2015 Seminar

08:30 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 09:15

Welcome address by Anna Matamala (TransMedia Catalonia, UAB, Catalonia)

09:15 – 10:00

KEYNOTE LECTURE by Gian Maria Greco (POIESIS, accessibility expert).

Chair: Federico Spoletti (SUB-TI).

10:00 – 11:00

PANEL 1. GESTURES AND EMOTIONS

Chair: Agnieszka Chmiel (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland)

–       Anna Jankowska & Monika Zabrocka (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland): Poetics of gesture: How are gestures rendered in audio description?

–       Gert Vercauteren (University of Antwerp, Belgium): Can you feel it? Emotion in film and audio description. Presentation 

            Coffee break (11:00 – 11:30)

11:30 – 13:30

PANEL 2. THEORETICAL APPROACHES

Chair: Aline Remael

–       Sabine Braun (University of Surrey, UK): The importance of being relevant? The benefits of using pragmatic and cognitive approaches to conceptualise audio description

–       Agnieszka Chmiel & Iwona Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland): How to eat a cake and still have it, or about descriptive versus narrative AD (once again)

–       Jana Holsanova (Lund University, Sweden): Theoretical and methodological approaches to audio description

–       Susanne Jekat (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland): On the reception of audio description: Developing a method to compare films and their audio described versions. Presentation.

Lunch break (13:30-14:30) Although lunch is not included, sandwiches will be offered to participants

14:30-15:00

15:00-16:30

PROJECT BOOSTER SESSION (main hall)

followed by POSTER SESSION (coffee room).

Chair: Anna Matamala (UAB, TransMedia Catalonia)

–       Aikaterini Tsaousi, Carla Ortiz & Héctor Delgado (UAB, Catalonia): Raising awareness on accessibility: the “Breaking communication barriers” workshop revisited

–       Cristóbal Cabeza-Cáceres (Universitat d’Alacant & TransMedia Catalonia): Audio description feed-back: research and teaching put together. Presentation.

–       Floriane Bardini (Universitat de Vic, Catalonia): Audio description and film experience. Design of a reception study. Presentation.

–       Gala Rodríguez Posadas, Silvia Soler Gallego & M. Olalla Luque Colmenero (Kaleidoscope, Granada, Spain): Painting with words: audio description in the art museum

–       Joel Snyder (Audio Description Associates- American Council of the Blind, Washington, DC, USA) & Joanna Esquibel (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland): The ball is red—just like a fire engine. Audio description as a tool to increase literacy in children: a preliminary study.

–       Joel Snyder (Audio Description Associates- American Council of the Blind, Washington, DC, USA):  Describers in Training—using The visual made verbal: A comprehensive training manual and guide to the history and applications of audio description

–       Jolanta Chojnacka & Marta Kołodziejska (Centrum Kultury Wroclaw-Zachód, Poland):  Iceland and Poland Against Exclusion from Culture- international cooperation based on the idea of audio description

–       Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): Audio description training at a university level: teaching new modes of audiovisual translation

–       Kulnaree Sueroj (Thammasat University, Thailand): The myth of disability in audio description

–       Montse Corrius & Eva Espasa (Universitat de Vic, Catalonia): Audio description and cultural access in Catalonia: a qualitative approach

–       Nazaret Fresno, Judit Castellà, Anna Matamala & Olga Soler (TransMedia Catalonia, UAB, Catalonia): Audio describing characters: what features do audiences remember? Presentation

–       Phateera Sarakornborrirak (Thammasat University, Thailand): The different needs of Thais with visual impairment on audio description

–       Stefania Pinnelli & Andrea Fiorucci (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy): Audio description of the feature film Kirikou and the Sorceress. Inclusive opportunities and learning processes: a survey with a sighted group.

Coffee will be offered during the poster session

16:30-17:30

PANEL 3. THE ADLAB PROJECT

Chair and project introduction: Christopher Taylor (University of Trieste, Italy). Presentation

–       Elisa Perego (University of Trieste): The ADLAB book. Presentation

–       Agnieszka Chmiel & Iwona Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland): ADLAB testing with users

–       Gert Vercauteren (University of Antwerp, Belgium): The ADLAB guidelines. Presentation.

17:30-18:30

PANEL 4. AD & TECHNOLOGY

Chair: Gert Vercauteren (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

–       Joel Snyder (Audio Description Associates- American Council of the Blind, Washington, DC, USA) & Simon Padro (Compass Interactive, London, UK): Audio description and the smartphone: AD access in the future

–       Agnieszka Szarkowska (University of Warsaw, Poland) & Anna Jankowska (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland): Open Art—designing a multimedia guide app for visitors with and without sensory impairments. Presentation

09:00 – 10:30

PANEL 5. AD PRACTICES I

Chair: Agnieszka Szarkowska

–       Irena Michalewicz (Poland): Is it a monster? Audio describing horror films. Presentation

–       Anna Sadowska (John Paul Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), Renata Nych & Jerzy Myszak (De Facto Association of Work for People with Disabilities, Plock, Poland): Audio description—kid’s stuff. Presentation.

–       Dawning Leung (University College London, UK): Audio description in Hong Kong: gauging the needs of the audience

–       Thorunn Hjartardottir, Gudbjorg Hjartardottir Leaman (free-lance audio describers, Iceland) & Ewa Marcinek (accessibility expert, Poland): Language issues in audio description

Coffee break (10:30 – 11:00)

11:00 – 13:00

PANEL 6. AD PRACTICES II

Chair: Bernd Benecke (BR)

–       Nina Reviers (University of Antwerp, Belgium): The language of Dutch AD: first results of a corpus-based study

–       Aline Remael (University of Antwerp, Belgium): Experimenting with AD for in-house TV productions: an example from Flanders. Presentation.

–       Susanne Verberk (Nevero, Belgium): Working with “image whisperers” for voluntary audio description. Presentation.

–       Wojciech Figiel, Robert Więckowski and Olga Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw, Poland): The art we want to listen to: reception study of audio description to museums and art galleries

–       Sarah Eardley-Weaver (Queen’s University Belfast, UK): Listen up! Raising awareness of arts accessibility

13:00 – 14:00

PANEL 7. THE HBB4ALL PROJECT

Chair and project introduction: Pilar Orero (UAB). Presentation

–       Agnieszka Walczak (UAB): Tests in HBB4ALL. Presentation 

–       Alicia Rodríguez (UAB & Soni2): Quality in AD

14:00-14:15

CLOSING REMARKS by Pilar Orero (TransMedia Catalonia, UAB)