An Introduction to Audio Description - Louise (UCL Fryer - Bog

This is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration for the blind and partially-sighted. Providing essential background to the area, the audience, legislation and how to get started, this book covers the key skills of writing, script preparation and delivery and explores the key genres of audio description from feature films to multimedia events and touch tours in museums. Supplemented with exercises and discussion points throughout, a glossary and film clips on the Routledge Translation Studies portal, this is the essential textbook for all students and translators involved in the practice of audio description.