[adp-list] ACB's Audio Description Project--Audio Description Institute (training in audio description)

[Joel Snyder]

AMERICAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND-AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROJECT

 

Greetings Description Lovers!

 

For 2011, the ACB's AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROJECT is narrowing its focus on our
AD Institute-3 days of intensive training in audio description with Joel
Snyder; and its annual awards recognizing leading describers and description
producing organizations with achievement awards in description - Performing
Arts, Museums, Media, Research, International; and Career Achievement - in
addition to the third annual Young Described Film Critic contest!  (The ADP
Conference will be held every other year, stay tuned for news of its 2012
gathering with the ACB Conference and Convention in Louisville, KY.)

 

This email announces the Third Annual ACB-ADP Audio Description Institute:

 

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The American Council of the Blind's Audio Description Project Announces Its

AUDIO DESCRIPTION INSTITUTE - July 14-16, 2011

In Conjunction with ACB's 2011 Annual Conference and Convention

John Ascuaga Nugget Hotel Resort Casino - July 14-15-16, 2011 - Reno, Nevada

 

Audio Description (AD) makes visual images accessible for people who are
blind or have low vision.  Using words that are succinct, vivid, and
imaginative, media describers convey the visual image from television and
film that is not fully accessible to a significant segment of the population
(more than 25 million Americans experience significant vision loss).

 

The signing of the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
has spawned a virtual cottage industry for the development of description
for broadcast television.

BE A PART OF IT!

 

Who Should Attend
- Anyone interested in:

- working as freelance description writers for broadcast television 

- working as a describer in a local performing arts program

- working as a describer for visual art exhibitions

- Experienced audio describers desiring an updated refresher course.

 

NOTE:  freelance writers for broadcast television projects can often be
based anywhere in the world-computer equipment capable of accommodating
high-speed downloads is a must.


Topics Include
1) audio description history and theory 
2) the "Four Fundamentals of Audio Description" C

3) active seeing/visual literacy-developing skills in concentration and
observation
4) the art of "editing" what you see
5) vivid language: "The Visual Made Verbal"T  

6) "Speak the speech, I pray you"--using the spoken word to make meaning



Program

The interactive sessions (limited use of lecture, questions/discussion
throughout, generous use of media, and individual and group writing
exercises) are designed to provide immediate feedback and "give and take,"
allowing for adaptation according to a sense of participants' grasp of the
material.  In addition, experienced users of description are a part of the
Institute's faculty, providing an important perspective throughout the
sessions.  

 

This three-day intensive program will begin at 8:30 am on Thursday, July 14,
2010 and conclude at 4:00 pm on Saturday, July 16, 2010.    

 

Participation is strictly limited.  The Institute will issue certificates to
all successful participants confirming completion of this professional
description training program.          

 

Institute Director

Joel Snyder-- One of the first audio describers, Mr. Snyder began describing
theater events and media in 1981; he is the President of Audio Description
Associates with clients around the world (see www.audiodescribe.com
<http://www.audiodescribe.com/>  for more information) and Director of ACB's
Audio Description Project.  As Director of Described Media for the National
Captioning Institute, he led a staff that produced description for
nationally broadcast films and network series including  "Sesame Street"
broadcasts and DVDs.  Snyder has trained describers in 30 states and the
District of Columbia and he has brought description to ob=ver two dozen
countries.  Internationally, he introduced description techniques in Japan,
Israel, Romania, Spain, Portugal, Lithuania, Denmark, Norway and Finland;
conducted audio description workshops in London, Prague, and St. Petersburg,
Russia; and trained describers for a first-ever audio description program in
Sofia, Bulgaria in August/September 1998.  Most recently, he developed a
team of describers for the second annual Moscow International Disability
Film Festival as the result of intensive seminars conducted in Russia.   In
summer 2008, Snyder presented workshops in Montpellier, Shanghai, Beijing
and provided description for the World Blind Union in Geneva.  Snyder just
returned from training describers in Ireland and speaking on
description/conducting description workshops in India, Malaysia and Hong
Kong.

 

Tuition - $420.00    

 

- A Saturday luncheon will be provided.

 

- Registration for the ACB 2010 Conference and Convention is included.

 

Lodging 

 

You can make reservations by calling the Nugget at 800-648-1177; be sure to
tell the reservationist that you are with the American Council of the Blind,
group code gblind, in order to receive the conference rate and count as a
conference attendee.  Rates are $87 single/double; add $10 per each
additional person in the room. Rates do not include 13.5% tax. 

 

To Apply

Simply request ACB 2010 Conference and Convention registration materials by:

 

- Visiting the ACB website at www.acb.org to apply on-line (as of      );

 

Or 

 

- Contact  Joel Snyder at jsnyder at acb.org -- 202 467-5083.

 

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