Abstract
As more and more countries start to provide audio description services for a growing range of products and events, research into this new discipline is growing and diversifying as well. Two questions that seem to be at the heart of much of this research focus on what should be described and how this should be done, in other words on content selection and formulation of the description. The present article looks at the first of these two questions and approaches it from a narratological point of view. After a general discussion of the use of narratology for audio description, the focus will shift to one particular constituent of narrative, namely time. The different temporal aspects will be discussed in greater detail, after which a strategy for the audio description of time in film will be proposed.
Highlights
This article is part of the European Project audio description (AD) LABLifelong Access for the Blind with reference no
As audio description (AD) as an academic discipline is starting to come of age, research in the field begins to develop in different directions
Part one considers the usefulness of narratology for selecting relevant information to be audio described; part two will focus on one particular narrative building block, namely ‘time’, and looks at how describers can go about describing this structuring element from a narratological point of view
Summary
Lifelong Access for the Blind with reference no. Vercauteren, Gert d’un point de vue narratologique. Après une discussion générale sur l’utilité de la narratologie à des fins d’audio description, l’accent sera mis sur un composant particulier de la narration: le temps. Les différents aspects temporels seront examinés plus en détails et une stratégie d’audio description du temps pour le cinéma sera proposée. Manuscript received on July 15, 2011; Definitely accepted on November 15, 2011
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