[Athen] Making Foreign Films Accessible

[Rovner, Amy]

3Play Media has a newly launched Audio Description service.  I’m afraid I don’t know any more about it – such as cost, quality, etc. but if you have funding this might be the fastest way to accommodate the student.

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Amy

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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Gaeir Dietrich
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:10 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Making Foreign Films Accessible

No magic, but honestly sometimes the easy button is someone sitting next to the student reading subtitles and providing audio description.

You might check the video description web site hosted by Smith Kettlewell:
http://www.vdrdc.org/resources

Unfortunately, I believe the YouDescribe tool might still be down.
Gaeir


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On Jul 11, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Jennifer McDowell <jmcdowell at salemstate.edu<mailto:jmcdowell at salemstate.edu>> wrote:
Hello everyone!

We have a student who is blind taking a French Cinema class this coming fall semester. We just received the video list from the professor and have been looking them up to see what we are looking at as far as accessibility goes. Clearly, the outlook is bleak. ;) There are 11 films total, all are in French with English subtitles available. Two are available dubbed in English, and one, by Sony, MAY have AD, but probably not. ;)

Our office is working with the student and professor, trying to brainstorm the best way to provide access to the student. I have reached out to all of the US production companies to see if they have anything (transcripts, dubbing, AD) available. We are also leaning toward making MP3 recordings of us reading the subtitles that the student can listen to [more or less] in time while the class is watching the movie.

Does anyone else have any ideas? Or have you had a similar situation and had success with a certain method? Any magic software I don’t know about that will do all of this for me? ;)

Honestly, any thoughts, ideas, suggestions, etc. would be MUCH appreciated. Thank you!

Jenny


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