"Onnellisina he liitävät liaanilla hännät viuhuen": Shifting between frames in audio described framed narrative
Perander, Hilda (2020)
2020
Englannin kielen, kirjallisuuden ja kääntämisen tutkinto-ohjelma, humanististen tieteiden kandidaatin tutkinto - Degree Programme in English Language, Literature and Translation, Bachelor of Arts
Informaatioteknologian ja viestinnän tiedekunta - Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
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Hyväksymispäivämäärä
2020-04-30
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202004243702
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202004243702
Tiivistelmä
The purpose of this study is to investigate how audio description supports narration in a story that is built around a framed narrative structure. A framed narrative is a form of storytelling where the characters of one story tell each other a story. In this study, I use a theory on framed narrative as presented by Katharine Young to divide the narrative shifts into smaller pieces and to determine if a shift is interrupted or not.
Audio description is an accessibility practice where visible material is described in an audible form for blind or visually impaired people. In this study, I use the categories presented by Anna Marzà Ibañez to classify the informational content in the description. The classification states that audio description answers to the following questions about the material: where, when, what, who, and how. A third central theory is Christopher Taylor’s theory on multimodal transcription which I adapted to depict audio described material for this thesis.
I studied an episode from a Finnish-British children’s TV show Moominvalley called Muumipapan kalajuttu, which contains 12 shifts within the narrative. I inspected the pieces of audio description that occur in the instance of a shift when the narrative moves to another dimension physically or temporally. I classified these pieces of audio description based on the amount of information they contain and the interruption status and the direction of the shift to which they relate.
The research shows that the direction of a shift somewhat affects the amount of information in a piece of audio description. When the narrative moves from an inner story to an outer story, i.e. from a story to a conversation between the characters, a piece of audio description relating to that shift is often shorter and contains less types of information than in situations where the narrative moves from conversation to a story. The interruption status of a shift seemed to have little effect on audio description based on this study.
The results of this study indicate phenomena in a singular occasion and cannot be generalized to all of audio described material. Future research could include studies on Finnish audio described children’s media in general. Audio description for Finnish movies and TV-shows has been done for years by a small number of professionals, and research on the field is sparse. It could be beneficial to examine the description tendencies of different audio describers and compare them to each other and to existing guidelines to get a better picture on the situation and the level of Finnish audio description.
Audio description is an accessibility practice where visible material is described in an audible form for blind or visually impaired people. In this study, I use the categories presented by Anna Marzà Ibañez to classify the informational content in the description. The classification states that audio description answers to the following questions about the material: where, when, what, who, and how. A third central theory is Christopher Taylor’s theory on multimodal transcription which I adapted to depict audio described material for this thesis.
I studied an episode from a Finnish-British children’s TV show Moominvalley called Muumipapan kalajuttu, which contains 12 shifts within the narrative. I inspected the pieces of audio description that occur in the instance of a shift when the narrative moves to another dimension physically or temporally. I classified these pieces of audio description based on the amount of information they contain and the interruption status and the direction of the shift to which they relate.
The research shows that the direction of a shift somewhat affects the amount of information in a piece of audio description. When the narrative moves from an inner story to an outer story, i.e. from a story to a conversation between the characters, a piece of audio description relating to that shift is often shorter and contains less types of information than in situations where the narrative moves from conversation to a story. The interruption status of a shift seemed to have little effect on audio description based on this study.
The results of this study indicate phenomena in a singular occasion and cannot be generalized to all of audio described material. Future research could include studies on Finnish audio described children’s media in general. Audio description for Finnish movies and TV-shows has been done for years by a small number of professionals, and research on the field is sparse. It could be beneficial to examine the description tendencies of different audio describers and compare them to each other and to existing guidelines to get a better picture on the situation and the level of Finnish audio description.
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