Rethinking “What You Say Is What You See” for Audio Description Production

Abstract

                This article is a part of the research Describing Approaches on “Name Supers” in Documentary Programs for Audio Description Production. The research found that the describing approach of name supers used in these documentary programs is not obliged only to objectivity approach or descriptive style. The length of natural pauses, the length of name credits, the amount of name supers and the important meanings of image, sound and graphic elements in others natural pauses, together with the frequency of name being superimposed, and etc. are factors that force audio describers to consider other describing approaches to be used in audio description production.