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can also:
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Read
about the latest developments
in subtitled & audio described cinema.
Click
below for the latest cinema industry magazine articles
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related news/media items HERE
About
this service:
The
UK leads the world in 'accessible' cinema.
Hundreds of cinemas regularly screen the latest films with on-screen
subtitles and a narrated soundtrack (audio description) for people
with hearing or sight loss.
Click
to view advert:
Subtitled
and audio described cinema enables people with less than perfect
hearing or vision to enjoy film, presented in its original, and
best form - the cinema.
This
service - 'Your Local Cinema .com' - is the only
listings service created exclusively for accessible cinema. Our
service can be found wherever there is internet access - at home,
the workplace, school, a library, an internet cafe, or the thousands
of wi-fi hotspots and internet kiosks throughout the UK and Ireland.
The
service serves as a one stop shop both for the cinema industry and
for public audiences interested in accessible screenings UK-wide,
which are listed clearly each week. We have a weekly email newsletter,
notifying thousands of people of accessible shows in their area
and our database of people interested in accessible cinema continues
to increase. If you would like to receive our bulletins, or if you
run a cinema and would like to have your accessible shows publicised,
please email us at subtitles@yourlocalcinema.com.
In
2009 Your Local Cinema .com, the cinema listings
& information service for people with hearing or sight
loss, won the Daily Mail People's
Choice Enterprise Award as well as the British
Telecom BT Remote Worker Award. The company was also
a finalist in the 'Best Arts Project' category of the National
Lottery Awards.
Details
here.
"Have you ever tried to lip-read a masked super hero
or villain? Or an animated rat, fish, car or robot? Without
subtitles we just watch the pictures and guess the story"
"I
have lost my sight. You think I can't enjoy the cinema?
Imagine the scariest film you know, only SCARIER!"
Click
here to read selection of quotes and reports from people
with hearing or sight loss who have discovered - or rediscovered
- the joys of cinema-going, thanks to subtitles and audio
description:
http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/quote.html
About
cinema subtitles & audio description.
Cinema
subtitles/captions are displayed along the bottom of the cinema
screen. They include the spoken text as well as descriptions
of sounds such as 'door creaks', 'footsteps approaching',
'gunshot' etc.
Cinema
audio description is a recorded narration which explains
- in gaps in the dialogue - what's happening on screen.
It's delivered through wireless headphones - only the wearer
hears the audio description soundtrack. One blind cinema-goer
has likened the experience to listening to a Harry Potter
audio book, but with all the actors voicing their own parts,
and the addition of the film soundtrack - in fabulous surround
sound.
"It's
the accessible cinema experience: SEE the dialogue! HEAR
the action!"
Your
Local Cinema .com is a non-profit group sponsored by the
UK film industry and would not exist without the input and
assistance of the groups below:
CEA - Cinema Exhibitors' Association and UK cinemas
AIM - All industry Marketing
FDA - Film Distributors' Association and UK film distributors
ITFC, DTS, Dolby and more.
