[Art_beyond_sight_advocacy] ACB Audio Description Project 2014 Conference--REGISTER NOW!

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JOIN US!

2014 Audio Description Project (ADP) Conference

An Initiative of the American Council of the Blind (ACB)

- "AUDIO DESCRIPTION: *EYE* HEAR THE DIFFERENCE!" -

Riviera Casino and Hotel - July 13-15, 2014 - Las Vegas, NV

Schedule and Speakers subject to change

Day I - Sunday, July 13, 2014  

  1:00 pm-1:30 pm   Welcome/Introduction to the ADP -- 

Kim Charlson, President, American Council of the Blind

Dan Spoone, Chair, ADP Committee

Joel Snyder, Director, ADP

                                         Jo-Lynn Bailey Page, Chair, ADP
Conference Sub-Committee

  1:30 pm-2:30 pm   Getting the Most Out of the ADP Website: How to Access
Audio Described TV, Movies, and Videos -- Fred Brack, ADP Webmaster, and
Kathy Brack, AD Consumer

  2:30 pm-3:30 pm   Description and Literacy -- Programs like the Described
and Captioned Media Program and several published papers have demonstrated
how description can build literacy.  Joel Snyder will chair this discussion
with panelists including Jason Stark of the DCMP, Judy Dixon of the National
Library Service, Hillary Kleck, mother of a blind 9-year-old and Mary Ann
Siller, Dallas-based educator working with blind children.

  3:30 pm-4:00 pm   break  

  4:00 pm-4:30 pm   Legislative Update -- A review of the current status of
the mandate for broadcast description; broadcast description in the digital
era and the FCC; and the end of Department of Education funding for
broadcast description.  Eric Bridges, Director of External Relations and
Policy, ACB; Karen Peltz Strauss, Deputy Chief, Consumer and Governmental
Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission (Ms. Strauss will appear
on video)

  4:30 pm-5:30 pm   Advocacy for Audio Description / Boosting Description
for Media - How can description become more "visible"?  How can we most
effectively advocate for description, particularly in various media formats,
e.g., television, film, the web, DVDs and smartphones.  Dr. Josh Miele of
the Smith-Kettlewell Video Description Research and Development Center will
discuss developments with Simon Padro, Compass Interactive, developer of
Parlamo; Chelsea Pancho, Deluxe Digital Media; Robert Kingett, audio
description critic and advocate, and Hillary Kleck, passionate advocate for
description and educational media.

  5:30 pm-6:30 pm   Mentoring Meet-Up / reception -- Chaired by Susan Glass.
This year, the ACB Audio Description Project is offering  its inaugural
"mentorship" program: sighted attendees of the Audio Description Project
Conference will be paired with a blind or visually impaired mentor.  The
best describers develop an understanding of  the audience for whom they are
providing a critical service.  What better opportunity for such interaction
than at the ACB Conference and Convention, where some 1500 blind people will
likely be present?  (Mornings on Monday and Tuesday, July 14  and 15 are
kept open for attendance at ACB Convention plenary sessions.)

At this brief meet-and-greet session, ADP Conference attendees will have the
opportunity to meet and be mentored by an ACB member/description enthusiast
and join him/her for the opening plenary session of the ACB Conference and
Convention AND at least two other activities during the sessions over the
next two mornings-e.g., touring the exhibit hall together, attending an
affiliate meeting or an additional ACB general session, taking a walk,
eating a meal together, or watching an audio described film.  We hope that
these interactions will give you lots of practical experience interacting
with a blind person-and you may forge a new friendship and increase
understanding between the sighted and the blind communities.

Dinner on your own

Day II - Monday, July 14, 2014

  1:30 pm-2:30 pm   Broadcast Description - Who creates description for
broadcast television?  Are there quality standards?  Can description
producers work with cable and satellite companies to make it easier for
consumers to access description?  Rick Boggs of Audio Eyes will chair this
session with Tom Wlodkowski, Comcast; Jeremy Fisher of Caption Max; and
special guest Bernd Benecke of Bayerischer Rundfunk (German television),
author of Audio Description As Partial Translation - Model and Method.

  2:30 pm-3:30 pm   The Description Profession - How and where do audio
describers become employed, especially for film and TV, but also for museums
or performing arts?  What about opportunities for AD consumers to contribute
to the process?  Joyce Adams, long-time describer and supervisor of
description for nationally broadcast television and feature films, with
panelists Rick Jacobson and Teri Grossman, freelance describers, and Chris
Snyder, audio editor.  

  3:30 pm-4:00 pm   break

  4:00 pm-4:45 pm   Audio Description in Spanish - 53 million people of
Hispanic descent constitute 17% of the population of the United States.  How
is audio description serving Hispanics who are blind or have low vision?
Maria Diaz of DiCapta (formerly Closed Caption Latina) will present an
overview of Spanish audio description availability in the United States.

  4:45 pm-5:45 pm   Knowing Your Audience-Performing Arts Description  It
all began with the performing arts.  What are the most recent advances?
What can be done to entice more consumers of the service?  Joel Snyder, ADP
director, will chair this session with Jesse Minkert, Arts and Visually
Impaired Audiences (AVIA) in Seattle (via Skype); Steph Kirkland of Vocal
Eye in Canada; and Bonnie Barlow, Denver-based freelance describer with 22
years of experience describing productions at the Denver Center for the
Preforming Arts.

  5:45 pm-6:30 pm   Seeing the Art-Visual Art/Museum Description  Elisabeth
Axel of Art Beyond

Sight will present an overview of the top programs for visual art
description in the United States; the perspective from abroad will be
presented by Dr. Joselia Neves a published author on museum description in
Portugal, Michele Hartley of the National Park Service, and Martin Wilde,
Chicago-based freelance describer with experience describing exhibits.  

Dinner on your own

7:00 pm-8:15 pm     Field Trip-Illusions  with audio description starring
Jan Rouven-Unbelievable Magic! Undeniable Mystery!--at the Riviera Hotel!
(Tickets are not included in the ADP Conference registration fee.)     

8:30 pm                   SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY- Bernd Benecke of Bayerischer
Rundfunk (German television), and author of Audio Description As Partial
Translation - Model and Method, will speak on "Creating AD: How to Work with
the Audio-Description-Evolution-Model (ADEM).  Before writing an AD script,
describers will normally analyze the source material. This should include
the following aspects:  What is the anticipated audience? Is it for children
with a smaller image memory than grown-ups?  What was the describer's
personal experience when watching the material?  What does he or she want
the blind and vision-impaired audience to experience when listening to the
AD?  And what information is already given in the original soundtrack and
thus can be left out in the AD?  Or is there anything in the soundtrack that
causes difficulty for the describer, e.g., the sound in a scene does not
match the image?  This presentation will take an example from daily media
description work and demonstrate how ADEM can help in deciding what, how and
when to describe.

Day III - Tuesday, July 15, 2014

  1:00 pm-2:30 pm   Luncheon with guest speaker - Dr. Deborah Fels-Dr. Fels
is an associate professor in the School of Information Technology Management
at Ryerson University in Toronto. She has a special research interest in
access to computing systems for people with disabilities.  One of her
various project involving audio description includes the development of
described episodes of Odd Job Jack, an animation series produced for the
Comedy Network. The descriptions for this animation are unique in that they
have first-person narrative descriptions synchronized with non-verbal sounds
in addition to the silenced-only portions as well as user-controlled
extended descriptions.  Dr. Fels was the 2013 recipient of the ADP's Dr.
Margaret Pfanstiehl Memorial Achievement Award in Audio Description,
Research and Development.

  2:30 pm-3:30 pm   ACB/ADP Awards - Presented by Chris Gray, Chair, ADP
Awards

Committee, former President, ACB

                               - "Young Described Film Critic of the Year"
Awards Presentation

                               - Achievement in Audio Description - Media 

                               - Achievement in Audio Description -
Performing Arts 

                               - Achievement in Audio Description - Museums 

                               - Achievement in Audio Description -
International

                               - Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl Memorial
Achievement Award in Audio Description - Research and Development

                               - Barry Levine Memorial Award for Career
Achievement in Audio Description

  3:30 pm-4:00 pm   break

  4:00 pm-5:00 pm   The Audio Description Consumer -- Audio description is
first and foremost in service to the needs of people who are blind or have
low vision.  Kim Charlson, ACB's President will chair this discussion with
panelists and audio description enthusiasts Dan Spoone, Susan Glass, Satauna
Howery, and Kathy Brack as well as comment from the Conference's mentors and
mentees (see the "Mentoring Meet-Up session described above).

  5:00 pm-6:00 pm   Open Sharing / Discussion

  6:00 pm                 Adjourn

  6:30 pm-7:30 pm   Joel Snyder, ADP Director and President of Audio
Description Associates, LLC, will be available to discuss and sign copies of
his new publication (with associated website) The Visual Made Verbal: A
Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of
Audio Description.  

HOW TO JOIN US:

Registration Fee - $175.00    

- A Tuesday, July 15 luncheon will be provided.  Please contact
jsnyder at acb.org
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20Files\Content.Outlook\ME92NPDN\jsnyder at acb.org>  concerning any special
dietary requirements.

- Registration for the ACB 2014 Conference and Convention is included.

NOTE:  Individuals who register for the ADP Conference (July 13-15) as well
as the AD Institute training sessions (July 16-18-tuition: $450) qualify for
a special discounted rate:  $550.00   For information regarding the AD
Institute, visit www.acb.org/adp.

Lodging 

You can make reservations for your stay at the Riviera Hotel and Casino via
phone or online.  Room rates are $87 plus tax per night (single or double).
Make reservations by phone by calling (800) 634-6753, make sure to mention
you are with the ACB convention. You can also make reservations online at:
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To Register

On-line, visit  http://adpregister.acb.org/. 

For questions or additional information, contact Joel Snyder at
jsnyder at acb.org -- 202 467-5083 or 301 920-0218.

JOEL SNYDER, Ph.D.

Author of The Visual Made Verbal: A Comprehensive Training Manual and

Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description -

get your copy at thevisualmadeverbal.net

President, Audio Description Associates, LLC   

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6502 Westmoreland Avenue, Takoma Park, MD  20912

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920-0218

Cell:  301 452-1898  --  Fax: 208 445-0079

For more information about audio description, please visit: 

 <http://www.audiodescribe.com/> www.audiodescribe.com   

Director, Audio Description Project

American Council of the Blind

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