Interview with Louise Fryer
Channel: Xunco English
Date: 2017-03-24

Interview with Dr Louise Fryer, author of An Introduction to Audio Description: A Practical Guide (2016).
Recorded by Tomás Costal (UNED).
Subtitles available in English.

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0:20 - Could you tell us about the early stages in your career?
2:53 - What is audio description?
3:08 - What are audio introductions?
4:06 - What are audio subtitles?
4:52 - Could you explain the concept of 'presence', a key term in your latest monograph?
5:53 - What is your relationship with the consolidated research group Transmedia Catalonia?
6:32 - Do blind and partially sighted people have a voice on how audio description, audio introductions and audio subtitles are made?
7:27 - Should the voice of the audio describer be detached and robotic-like, or different from that?
8:29 - Where does audio description as a discipline or as a modality fit within the larger framework of accessibility?
8:59 - What does the future hold for the field of accessibility, audio describers and audio description?
9:35 - Do you think that audio description, as well as the other modalities of accessibility could be an active way of learning a new language?

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Fryer, L. (2016). An Introduction to Audio Description: A Practical Guide. London: Routledge. https://goo.gl/RNKTHa