Free Audio Described cinema passes
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| 12:01 UK time, Friday, 28 April 2006
are giving away free stuff.
If you fill out their fully accessible , you could win one of 10 sets of two cinema passes to any Vue, Odeon or UCI cinema.
It only takes a minute, and information gathered will be used to promote and spread awareness of Audio Description in the cinema. This service provides a running commentary on the visual aspects of a film. You pick up a headset at the box office and only you will hear it. Magic!!
Any visually impaired person I know who's tried it says that it has changed the way they watch movies for ever, and greatly increased their enjoyment and awareness of what is happening on screen.
So click to fill the survey out, and it may not just be your carer who gets to go free.
For more information on all aspects of Audio Description in the UK, whether it be in the cinema, on TV or at the theatre or an event, please check out the recently updated Ouch Guide to Audio Description.
Comments
There isn't enough audio description around!
For anyone who doesn't know, mainstream DVDs bought through shops and at video rental stores sometimes have Audio Description for people who can't se the screen well. The latest good ones include: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Narnia film. Not exactly hardcore drama but better than nothing. Closer is also described as is Garden State. Was most distressed to see that The Constant Gardener doesn't have AD on it.
Anyone else any recommendations for AD films or disks or plays?
I discovered quite by accident that the Brokeback Mountain DVD has AD on it. I haven't watched it with AD yet, so can't comment. But I was very pleased to discover it was there. Doesn't the RNIB (or is it the RNLI?) have a list of audio-described DVDs and videos?
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