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Course:FLM027
CRN#: 35355
Takoma Park/
Silver Spring Campus
just outside Washington, DC
Mon., Wed.
7:00 pm-9:15 pm
February 14-May 2, 2011
20 Sessions--certificate of completion awarded at conclusion
Cost:  $516 +
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INSTRUCTOR:

One of the first audio describers, Joel Snyder began describing theater events and
media in 1981. In addition to his ongoing work in these genres (Kennedy Center, 
Arena Stage, "Sesame Street," DVDs and feature films), each year he develops audio
described tours for major museums throughout the United States including the Smithsonian
Institution, the Getty, the Albright-Knox, the National Aquarium, and several State
museums and myriad National Park and Forest Service exhibit centers.

He has introduced audio description/conducted audio description workshops in 30 
states and D.C. and over 25 countries; in summer 2008, Snyder presented workshops
in Montpellier, Shanghai, Beijing and provided description for the World Blind Union
in Geneva. Most recently, he trained describers in Brazil and presented papers on
description in Italy at the International Conference on the Arts & Society and in
Spain at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (where he is a Ph.D. candidate, expected
2010).
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Audio Description Course - Spring 2011
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Dear Description Enthusiast:
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Study Audio Description
at Montgomery College this Spring!

Audio Description is a literary art form.  It's a type of poetry--a haiku.  It provides
a verbal version of the visual--the visual is made verbal, and aural, and oral.

Using words that are succinct, vivid, and imaginative, describers convey the visual
image from television and film that is not fully accessible to a significant segment
of the population * and not fully realized by the rest of us--the rest of us, sighted
folks who see but who may not observe.  Audio describers provide services in various
multi-media settings, including theater, television, video, film, exhibits, museums,
and educational venues--but also at circuses, rodeos, ice skating exhibitions and
myriad sports events.

* The American Foundation for the Blind now estimates that over 25 million Americans
are blind or have trouble seeing even with correction.

For broadcast television, on film and videotape and on DVDs, AD enhances the regular
program audio, precisely timed to occur only during the lapses between dialogue.
  Until June of this 2009, description was accessed on televised programs in the
 United States via a Secondary Audio Program channel; now description audio is one
of several additional audio tracks available digitally.

This course is particularly timely: President Obama recently signed into law a mandate
for description on broadcast television beginning late in 2011.  Thus, the need 
for professionally trained describers will increase dramatically throughout 2011.

The sessions will introduce participants to the principles of description, how to
produce quality description, and the importance of close communication with the 
"end users"-people who are blind or have low vision and all people who support this
innovative use of technology to provide greater media access.

Do join us this Spring -- I look forward to seeing you!

Joel Snyder

President

Audio Description Associates, LLC

"The Visual Is Made Verbal"  tm

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