Louise Fryer is a teaching fellow at University College London and describes for the National Theatre of Great Britain and VocalEyes. For many years, she presented Afternoon on 3, Live in Concert and Proms for BBC Radio 3.

Contents

List of Tables

How to Use This Book

Acknowledgements

Glossary and List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1.Introducing Audio Description?

Chapter 2. A Brief history, Legislation and Guidelines

Chapter 3. Putting the Audio into Audio Description

Chapter 4. The Audience for Audio Description

Chapter 5. Audio Description Skills: Writing

Chapter 6 Audio Description Skills: Script preparation

Chapter 7 Audio Description Skills: Delivery

Chapter 8 Beyond the Basics: AD by genre

Chapter 9 Beyond the Basics: Text on Screen

Chapter 10. Beyond the Basics: Accessible film-making and Describing Camerawork

Chapter 11 AD and Censorship

Chapter 12 Audio introductions

Chapter 13 Contentious Issues and Future Directions in AD

Chapter 14 Afterword

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the skills needed for the effective translation of images into words for the blind and partially-sighted. Covering the key genres of audio description and supplemented with exercises and discussion points throughout, this is the essential textbook for all students and translators involved in the practice of audio description. Accompanying film clips are also available on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal: http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/translationstudies/.