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Date: | Sun, 26 Jul 1998 17:50:40 -0500 |
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John,
But with the video, years from now, would it be neat to have???At 10:28 AM
7/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
> I know this response is a bit late, but I've ben away for quite
some time
>and am just getting back.
>
> Back in February I was fortunate to have an opportunity to see the
movie
>Titanic with audio description. I saw the movie in December without audio
>description so I can tell you all with no lack of confidence that I missed
>an enormous amount of important detail that the audio description was able
>to provide! About 15 blind and visually impaired people got to see this
>show when I did, and every one of us was very impressed!
>
> In June I got married. We had a big wedding with about 195
guests. My
>wife and I are both blind. It is likely that, between the two of us, we
>missed a great deal of what was going on in the room. Frankly, I'm not
>unhappy about this in the slightest. We had a photographer, videographer,
>DJ, waiters and all sorts of other people around us. The idea of having
>someone else around to describe the action in the room is just more then I
>can stand! In the first place it would have been total information
>overload. In the second place it would have detracted from the enjoyment of
>the other sensory inputs. In the third place it would have inappropriately
>placed a third figure in the spotlight (my wife, me and a describer).
>
> This article is the first I've heard of audio description on
reality. It
>is also the first I've heard of an audio describer believing that
>descriptions of reality were part of her job.
>
> I think that blind people have been dealing with reality without
audio
>description quite nicely and, while it might be beneficial in certain
>instances, it is certainly not the proposed task of audio description
>services to follow blind people around describing everything they pass. If
>I want audio description at a sports event I'll bring my radio. Other then
>this (or some other similar event) I can't imagine actually wanting
>description!
>
>John
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