Movies with Audio Description
Did you know that more and more movies are coming out with a feature to turn on audio description?
Films with audio description have a professional narration explaining what is happening when the characters aren’t speaking. Facial expressions, body language, scenery, anything that helps people understand the film is mentioned by skillful narrators who have to arrange their script around the main film soundtrack so that it does not interfere with the original film.
In order to turn on the audio description, there is a menu feature that will say languages and here you can change the language to maybe Spanish or French; you can turn on the subtitles which means that the text will appear on the screen for people that are hearing impaired and also audio descriptive language. In order to know if a movie has audio description, look on the back of the movie case and it will be listed or will have an audio description logo like one of these:
The movie studios that generally include audio description are Disney, Pixar, Buena Vista, Fox, Paramount, Sony & Universal.
Enjoy your movies!
