[nabs-l] Descriptive videos

[Ashley Bramlett]

but to use serotek, I thought you had to use their screen reader.
Also, do you mean descriptive sound tracks? Are the files real movies? Some 
of us want to view them with others.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Hope Paulos
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:10 AM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Descriptive videos

Serotek has a service called Samnet that you pay for that has as a lot of 
descriptive videos.

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On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:01 PM, "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> 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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