Audio Description Transcript: Untitled

A Video by Raya Shields

Audio Describer: This is a two-minute introduction for Raya Shields’s untitled video. This introduction will describe the majority of the visuals for the video. During the video, I will say a cue word to indicate changes and new visuals not expressed through the film’s narrative. Raya narrates the film. Here are the five cue words and brief visual descriptions in order of appearance, followed shortly by the film.

Raya - Raya is a young woman, with short brown hair in a side part. Black glasses with white polka dots frame brown eyes. She wears a white shirt with thin blue horizontal stripes, or a red hoodie with gray cuffs.

Writing - writing indicates a fast motion view of Raya pasting cut out letters and words on an eleven by seventeen paper to form words and sentences. The cutouts are different shapes, sizes, and colors. Some are glossy from magazines, some are newspaper. On the desk above the paper is a cut out with the word behavior in neon pink block lettering. As the video progresses, the lettering becomes recognizable as the text Raya speaks in the voice over.

Sneakers - sneakers indicates a view of ankles down, stirring feet on a wood floor. The shoes are new, white and black, with a woven texture and black laces.

Classroom - classroom indicates Raya in a seemingly newly built classroom. She sits at a clean square desk, at times her wrists oscillate, her body rises slightly, and repeatedly her head moves in a circular motion, her jaw drops open and to the right which Raya calls rocking and flapping.

Paint - paint indicates a white background, flicking onto it are thick blocks of black paint with a shiny veneer. They vary in size. Sometimes the sequence is shown in reverse with the blots coming off the page.

The video begins with an over the shoulder view of Raya in her white shirt pasting letters on to the eleven by seventeen white sheet of paper, on a brown surface. A red plastic side plate with paste and a brush is beside her.

End credits roll. Special thanks to Michelle Peek - Filming, Liz Jackson - Story Development, Liz Brockest - Technical and emotional support, Patty Douglas - Lead Researcher, Andrea LaMarre - Audio, Elizabeth Harrison - Audio

My amazing fellow participants for their support and companionship

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Enacting Critical Disability Communities in Education

Patty Douglas, PhD pattydouglas at gmail dot com

SSHRC Canada

Brandon University

University of Toronto

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Manchester Metropolitan University

Ryerson University

University of Guelph

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