Descriptive Movies - Great Holiday Gift

When was the last time you did something simple, and it had a profound difference in your life as well as someone else’s?

This holiday season, consider something new for the family – Audio Description movies.

The blind community have been enjoying movies on the big screen and through their library where the action and settings of scenes and frames of the movie brings the story to life.

My first experience of one such movie was Finding Nemo at an assistive technology event for youth.

My second experience was watching and listening to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Wow, what an experience. It was better than watching it for the first time. I was experiencing it with a group, a couple of people being blind, one with some light perception and another with no light perception.

After the movie, we had a group recap of what we liked about the experience, didn’t like, and whatever else we wanted to share.

As this was my first experience in the movie with the descriptive headset. First, we went to like the concierge desk, requested the headset, then signed our names on a ledger with the headset number.

Obviously we assisted those who were unable to complete the ledger themselves.

My experience was:

On the internet, you can find more information on this:

As an But for blind and low vision audiences, these visual effects are often left a mystery at best unless there is audio description.
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10 Movies to Watch with Audio Description

• Avatar.      ...
• Avengers:      Infinity War. ...
• Star      Wars: The Force Awakens. ...
• Frozen.      ...
• Inception.      ...
• Finding      Nemo. ...
• The      Shape of Water. ...
• The      Hunger Games.

Also on

· acb.org – American council of the blind

· nfb.org - National Federation of the Blind

· your state Assistive Technology center

· you local library or national library for the blind

· National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled