Spanish Question

I. General Questions on the AD Process (15%)

  1. What was the most rewarding part of the process of AD? Why? Please, be specific.
  2. How did you overcome challenges during your research? Identify at least three (3) difficulties that arose during the project and explain how you solved them.
  3. How did you navigate multimodal tools (voice-over script, images, sound, music)?

II. Script: Focusing on verbal language (25%) (Modules 2 and 3)

  1. What was the hardest part of writing your script regarding language (i.e. selection of adjectives, adverbs, matching time and words, etc.) and what was the easiest? Why? Please offer specific examples.
  1. Do you feel your level of Spanish or English has improved by writing this script and doing this project? How? Please, be specific.
  2. What, if anything, has your project made you notice about language that you did not notice before?
  3. Explain in detail how movement has been expressed through words in your AD taking into account specifically what we discussed this semester in class about choosing the right lexical choice of verbs and what we discussed when commenting AD for dancing.
  4. How was the revising and editing process of the script? Be specific.

III. Voice-over: Focusing on vocal skills (20%)

  1. What prosodic features (intonation, pitch, tone of voice) did you notice are crucial in AD? Please, be specific and provide examples.
  2. How do you think your pronunciation of Spanish or English has improved because of the voice over of your AD project? Please, be specific and provide examples.
  3. Did you notice that your vocal skills would need to adapt to the rhythm or genre of the movie, play or art piece? Please, be specific and provide examples.
  4. What was the hardest part of doing the voice-over and what was the easiest? Why? Please, be specific.

IV. Creativity in AD (10%) (Modules 12 and 13)

Think of two (2) examples or instances in your final project where you were compelled to use a creative AD approach and answer the following questions:

  1. Explain those two (2) cases of creative AD. Why did you decide to do it?
  2. How did you deviate from standard guidelines of AD?
  3. Are you satisfied with the result? Why?
  4. What consequences do you extract from using creative AD in your final project
  5. After having read the article “´What should I say? ´ Tentative Criteria to Prioritize Information in the Audio Description of Film Characters” by Fresno et al. (2016), what are the types of traits that you have used to describe the main characters in your final project? And for the secondary characters?
  6. After having read the article “How Co-Speech Gestures are Rendered in Audio Description: A Case Study” by Jankowska & Zabrocka (2016), please give examples in your final project of each one of the three types of gestures that the authors identify.
  7. According to that same article (“How Co-Speech Gestures are Rendered in Audio Description: A Case Study” by Jankowska & Zabrocka, 2016), please explain and justify what type of strategy did you use in each type of the gestures identified above.
  8. After reading the article of English and Spanish AD in Élite by García-Vizcaíno (2021), identify in your final project three (3) cases of kinesics, looks, or face expressions that may have a different cultural impact in English and Spanish. Explain in detail.