‘What Should I Say?’ Tentative Criteria to Prioritize Information in the Audio Description of Film Characters

Fresno, Nazaret; Castella, J.; Vilageliú, Olga Soler

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-56917-2_8

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“…In addition, there is evidence of the relation between evaluative stances and the highlight of narrative elements. This seems to confirm the findings of Fresno et al (2016), who point out that the most "semantic meanings" in audio description are the most memorized, and Vercauteren and Remael (2014) who defend that ADs with symbolic function must be more robust interpretatively. In this sense, we understand that probably, and consciously or not, the AD script analyzed joins narrative elements to appraisal in order to emphasize them.…”

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confidence: 83%

relation between evaluative stances and narratological elements in an audio description script for theatre

Abud¹,

Araújo²

2020

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The question of neutrality in audio description (AD) has been discussed by professionals and researchers. Following several studies started by Praxedes Filho and Magalhães (2013, 2015), this article analyzes if evaluative stances identified via the Appraisal System (AS) in the AD script of the play Miralu and the Magic Telescope (Miralu e a Luneta Encantada) can be related to narratological elements. For this purpose, we have adopted a corpus-based methodology, using categories of AS, up to the second level of delicacy, as well as narratological ones based on Jiménez Hurtado (2010) and Pavis (2011, 2015). As a result, we have found 166 co-occurrences of evaluative stances and narratological elements, among which there are 73 (43,98%) associated to gesture, 42 (25,30%) to costume and 40 (24,10%) to lighting descriptions. These findings suggest that these co-occurrences are probably not coincidental, taking into consideration that other studies have already pointed out the importance of subjective description in the AD scripts.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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relation between evaluative stances and narratological elements in an audio description script for theatre

Abud¹,

Araújo²

2020

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“…Characters are an "essential part of a film narrative", as stated by Mazur (2015) in the ADLAB guidelines. Various authors have analysed the audio description of characters (Fresno, 2012;Fresno et al, 2016), sometimes focusing on facial expressions (Vercauteren and Orero, 2013;Mazur, 2014), and guidelines generally give specific sections on how to approach their audio description (Rai et al, 2010). Physical appearance is not always viewed as the most relevant aspect when describing characters, as they sometimes can define themselves more easily through their actions and words.…”

Section: Describing Charactersmentioning

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One short film, different audio descriptions. Analysing the language of audio descriptions created by students and professionals

Matamala

2018

Onomázein

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One short film, different audio descriptions. Analysing the language of audio descriptions created by students and professionals 186 Audio description is an access service that translates visuals into words which are then received auditorily by end users. This article aims to compare audio descriptions created by professionals and by students in Spanish, in order to identify commonalities and divergences, if any. Part of the VIW corpus is used to that end. Although limited in size, the VIW corpus is the first open-access multilingual multimodal corpus of audio descriptions, including various audio descriptions of the same visual input, namely the short film "What happens while". The analysis presented in this paper focuses on quantitative data such as the number of words, number of AD units and sentences, as well as on the distribution of word classes. Where relevant, data are compared to general language corpora so as to highlight the specificities of the language of audio description. The paper also compares the most frequent words used by both groups, and a selection of semantic classes automatically retrieved is analysed. This article provides new insights into the language of audio description and shows the research potential of the VIW corpus.

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“…Nonetheless, and in light of what was outlined above, interesting avenues for further research open up, such as the comparison of existing ADs to see to what extent different guidelines lead to different types of AD, and/or the testing of different types of ADbased on different AD strategiesto gauge audience preferences and mental effort. Indeed, recent research (Fresno, N., Castellà, J., & Soler Vilageliu, O., 2014;Fresno, N., Castellà, J., & Soler Vilageliu, O., 2016) seems to indicate that different AD strategies lead to a different mental workload induced in the audience, and experimental studies testing different types of AD could shed some initial light on these hypotheses. The results from these tests can then be used to train audio describers and hence further improve AD both on a qualitative and quantitative level.…”

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When East Meets West: A Comparison of Audio Description Guidelines in China and Europe

Carroggio

Vercauteren

2020

Hikma

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Despite China being the country with most disabled people in the world, the provision of media accessibility services and their academic study are still at a crawling stage. The present study departed from two objectives: to present a sample of three Chinese AD guidelines that mainly serve for training purposes, and to compare the Chinese situation in terms of guidelines to that of Europe, to see if there are any relevant differences to point out and any mutual lessons to be learnt. Our results show there are a lot of general similarities between the different Chinese and European guidelines and that the main difference is the different approach to objective vs. subjective description.

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‘What Should I Say?’ Tentative Criteria to Prioritize Information in the Audio Description of Film Characters

Cited by 11 publications

References 36 publications

relation between evaluative stances and narratological elements in an audio description script for theatre

relation between evaluative stances and narratological elements in an audio description script for theatre

One short film, different audio descriptions. Analysing the language of audio descriptions created by students and professionals

When East Meets West: A Comparison of Audio Description Guidelines in China and Europe

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