An Introduction to Audio Description: A practical guide / Edition 1

by Louise Fryer

Overview

An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the skills needed for the effective translation of images into words for the blind and partially-sighted.

A wide range of examples – from film to multimedia events and touch tours in theatre, along with comments throughout from audio description users, serve to illustrate the following key themes:

• the history of audio description
• the audience
• the legal background
• how to write, prepare and deliver a script.

Covering the key genres of audio description and supplemented with exercises and discussion points throughout, this is the essential textbook for all students and translators involved in the practice of audio description. Accompanying film clips are also available at: https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138848177 and on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/translationstudies/.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138848153
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/10/2016
Series:	Translation Practices Explained
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Louise Fryer is a teaching fellow at University College London and describes for the National Theatre of Great Britain and VocalEyes. For many years, she presented Afternoon on 3, Live in Concert and Proms for BBC Radio 3.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Tables

How to Use This Book

Acknowledgements

Glossary and List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1.Introducing Audio Description?

Chapter 2. A Brief history, Legislation and Guidelines

Chapter 3. Putting the Audio into Audio Description

Chapter 4. The Audience for Audio Description

Chapter 5. Audio Description Skills: Writing

Chapter 6 Audio Description Skills: Script preparation

Chapter 7 Audio Description Skills: Delivery

Chapter 8 Beyond the Basics: AD by genre

Chapter 9 Beyond the Basics: Text on Screen

Chapter 10. Beyond the Basics: Accessible film-making and Describing Camerawork

Chapter 11 AD and Censorship

Chapter 12 Audio introductions

Chapter 13 Contentious Issues and Future Directions in AD

Chapter 14 Afterword

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Editorial Reviews

'This book provides an extraordinary resource for researchers and practitioners of audio description. It not only surveys international research, and evaluates existing standards , but also offers practical, common sense advice that still allows for innovation.' Georgina Kleege, University of California, Berkeley, USA

'For anybody who knows a little about AD and wishes to conduct more research, or wishes to audio describe, this book is indispensable. (...) Beautifully written, clear, practical and thought-provoking, this book is an AVT-study gem.' Kristijan Nikolić, University College London, London, UK

'[I]t is an essential reading for anyone interested and involved in audio description practice and/or research.' Anna Jankowska, Jagiellonian University in Kraków/Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Poland

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