Audio description for film & tv

This module familiarises you with audio description for film and television and the contexts for its production.

It identifies the main techniques and interpretative frameworks used to  make films and tv programmes accessible to blind and visually impaired viewers.

You will be introduced to the decision-making processes involved in constructing an effective audio description.

These include identification of essential and non-essential onscreen action or mise-en-scene, critical awareness of the extent of narrative description and cultural dispositions for the range of emotive inflection.

You will acquire the ability to interpret and explain a complex narrative, fitting this to the constraints posed by diegetic dialogue and sound effects.