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Blind Imagination Reading

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When reading Blind Imagination: Pictures into Words, I found myself disagreeing with the filmaker that said, "The problem is that every image would take so many words to descibe adequetaely, that there would be no way that the audio description could keep up with the action." I feel like this is silly to say because movies have scripts that describe whats, importantly going on visually, outside of the dialogue and are a really good condesed written description of most movies and plays. If a script is changed to be a better audio description than I think it is enough to have that available to people. I remember reading Romeo and Juliet in highschool and I understood the scenes without having to see them visually. I would argue most modern movies don't have a lot going on visiually because less is more, is often what I think modern movies go for. Sometime the movies are so visually dark they are hard to see whats going on anways, so I don't think movies are too complex for audio description especially since most movies have scripts. I think kids movies and animations are harder because they actually have more complex visual scenes since kids don't care as much for dialogue and are entertained more visually.