#audio description

[shadow27]

Doctor Who is celebrating 60 years by releasing over 800 episodes on BBC iPlayer.

The sci-fi fantasy show first premiered in 1963 and has cemented itself as a permanent fixture in pop culture history. This fall, fans will be able to stream the entire 800-plus episode series along with spin-offs like Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, and Class, and the behind-the-scenes series Doctor Who Confidential.

Each Dr Who episode will be made accessible for all Whovians, with subtitles, audio description, and sign language options available for the very first time.

[bthemistake]

"Fated For Love And Death" - Selena and Charles

EDIT- [Audio Description: The characters Selena Beauregard and Charlie Beckendorf, from the Percy Jackson series. They are holding each other, eyes closed, with each has a hand extended behind their partner.

Charlie is dropping a match, symbolic to his sacrifice in the war against Kronos and the boats explosion, while Selena holds Clarisse's spear, symbolic to her stealing her friends armour (which she is wearing) and chariot to lead the Ares kids into the final battle in an attempt to right the wrongs she made in aiding Luke.

Their foreheads rest gently together and they hold each other, Charlies hand on Selena's waist, and her hand holding his arm. They are both in their final moments, seconds before death, allowing themselves to bid farewell to their love and life.]

[accessibleaesthetics]

Audio Description

What Is It?

Audio description is a verbal description of key visual elements in a video. A standard audio description is a separate audio track that plays on top of the base one and describes visuals during natural pauses in the base audio. Extended audio description is when a video is set to pause itself to give room for more detailed audio description.

Here are two examples of the same video, one with standard audio description, one with extended audio description:

Standard Audio Description - Ai-Media Example [AD]

Extended Audio Description - Ai-Media Example [AD]

Where Is It?

While extended audio description is still exceedingly rare, you can find standard audio description on a large number of programs across multiple streaming services! Next time you're watching your favorite show, go to the settings and switch it on for a few minutes to get a feel for how it works.

[hiiisorryimlate]

I love captions so much

[eggsaladstain]

thinking about the audio descriptions from 1899

[nic-coughlan]

"colin's eyes glisten as he watches, enraptured, helpless"

JEYSUS IT JUST GETS WORSE OUR BOY WAS PRACTICALLY WEEPING

[senseiwu]

Just saw that Dragons Rising has audio description.

As a visually impaired fan, I was super excited.

If you don't know, audio description is another audio track, like a language dub, that describes the scene on screen for people with low/no vision. It describes what's going on, at least basic things about characters or scenery, usually during gaps in dialogue.

....this was not it.

My excitement turned to crushing disappointment in less than a minute.

A robotic voice greeted me with "Ninjago Dragons Rising", and then the title of the episode.

Arin does his speech, but. There's no mention of what he's doing. Or that his parents are watching him/that he looks to them.

Do you know what the first thing this robotic voice that i dont even think is a human says?

"A portal opens, and a dragon flies out/past".

....that's it.

No mention of the colours. The shape of the portal. The looks on peoples faces.

I stopped watching there for now. It's late, and I just wanted to check it out before I forgot. I'll watch more tomorrow and give more thoughts.

But this is really disappointing, Lego.

[the-mountain-flower]

If I made an audio description of Aurora, would anyone be interested in joining? Like voice actors or audio producers (I'm fully willing to do the entire thing myself, but it'd be awesome if I didn't have to)

(By audio description: think the kind they use in movies/shows aimed toward blind ppl so they can enjoy it too. That combined with an audiobook. Like that, but for a comic)

[wronghands1]

[fyeah-tmnt]

Josh Brener is just a younger sibling taking revenge on his older siblings

Audio description:

Josh Brener says: "As a kid, my older brothers were huge Ninja Turtles fans and had all the toys. Which they would not let me touch or play with ever. So for me, this has been a journey about revenge. And I have my very own action figure now Marc and Seth so WHY DON'T CHA SUCK ON- (audio gets cut off)

[good-soupmens]

Y'all should turn on the audio description for good omens, I'm doing BACKFLIPS

It's great for the visually impaired, but it also works for autism. I have trouble interpreting some cues/gestures/facial expressions, especially in the finale when there's a lot going on

It says things like "Aziraphale walks back into the bookshop, deep in thought" "Crowley looks disappointed" "Aziraphale turns away and begins to cry"

Too many things I didn't notice and I'm like OH. That single facial expression was foreshadowing. Plus, you get to hear it passionately describe the kiss so that's cool

[marcmarcmomarc]

RWBY Volume 1 credits (with fan-made Audio Description)

[goddamnalientourists]

The Heartstopper audio description said they were watching a "Christmas movie" but it was a doctor who christmas special 😭😭😭

[danathon23]

I just watched All Of Us Strangers and I had the audio description on. I really liked the movie but oh wow the audio description was exciting! Specifically because of a connection I noticed between the first and last scene. (Possible spoilers!)

Here are my thoughts I jotted down right after finishing the movie, trying to recall the audio description from memory.

The audio description of the opening scene described sunlight reflecting on a building getting brighter orange, intensifying like a starburst. The end scene of Adam and Harry resting in bed drew further away making them smaller, and then morphed into a ball of light. It became a shining star in the night sky.

[ace1diots]

[short video clip of Biffa mining. He says “Yaaaay!” and the video clip ends]

behold my favorite hermitcraft recap gag where they reuse this clip whenever anyone says yay ever it makes me so unreasonably happy that I had to clip it for myself. I want to put this audio clip into a soundboard and just press it when anything good happens

I will also actually try and sleep now that my meds have kicked in! gn gaymers <3

[perplexingluciddreams]

I finished Edward Scissorhands (again) and now watching Frankenweenie! (The one by Tim Burton).

It is all stop motion animation! And in complete black and white. Makes much easier to watch, less visual clutter, less overwhelming.

Winona Ryder voices one of the characters 😄!

I have audio description on as well. The combination of audio description and the black and white and the stop motion animation, means I get a lot more information about what is happening on screen than usual!