EASIT: Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training.
This is Unit 3B.
Easy to Understand and Audio Description.
Element 1: Processes.
Other Video:
Easy-to-Understand Audio Description.
Hello! I am Andreea Deleanu,
a Conference Interpreting and Translation student
at Università degli Studi di Trieste.
You will watch and listen to the first excerpt,
with a standard AD in English.
Then, you will watch and listen to the same excerpt,
with an E2U AD.
The E2U version follows E2U principles.
As you can see,
the text is similar to Easy to Read language,
rather than to Plain Language.
In fact, in an audiovisual context with strict time constraints,
it is better to simplify the text
and read it more slowly to understand it better,
leaving the user more processing time
and avoiding an information-overload.
Stories behind the faces: Sabina Dermota.
At the top of a grass slope is pile of gravel.
Behind it, where the hill slopes to the other side
three deciduous trees grow
and one in front of them.
A tent is pitched next to it.
A woman in hiking gear with a rucksack
and trekking poles in her hands arrives at the highest spot
at the top of the gravel pile.
Listening to the AD,
you can notice how vividly it describes the scene
thanks to the use of concise and precise words
such as grassy, deciduous and pitched.
These are morphologically complex and semantically rich words,
that might not fit every user.
Also uncommon words such as slope,
gravel and gear, are very descriptive
but not easy for everyone.
As you can see,
the E2U AD avoids the most difficult words.
To be read slowly and to be more comprehensible,
it uses concise sentences and avoids the longer bits.
The title of the documentary show is: Stories behind the faces.
The documentary show presents Sabina Dermota.
She is visually impaired.
Small stones are placed on the top of a hill.
There are a few trees around the small stones.
A blond woman appears.
She is wearing a rucksack and trekking clothes.
She gets closer to the small stones, she sits down and she begins to talk.
We hope you enjoyed the video and learned something new!
This is just one way of implementing E2U principles in AD.
More solutions are certainly possible.
Think about them and find new ways to simplify the original AD!
The standard AD in this video sample was created by Miha Zor
from RTV Slovenija.
The E2U AD was created by Elisa Perego,
from Università degli Studi di Trieste.
Both were read by Miha Zor from RTV Slovenija.
The documentary film screenwriter
was Neva Novljan.
The film director was Boštjan Mašera.
Produced by Educational Programmes, Programme Editor: Aleša Valič.
Culture and Arts Programme, Editor-in-chief: Andraž Pöschl.
It was produced by RTV Slovenija in 2015.
This video sample was prepared by Elisa Perego
and Andreea Deleanu from Università degli Studi di Trieste,
Andrej Tomažin and Veronika Rot from RTV Slovenija.
It was produced by RTV Slovenija.