAN JASA PIJAT TUNA NETRA TERHADAP PELANGGAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dewi Suci Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
The Body ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Service Company ◽  
Normative Approach ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Good Shape ◽  
A Company

Service company is a company that sells services to meet the needs of consumers. In other words, service companies selling "stuff" intangible”. Blind People Massage Kediri is one of the company in the field of Health. Massage is an muscular emphasis on certain parts of the body with the aim to eliminate the pain and brings the body back into good shape. Services are additional activities out of the main tasks given to the consumer as well as the perceived either as a appreciation or respect. The purpose of this study was to determine whether performing well regarding service and remuneration at the Blind Massage Kediri. This type of research is qualitative research. So this research is a field of research that is both analytic perspectivewhichis located in Kediri Blind Massage. Methods of data collection using interviews. The existing problems in this study then analyzed the normative approach and deductive-inductive analysis. The results of this study can be concluded that the service and remuneration at the Blind Massage Kediri have done much better. Key Words: Service company, Blind People Massage

scholarly journals Getting the Picture: My Experience with Described Art

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Werner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Verbal Description ◽  
Art Appreciation ◽  
Blind People ◽  
Audio Description ◽  
Blind Children ◽  
Key Words Blindness

<p>In the latter half of the twentieth century, blind children were given little--if any--instruction in art appreciation and criticism.&nbsp; This lamentable gap in their education made it difficult for them not only to appreciate pictures but also to understand artistic conventions.&nbsp; The author relates instances of how he came to grapple with the meaning of artistic movements and how they could be enhanced by realizing their connections with parallel movements in music.&nbsp; A consistent process by which art can be elucidated to blind people should include explaining the basics of what is going on in the picture, putting the work in an artistic context, elaborating on seemingly minute but important details, and discussing any critical controversies about the work's interpretation.&nbsp; Commendable work is being done in helping the blind appreciate art, but more needs to be done.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Key words: Blindness, blind museum access, verbal description of art, audio description.&nbsp;</p>

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