EASIT.
Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training.
This is unit 3C, E2U and Audiovisual Journalism;
Element 3. Technical Aspects, E2U AVJ news item sample.
I am Andrej Tomažin, from RTV Slovenija.
In the following minutes I will show you a news item in Easy Slovenian.
Since producing AVJ content in Easy Language is a rather difficult task,
as it is not only the text which is read and narrated in Easy Language,
but also the moving images and the editing needs to be adapted in Easy Language.
That means that we must follow certain techniques
which makes it easier for the people to understand,
and this part of the content production has yet to be theoretically researched
and is mostly done in praxis.
One of the features that you will notice and this is a practice which we first saw
at the Finnish broadcaster YLE, which produces news in Easy Finnish
is that there is a reiteration of the central idea of the news item
in the middle of the news item itself.
That makes it easier for viewers to comprehend the message.
The news item that I am about to show you, focuses on Slovenian Sports Day,
which was declared on 23rd of September 2020.
The emphasis of the news item is on athletes with disabilities.
One of them, a paracyclist, was cycling around Ljubljana
and thanking all the sponsors and media supporters,
as was the case with RTV Slovenija.
The news item narration is done in Easy Language fashion.
With regard to the visual aspect, the cuts are a bit longer than usual
and the images follow the narration as closely as possible.
For the end, let me just open-up a discussion
regarding two features from the video.
First is the beginning, which opens as a contextual introduction.
It might be too hard for the target group of users to understand,
since the images offer a general idea of what sports are
and don't really follow the narration in the strictest sense,
since the ideas presented are more abstract than those that follow.
The second feature are the statements within the news items.
In this case, it is a statement by the paracyclist.
One of the options with statements could be to paraphrase it in Easy Slovenian.
In this case, the problem might arise when dealing with delicate topics,
where the main figures do not talk clearly,
use difficult words or are vague in their statements.
For example politicians.
With paraphrasing, we might set foot on the ground of modifying utterances
where this cannot be done without authorization.
One of the options to tackle this problem would be to summarize
and simplify the statement before or after its occurrence.
The viewers would be able to understand the original statement,
and at the same time hear the original words of the speaker.
This is one of the possible ways of creating E2U AVJ content.
In this case news item.
Find and try other possibilities that work best for you in your environment.
The video sample in this video was adapted, prepared and edited by Andrej Tomažin
and Veronika Rot from RTV Slovenija.
The text was read by Miha Zor from RTV Slovenija.
It was produced by RTV Slovenija.
I hope this information was useful.
This video was prepared by Andrej Tomažin, from RTV Slovenija.
You can reach me at andrej.tomazin@rtvslo.si.
Partners of the EASIT project: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona,
Universita degli studi di Trieste, Universida de Vigo,
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, SDI München,
Dyslexiförbundet, RTV Slovenija, Zavod Risa.
EASIT.
Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training.