The audio description of emotions and gestures in Spanish-spoken films

Abstract

Audio description (AD) is an intersemiotic transfer mode that makes performing ares, audiovisual produces, countries' natural, historic and cultural heritage, and all kinds of socio-cultural events accessible to wider audiences. According to AENOR (2005: 4), it can be defined as "a set of techniques and abilities whose main objective is to compensate for the lack of perception of the visual component in any audiovisual message, by providing suitable sound information which translates or explains, in such a way that the visually impaired perceive the message as a harmonious work which is as similar as possible to that which is perceived by the sighted"