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the blind audience without audio description.

‘’We’re painting a picture of a film so the blind consumer can experience the same films and television programs as other individuals,’’ Sohl said.

The process of writing audio description usually starts with watching the film and taking notes on moments where characters are named, different locations are established or on something that’s going to be relevant later.

Sohl talked about the audio description work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He said some of the important scenes were deducted because of the extremely high security right before release.

‘’They intentionally degraded a lot of the images, so I didn’t exactly know what happened until right before release they gave us a clean version we had to quickly describe on the fly,” Sohl said.

Laura Post is a voice actress and voice director best known for anime characters.

“My first movie was Rise of the Guardians, and I’ve been doing it ever since,’’ Post said.

According to Post, the narration recording process usually takes twice as long as the length of the movie.

Voice objectivity is one of the biggest challenges as a voice actor, according to Post.

“As an actor you really want to act, but it’s not our job to tell the audience how to feel about the movie,’’ Post said.

Post said movie narration requires a lot of practice and matching the tone, or scenaric theme.

Sohl said pauses are an important part of the narration as well, and sometimes it speaks for itself.

‘’Don’t describe something unless it needs to be there, because you’re interrupting those carefully orchestrated collages of sound effects, music and dialogue,’’ Sohl said.

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