[nabs-l] Descriptive videos

[Ashley Bramlett]

Winona,
I hope you found the descriptive videos you needed.
Just wanted to comment as now I have some time.
You don't always need description to follow a movie, particularly if you 
read the book.
But it does help.
I had the same problem in school, both college and high school. We had to do 
this to write a movie review for business writing and we had to analyze a 
film for abnormal psychology to write a psychological diagnosis and I had to 
watch a movie for homework for high school english.
There was more, but those are some highlights.
So, I'm not new to the movie analysis assignment problem.

As I write this, keep in mind that I'm not a movie fan;  I find the plots 
hard to follow often and movies are either too fast paced or slow to enjoy. 
To complicate it, voices can sound similar and you cannot always tell whose 
talking nor can I figure out where the flashbacks are.
I much prefer reading to movies.

Anyway, what I did was have someone describe it. I used family or even if 
needed a paid reader.
I did not waste time finding accessible videos. Winona, sorry to say, but 
described videos are few and far between. We used to have more when we had 
vhs or video cassettes.
Now, dvds have menus that we cannot see to select the options.
Most dvds don't have a descriptive track. I believe some studios produce 
descriptive tracks such as universal studios, but not many companies do.

You can get sound tracks online from blind mice megamall but I haven't tried 
it. I would guess many of these are older videos.
I'd feel bad about downloading something free that one should really pay 
for.

ACB also has a list of described films on their site which you can purchase 
from amazon.
Also, nls does have a limited selection of described videos. They might have 
mostly old vhs recordings, so if you have a old vcr, you might have a better 
chance of getting a described video. My local talking book library used to 
have several vhs movies including the harry potter series. now they only 
have a very small collection, like less than 20 items, which are on dvd.

I think your best bet for a class assignment is getting a classmate or other 
sighted person to help you, rather than limiting yourself to the small 
amount of described videos.
I wish the consumer groups would push for more described movies.

We cannot buy movie downloads and carry them with us like everyone else. For 
instance, from itunes or
netflix. I hope someday we will be able to download more described videos 
and carry them on our ipods or tablets like everyone else.

Ashley
-----Original Message----- 
From: Winona Brackett
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 5:23 PM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Cc: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabs-l] Descriptive videos

Hi ,

I am doing a project for an English assignment and my teacher wants us
to watch a movie and analyze it. (Pick out the different archetypes
such as hero; clown; wise old man; and etc.)

I found a link about descriptive videos.

https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/fr/fr31/4/fr310412.htm

Where can I find descriptive videos? Does the National Library Service
(NLS) carry them?

Thanks,
Winona

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