DCMP Description Key

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• Description Key Home
• A Definition of Description
• DCMP Description Philosophy
• About the Key
• About the Description Key
• About the DCMP
• About the NAD
• Background
• History of Description
• Describing for Children
• General Considerations
• Final Note
• References and Resources
• Quality Description
• Job Descriptions
• Preparation
• Familiarization with Program Being Described
• Voicer Considerations
• What to Describe
• General
• Characters/People
• Scenes and Scene Changes
• Passage of Time
• Extended Description
• How to Describe
• General
• Point of View & Narrative Tense
• Timing & Rate
• Vocabulary & Interpretation
• Objectivity & Interpretation
• Music
• Ambient Background Sounds & Sound Effects
• Text On-Screen
• Technical Issues
• Mixing Description with the Program Audio
• Resources
• General
• Guidance/Practices
• Vocabulary–Online Resources
• Vocabulary–Print Resources
• Code of Conduct for Describers
• Code of Conduct
• Print the Description Key
• Contact Us
• Description Service Vendors
• Captioning Key

 

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