the visual made verbal

  • Orality and Storytelling

    Lend me your eyes so my ears can see

    Audio description or AD is the oral narrative system used in film, and during certain live events such as theatre performances and sporting competitions, to compensate for the absence of images for the visually deficient. ADs of screenworks are pre-recorded, but for live events the description is spoken by the describer simultaneously with the event. In this post, beginning from the origins of AD, we'll visit the various stages involved in creating the audio description for a screen fiction by which an audio describer works to make the visual become verbal.