Re-fashioning fashion: an exploratory study of a live audio-described fashion show

JP Udo, DI Fels - Universal Access in the Information Society, 2010 - Springer
JP Udo, DI Fels
Universal Access in the Information Society, 2010Springer
This paper presents a process and its analysis for live audio description of a fashion show
that contained only music and no dialogue. The findings of this work suggest that using a
content expert with a process that combines conventional audio-description techniques with
colour commentary techniques to allow emotion and excitement, as well as description of
the important visual elements, is enjoyable and entertaining for blind, low-vision and sighted
audiences. Following the proposed process, about 60% of the content of the live show could …
Abstract
This paper presents a process and its analysis for live audio description of a fashion show that contained only music and no dialogue. The findings of this work suggest that using a content expert with a process that combines conventional audio-description techniques with colour commentary techniques to allow emotion and excitement, as well as description of the important visual elements, is enjoyable and entertaining for blind, low-vision and sighted audiences. Following the proposed process, about 60% of the content of the live show could be described in a timely manner. Finally, it was found that the describer added about three times as many descriptions from a prepared script as were omitted.
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