[blindkid] Fwd: Once a rider, always a rider

[DrV]

Carrie-> You have a (another) natural talent! Beautiful description! I 
imagined my boys on that Harley!

On the more serious side, being able to audiodescribe what is on the screen 
really is an art.
I have seen/heard very good & very poor descriptions.
Most of the professionally done audiodescriptions for movies have made it 
more enjoyable & completely tangible for my kids & when done well the 
narration naturally blends into the movie & is not really all that obvious.
Most of us get pretty good at describing things over time, but I have to 
admit it is nice to kick back & enjoy a movie & then just add in my own 
commentaries like I would with anyone, sighted or not.
I know this gets debated.
For many movies, the added description is not absolutely critical to 
enjoying & getting the gist of the movie, but the added description does 
enhance the experience if done well.
It really would not be all that hard to add the audiodescription track 
option to DVDs & I would be in favor of just requiring it.
I think this videoclip illustrates this very nicely.
Best wishes,
Eric V

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carrie Gilmer" <carrie.gilmer at gmail.com>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Kid Mailing List,(for parents of blind children)'" 
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Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:33
Subject: Re: [blindkid] Fwd: Once a rider, always a rider


>I was thinking as I watched it that without audio description you would 
>miss
> much, well everything as there is no dialougue. A man with dark glasses 
> and
> a cane walks into a obvious motorcycle harley Davidson store with a woman,
> they go down some stairs he holds her arm but also uses his cane and a 
> store
> sales clerk approaches. The woman motions to indicate it is not me here to
> look but him, the store clerk begins to show the man a bike (harley motor
> cycle), he looks at several bikes, walks around using his cane, and uses 
> his
> cane to tap one like someone might stereotypically kick a car tire at a 
> car
> lot when buying. Then he finds one he likes and he rather dramatically 
> hands
> his cane to the store clerk who takes it and the man climbs on the bike, 
> he
> looks very happy about trying it like he found the one he wanted. Then the
> next thing you see is it appears a close up of this man driving the bike
> down the road. Then the camera pans out and he is on the bike on a trailer
> being pulled by a car being driven by the woman who gives some visual
> indication expression of okay he is happy now so I am happy kind of thing.
> Then it shows the back of he man wearing a harley leather jacket with the
> words "born to be blind" with two canes crossed like an X and then there 
> is
> the words: Lotto millionaires are not like ordinary millionaires.
>
> Like I said it is not perfect...but it is not bad unless I am missing
> something.
>
>
>
> Carrie Gilmer, President
> National Organization of Parents of Blind Children
> A Division of the National Federation of the Blind
> NFB National Center: 410-659-9314
> Home Phone: 763-784-8590
> carrie.gilmer at gmail.com
> www.nfb.org/nopbc
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindkid-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of trising at sbcglobal.net
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blindkid] Fwd: Once a rider, always a rider
>
> I was thinking the same thing. I did not get it.
>
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