Chapter 11. Secondary elements in audio description

Orero, Pilar; Vilaro, Anna

doi:10.1075/btl.112.12ore

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“…This finding corroborates previous studies identifying AD as an effective pedagogical tool in language teaching (e.g., Herrero & Escobar, 2018; Ibáñez Moreno & Vermeulen, 2013, 2017; Navarrete, 2018; Walcazk, 2016) and highlights the importance of linguistic competence for audio describers (ADLAB PRO, 2017b; Díaz-Cintas, 2007; Matamala & Orero, 2007; Orero, 2005). Third, the significant correlation found between students’ knowledge level of film studies and their AD product quality corroborates previous findings on the importance of film knowledge for audio describers (Fryer & Freeman, 2013; Orero, 2012). Fourth, the significant correlation found between student’s interest in AD and their AD product quality encourages teachers to pay careful attention to material selection in AD teaching.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Assessment criteria in audio describer training: An investigation of learner perceptions in a university interpreting programme in Hong Kong of China

Yan,

Luo

2023

Interpreting and Society

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Audio description (AD), which renders images into words, is an important subject in the field of translation studies. Audio describer training (ADT) is provided in university translation programmes. However, research on AD pedagogy remains limited, and there are even fewer studies on AD learners. Based on the commonalities between AD and interpreting, especially in terms of quality assessment criteria, this study explored students’ perceptions of ADT and interpreter training in a postgraduate programme in Hong Kong of China. An Audio Description Rating Scale (ADRS) was designed to collect students’ perceptions of ADT, with a focus on quality assessment criteria. Thirty-six students participated in the study. The results show that three particular criteria of AD were identified as the most difficult to achieve: “no unjustified addition,” “appropriate language styles,” and “synchronisation with images.” Furthermore, significant correlations were found between students’ perceptions of certain AD and interpreting criteria, and between interpreting proficiency and AD learning. Individual differences were also recognised in AD learners. The findings shed light on the interactions between the learning of AD and interpreting. The study is expected to inspire trainers to develop more diverse and refined integrations of ADT into existing translation programmes.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Assessment criteria in audio describer training: An investigation of learner perceptions in a university interpreting programme in Hong Kong of China

Yan,

Luo

2023

Interpreting and Society

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“…The paths of these two characters cross in the central argument of the paper, described in the fifth part, which, drawing on a semiotic approach to ekphrasis (Krieger 1992;Mitchell 1994) and a close textual analysis of the film (Wildfeuer 2016), discusses the evolution of audio description from being an underdeveloped support for the visually impaired to being recognised as an art of sculpting in words. Moreover, we argue that the evolution of Misako's text in Radiance can be read as reflecting different and evolving conceptualisations of audio description in audiovisual translation theory (Bigotte Chorão and Almeida 2015;Fryer 2016;Orero and Pujol 2007;Thompson 2018), as well as accessibility studies (Fryer and Cavallo 2022;Greco 2019;Romero-Fresco 2019;Udo and Fels 2010). To complete the claim that audio description should be recognised as a new, poetic genre within cinematic arts, we finish this part with a close reading (Lentricchia 2003) of the audio description of the film Radiance.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Unfortunately, audio description, despite being such an interesting case of cinematic ekphrasis as Radiance illustrates, is still an underdeveloped and unrecognised art. There are, however, audio describers (Bigotte Chorão and Almeida 2015;Fryer 2016;Orero and Pujol 2007;Snyder 2008), accessibility scholars working within the framework of accessible film-making (Romero-Fresco 2019), integrated access (Fryer and Cavallo 2022), universal design (Udo and Fels 2010) or poietic design (Greco 2019) and some literary scholars such as Kleege (2018) or Thompson (2018), who recognise the literary potential of audio description. Amelia Cavallo, a blind performer, audio describer and accessibility theorist (Cavallo 2015;Fryer and Cavallo 2022) offers a fascinating practical example of using ekphrasis as a poetic device in the spectacle Sheer, produced by Extant company.…”

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On the art of audio description: Naomi Kawase’sRadiance

Glos,

Toro Franco

2024

Med Humanities

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Audio description improves access to visual culture for people who are unable to fully participate in it due to visual impairments. Because of this direct benefit to disabled people, it is usually defined as an accommodation or inclusion service. Rather than adopting this view, we see disability as a creative force, arguing that it can engender a new dimension of art: audio description as a form of cinematic ekphrasis. This claim is made by drawing on the 2017 movieRadiance, by Japanese director Naomi Kawase. This movie puts audio description in the spotlight and stimulates discussion on this underdeveloped and under-recognised art.Radianceis structured around the process of making the audio description, thus offering good insight into the artistry and main challenges of this process. Between the words of this meditation on the art of audio description, Kawase also challenges the dominant ocular normative narrative on blindness as a deficiency and provokes a discussion on the contribution that blindness—with its different, still culturally unexplored modes of perception—could make to the interpretation of visual arts.Radiancecan thus be treated as an artful argument for the greater recognition of disabled people’s right to participate in cultural life.

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“…Linguistic and narrative aspects of the AD of films have been analyzed through descriptive, comparative and corpus studies [i.e. 5, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21], and empirical methodologies, including eye-tracker tests, have been used to analyze sighted spectators' perception and interpretation of films in the search for strategies that might help prioritize visual information in AD scripts [22,23,24,25]. Some reception studies have also been undertaken, most of them aimed at finding out users' preferences concerning a variety of aspects [26,27,28,29,30].…”

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confidence: 99%

The importance of being relevant?

Braun

2016

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Inspired by the belief that cognitive and pragmatic models of communication and discourse processing offer great potential for the study of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), this paper will review such models and discuss their contribution to conceptualising the three inter-related sub-processes underlying all forms of AVT: the comprehension of the multimodal discourse by the translator; the translation of selected elements of this discourse; and the comprehension of the newly formed multimodal discourse by the target audience. The focus will be on two models, Relevance Theory, which presents the most comprehensive pragmatic model of communication, and Mental Model Theory, which underlies cognitive models of discourse processing. The two approaches will be used to discuss and question common perceptions of AVT as being ‘constrained’ and ‘partial’ translation.

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Chapter 11. Secondary elements in audio description

Cited by 4 publications

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Assessment criteria in audio describer training: An investigation of learner perceptions in a university interpreting programme in Hong Kong of China

Assessment criteria in audio describer training: An investigation of learner perceptions in a university interpreting programme in Hong Kong of China

On the art of audio description: Naomi Kawase’sRadiance

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