Browsing by Subject "Audio description"

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    Analysing the AD process. Creativity, accuracy and experience
    (ZHAW, 2020-01) Ramos Caro, Marina; Rojo López, Ana María; Traducción e Interpretación
    The study of audio description (AD) has flourished over the last decade to become a broad research area in its own right. However, experimental research on the processes involved in the creation of AD is still scarce. More specifically, the study of describers’ psychological traits has so far been a rather unexplored area in the field. The present study focuses on creativity as one of the main professional competencies required for AD. In order to study the relationship between creativity, accuracy and experience, we recruited 10 professional describers and measured their creativity through a validated creativity test. They were then asked to create AD scripts for four highly poetic scenes. Their performance was analysed in terms of the accuracy and subjectivity of the texts. Our results show that more experienced describers are more creative, less subjective and more accurate when creating their descriptions.
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    Boundary-crossing events in audio descriptions across English and Spanish
    (Akadémiai Kiadó, 2025-11-11) Alonso Alonso, Rosa; Cifuentes-Férez, Paula; Sin departamento asociado
    Boundary-crossing events have been analyzed from the perspective of the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis (Slobin, 1996) both in first and second language acquisition. Moreover, this framework has also been applied to translation, leading to the thinking-for-translating hypothesis. Audio description (AD) is a type of intersemiotic translation (Jakobson, 1959) that involves translation across sign systems. In this field of research, no studies have been conducted on boundary-crossing testing the thinking-for-speaking hypothesis. The present study aims to fill that gap by analyzing this constraint in audio descriptions (ADs) of two films in the Harry Potter saga. Differences across English and Spanish AD are analyzed as well as the use of the different types and tokens produced in path, manner, and path+manner verbs. Additionally, the omission and inclusion of boundary-crossing across both ADs has been included. Findings show that English AD contains more boundary-crossing events. In Spanish AD, a higher proportion of path verbs were used while more manner verbs were used in English AD. Moreover, expressing Path and Manner outside the verb was more common in English AD, and boundary-crossing events were omitted to a larger extent in Spanish AD.
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    The emotional experience of films: does Audio Description make a difference?
    (Routledge. Taylor and Francis Group., 2015-01-25) Ramos Caro, Marina; Traducción e Interpretación
    Experiencing emotion is one of the main reasons why we watch movies, go to the theatre or expose ourselves to different audiovisual manifestations. Audio Description attempts to provide the visually impaired with an experience similar to that offered by audiovisual formats such as cinema, dance or theatre. This paper focuses on Audio Description of films, with the aim of discovering whether there are differences between the emotional experience of films as whole audiovisual texts, films without the visual component (only music, sounds and dialogue) and films with Audio Description. We designed a study to measure the emotional experience in sighted and in visually impaired audiences. More specifically, we worked with three basic emotions (disgust, fear and sadness) and 15 film scenes that had been previously validated as effective stimuli in the psychological literature. Employing a Likert questionnaire (PANASX) and heart rate measurement, we compared the emotional impact of these scenes in three different versions (normal films, films without images and films with Audio Description) for 70 sighted and visually impaired subjects. Results showed statistically significant differences between the three stated versions for disgust and fear, but not for sadness.
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    When faces don’t lie. Physiology and facial expressions in the reception of audio described porn
    (John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024-10-10) Ramos Caro, Marina; Rojo López, Ana María; Traducción e Interpretación
    In the last decades, Cognitive Translation Studies (CTIS) have witnessed agrowing expansion of Audio Description (AD), with emphasis onexperimental studies examining the psychological factors that influence thecreation and reception of AD. While most studies have focused on thecreation phase of AD, recent reception research has explored emotions,immersion, and presence in the context of AD. A study by Rojo etal. (2021)investigated the impact of AD on the reception of porn, comparing thepsychophysiological response of sighted participants watching audiovisualcontent with blind and sighted participants listening to AD without images.The results indicated no significant differences in physiological andsubjective responses. The present study aims at providing further evidenceon the participants’ emotional response by analyzing their facial expressionsusing the FaceReader software (Noldus Information Technology). Unlikecardiac and cortisol responses, the analysis of the participants’ facialexpressions reveals some intriguing differences between the groups thatpoint to some emotional differences in the reception of porn