Audio description: One picture – a thousand words or a thousand pictures – one word?
Audio description is a technique for verbalizing the visual in multimedia content.
Audio Description provides access to the visual elements – action, costumes, settings, gestures, facial expressions and other visually engaging images – of television/film, museum exhibitions, theater and a variety of events.
All people can appreciate the added detail and vivid highlights made possible through the effective use of Audio Description. For example, while Audio Description makes the images in children’s books more accessible to kids who have low vision or are blind, the words a describer uses helps develop sophisticated language skills for all children.
A picture may be worth a thousand words. But Audio Description Associates’ trained writers and voice talents use words with precision to conjure vivid and lasting images. The result: people who are vision impaired can more fully enjoy cultural events of every kind, and those experiences are enhanced for every participant.
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- Date: 25 Nov 2024
- Time: 12:00 PM to 02:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+01:00) Skopje
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- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies,
- Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
- Skopje, Macedonia
- Macedonia
Speakers
Joel Snyder
Audio description: One picture – a thousand words or a thousand pictures – one word?
Biography:
President, Audio Description Associates, LLC
Founder/Senior Consultant, Audio Description Project, American Council of the Blind
https://adp.acb.org
- Author of The Visual Made Verbal: A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description
- Fulbright Scholar 2019 – For teaching in Audio Description in Athens, Greece with workshops in Malta and Ukraine
- Winner of the 2015 American Foundation for the Blind Access Award
- Winner of the 2014 Career Achievement Award in Audio Description of the American Council of the Blind
- Winner of the 2014 Vernon Henley Media Award for promoting and furthering the availability of audio description
One of the first audio describers, Joel Snyder, Ph.D. is a true pioneer in the audio description field. He began describing theater events and media in 1981. A member of the Actors’ Equity Association, the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, and the Screen Actors Guild, and a 20-year veteran of work as an arts specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts, he is perhaps best known internationally as one of the first “audio describers” at the world’s first audio description service (c. 1981).
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Address:Dr Joel Snyder, Audio Description Associates, , United States
