About the workshop

This workshop is for filmmakers and other artists working with moving image. Elaine Lillian Joseph, a founding member of SoundScribe, will work with a small group of participants to consider different uses and forms of audio description (AD) in moving image work. In this workshop we will think about how sound design plays a role in the production of AD, and how the artform is elevated with engagement and direct contribution from blind and visually impaired people. Following an introduction from Elaine, participants will take part in a hands-on workshop developing AD for a short film extract.  

This will be a unique opportunity to learn from Elaine and hear more about her work with SoundScribe.

We have limited spaces available, as well as a small number of travel/access bursaries available for Midlands based artist filmmakers who would like to make their work more accessible. To book and/or enquire please contact Radar curator Lucy Lopez by emailing l.lopez@lboro.ac.uk  

This workshop is taking place as part of Mathew Wayne Parkin’s visiting artist work with Radar, and in conversation with artist and Loughborough academic Dr El Morgan. SoundScribe provided guidance on access and audio description for Parkin’s recent Cubitt commission I can fit a fist in my mouth.  

 

About the workshop leader

Elaine Lillian Joseph is an audio describer based in London and Birmingham. She is a founding member of SoundScribe, a global majority collective of audio describers and consultants specialising in access for performance work, arts institutions and moving image. She offers an embodied and creative approach that resists the pressure to create de-personalised audio descriptions, re-centering marginalised voices through consultation and collaborations with blind and visually impaired artists and audiences. The question that galvanises her practice is: how can we honour the labour of access work and create a service that powerfully resonates with users?