Louise Fryer

An Introduction to Audio Description

A practical guide

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the skills needed for the effective translation of images into words for the blind and partially-sighted. Covering the key genres of audio description and supplemented with exercises and discussion points throughout, this is the essential textbook for all students and translators involved in the practice of audio description. Accompanying film clips are also available on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/translationstudies/.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781138848153
• ISBN-10: 1138848158
• Artikelnr.: 57039834

Autorenporträt

Louise Fryer is a teaching fellow at University College London and describes for the National Theatre of Great Britain and VocalEyes. For many years, she presented Afternoon on 3, Live in Concert and Proms for BBC Radio 3.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Tables
How to Use This Book
Acknowledgements
Glossary and List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1.Introducing Audio Description?
Chapter 2. A Brief history, Legislation and Guidelines
Chapter 3. Putting the Audio into Audio Description
Chapter 4. The Audience for Audio Description
Chapter 5. Audio Description Skills: Writing
Chapter 6 Audio Description Skills: Script preparation
Chapter 7 Audio Description Skills: Delivery
Chapter 8 Beyond the Basics: AD by genre
Chapter 9 Beyond the Basics: Text on Screen
Chapter 10. Beyond the Basics: Accessible film-making and Describing
Camerawork
Chapter 11 AD and Censorship
Chapter 12 Audio introductions
Chapter 13 Contentious Issues and Future Directions in AD
Chapter 14 Afterword
Appendix 1
Appendix 2