4/21 Blind Imagination

The reading from Georgina Kleege illustrates the importance of audio descriptions and considering the different modalities in which people process information. These ways of processing are diverse and can be highly individual. This is shown through the point that there is a different form of description required for someone who is born blind compared to someone who became blind during their life. Kleege comments on the inherent bias to visual information in sighted society and the sense of alienation it directs to blind individuals. Verbal information is also a very important and rich mode of experiencing the word, shown through writing and the way that doesn't directly need to paint a picture in one's mind, but give individuals a vivid feeling of the content. Speaking on to the discussion question, audio descriptions can help both a blind audience get a sense of the information being presented and describe the feelings associated with them that help a blind audience connect to those feelings. For a sighted audience, audio descriptions can help guide their attention to details they might have otherwise missed, or clarify things in the scene witnessed by not quite understood. Audio descriptions can be thought of as an art form in a similar way storytelling is an art form. It's describing something and broadening understanding of what's going on, and this can be very intricate and diverse in terms of how that information is given. Like an art form, an individual can have their own style of audio description that can vary from others and have a distinct effect.