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			Sample FIlm and VIdeo Projects Click the play button below each black movie "screen" to play. The movies play smoothly when fully downloaded. Ribbon of Sand National Park Service • Cape Lookout National Seashore • Excerpt from the 30-minute film with recorded audio description. Comment: This single excerpt, beginning with the start of the film, shows the typical flow of voices between audio description, female narrator and male narrator. To accommodate changes of view, the audio description often takes advantage of the soundtrack's silence immediately before the new scene appears. Black Friday: The Johnstown Flood of 1889 National Park Service • Johnstown Flood National Memorial • Excerpts from the working copy of the 30-minute film with recorded audio description. Comment: Although audio description should ideally match the onscreen image to best serve people with low vision, this film demonstrates how description may sometimes be placed to create the best sense of rapidly changing visual content. These excerpts also show choices made when there is inadequate time to describe everything. The somber quality and pacing of the film sets the tone and rhythm of the description and its narration.   The Ecology of Kelp Forests Described and Captioned Media Program Funded by the U.S. Department of Education • Excerpts from the educational film for students in grades 5-12. Comment: These two excerpts show the techniques of shifting the reading of cedits, descibing rapidly changing visuals, anticipating the next image, and employing vivid language. Living with Jim Crow Northern Light Productions for National Park Service Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site • Excerpts from the working copy of the 7-minute film without recorded audio description. Matching excerpts from the script appear below. (Black screen. Speak on start of music.) Color video interviews with African American and white people today. We often hear their voices while seeing black and white film and photos from the 1950s. Black and white film of signs "For Colored Only," "White Only," "Colored Waiting Room." Title: "Living with Jim Crow." Sybil Jordan Hampton. (" … and I knew when I got on the bus to march my little self right to the back.") Jerry Butler. --- --- --- --- --- --- ("And people tried to keep this warm blanket around you and protect you from that.") Young African American children with balloons. ("Walk up and put an arm around your shoulder, and tell you, 'Boy, you shape up.'" African American children in school. A downtown street. --- --- --- --- --- --- ("And it's very interesting because they really saw the desegregation of schools as the first stone being pulled out of the wall of segregation--and the house of Jim Crow would come down.'") White hands remove sign: "White forward, colored rear." --end-- Comment: Although audio description should ideally never intrude on a film's dialogue or narration, this film, with its essentially constant soundtrack of voices, demonstrates how essential description may sometimes have to overlap the first word or two of the next speaker. These excerpts also show choices made when there is inadequate time to describe everything.   Audio Description Solutions 717.624.4860 • 717.624.4490 fax 110 Lincoln Way West New Oxford, PA 17350-1314 Click to send an e-mail inquiry: info@AudioDescriptionSolutions.com
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