[nabs-l] Descriptive videos

[Hope Paulos]

I believe their MP3 files. No, you  don't have to use the screen reader in order to use the Samnet service you can purchase the service as a standalone.

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On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:16 AM, "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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> -----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.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 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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