Descriptive Movies - Great Holiday Gift
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When was the last time you did something simple, and it had a profound difference in your life as well as someone else\\u2019s?
\\nThis holiday season, consider something new for the family \\u2013 Audio Description movies.
\\nThe 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.
\\nMy first experience of one such movie was Finding Nemo at an assistive technology event for youth.
\\nMy second experience was watching and listening to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
\\nWow, 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.
\\nAfter the movie, we had a group recap of what we liked about the experience, didn\\u2019t like, and whatever else we wanted to share.
\\nAs 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.
\\nObviously we assisted those who were unable to complete the ledger themselves.
\\nMy experience was:
\\nOn the internet, you can find more information on this:
\\nAs 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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\\n 10 Movies to Watch with Audio Description
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- Avatar. ... \\n
- Avengers: Infinity War. ... \\n
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens. ... \\n
- Frozen. ... \\n
- Inception. ... \\n
- Finding Nemo. ... \\n
- The Shape of Water. ... \\n
- The Hunger Games. \\n
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\\n\\xb7 acb.org \\u2013 American council of the blind
\\n\\xb7 nfb.org - National Federation of the Blind
\\n\\xb7 your state Assistive Technology center
\\n\\xb7 you local library or national library for the blind
\\n\\xb7 National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
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