This website is designed to be associated with the publication of THE VISUAL MADE VERBAL: A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description by Joel Snyder, PhD. The site provides dozens of media excerpts that can assist the prospective describer as he/she develops his/her skills.
Dr. Snyder is the President of Audio Description Associates, LLC, and Director of American Council of the Blind’s Audio Description Project; he began work in audio description in 1981 and has trained describers/introduced description throughout the United States and in more than 30 countries.
INDEX OF WEBSITE PRACTICA:
1- Excerpt from 1991 film Proof
2- Fiorello LaGuardia reading comics over the radio—courtesy, City of New York, NY
3- Theater Without Limits by Access Theater
4- Sesame Street excerpt Elmo’s World
5- FOX-TV feature on developing film description
6- Universal Design: Museum Accessibility
7- Awareness Test
8- Holmes #1
9- Holmes #2
10- The Color of Paradise – no video, without AD
11- The Color of Paradise – no video, with AD
12- The Color of Paradise – with video, with AD
13- The Empire Strikes Back – without AD
14- The Empire Strikes Back – with AD
15- Hercule Poirot –without AD (from an episode of “Mystery” on PBS)
16- Hercule Poirot –with AD (description created by WGBH)
17- Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide to Halloween – without AD
18- Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide to Halloween – with AD
19- Pretty Woman – without AD
20- Pretty Woman – with AD (description created by WGBH)
21- Pretty Woman – with AD (description created by U.K.’s Royal National Institute of the Blind)
22- Popeye cartoon “Fright to the Finish” – without AD
23- Popeye cartoon “Fright to the Finish” – with AD
24- Two- The Miracle Worker (the breakfast scene) – without AD
25- The Miracle Worker (the breakfast scene) – with AD
26- The Shining – without AD
27- The Shining – with AD
28- Storm Reading – with AD
29- “Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag That Inspired the National Anthem” – audio only
30- Saturday Night Fever Travolta clip, audio only
31- Saturday Night Fever “Hispanic” clip, audio only
32- Saturday Night Fever Travolta clip, with video and audio
33- Saturday Night Fever “Hispanic” clip, with video and audio
34- Charlie Chaplin
35- One Flight Over The Cuckoo’s Nest-Ratched—©1975 The Saul Zaentz Company. All Rights Reserved.
36- One Flight Over The Cuckoo’s Nest-Nicholson—©1975 The Saul Zaentz Company. All Rights Reserved.
37- My Fair Lady-1
38- My Fair Lady-2
39- Quill-cane
40- Quill-dog
41- “Ministry of Silly Walks”, Monty Python
42- excerpt from “Dust”, AXIS Dance Company, choreography by Victoria Marks – with AD
43- ILO – “Count Us In” without AD
44- ILO – “Count Us” In with AD
45- KCCI News report on AD training, Des Moines, Iowa
46- “Literal Video” – “Total Eclipse of the Heart”
47- Transcript of An Audio Described Script (full movie): Night of the Living Dead
48- Night of the Living Dead (full movie) without audio description
49- Conference Proceedings from The Audio Description Project Conference of the American Council of the Blind (July 12-14, 2010, Phoenix, AZ)
50- Conference Proceedings from The Audio Description Project Conference of the American Council of the Blind (July 6-8, 2009, Orlando, FL)
51- Transcript of Conference Proceedings from The International Conference on Audio Description (March 23-24, 2002, Washington, DC)
52- Transcript of Conference Proceedings from The International Conference on Audio Description (June 15-17, 1995, Washington, DC)