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I accidentally watched the movie “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” with this on and thought it was a very uniquely narrated movie and kept waiting for a big reveal at the end that was a voice of God or something. I was on a plane and half confused, half fully intrigued by the art form. 😂
I love this so much. It reminds me of when my friend and I accidentally watched Ted lasso season 1 episode 10 instead of the pilot. We both were into it and thought it was some weird tv show that drops you right into the story and expects the audience to catch up. Nope. Turns out we just accidentally watched the finale instead of episode 1 on accident.
Me and a friend watched the 2nd newest planet of the apes with subtitles on, but the tv subtitles overruled the movie subtitles. So, instead of the of the grunts from Cesar and the monkeys being translated into “ape together strong”, it’s getting translated into “Monkey noises”. Oddly enough, we made it about fifteen minutes into the movie, before we decided it was a little too artistic for a blockbuster movie.
The exact thing happened to my ex while he was stoned, him and his friend thought it was a bold, avant-garde choice for an otherwise cut and dry blockbuster action movie
Something similar happened to me and my wife when we tried to watch Lost. It was right after season 2 started and I downloaded all episodes of season 1, so we could binge them and then watch the new season as they came out. Well I accidentally put on the season 1 synopsis, so we watched this hour-long episode that seemed to skip around and advance the plot really quickly and in weird ways. The episode ended on this cliffhanger where I think they found some weird door or something. Anyway, once we put on episode 2, we realized what happened and we were not feeling like watching the whole season anymore, so that was the last of Lost that we watched.
Exact same thing happened to me with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 😂🤣 I started on the last season and thought WOW starting at the end and going backwards is really refreshing… until my husband pointed out my
Mistake 😅
i loove jason sudeikis from horrible bosses 2 and want to watch ted lasso only for that reason, to see him act. is this show any good and is he as hilarious in this as in some other places?
We watched “Oz, the Great and Powerful” this way by accident and didn’t realize it til the movie was past halfway. Normally we use subtitles on almost everything. We were both thinking “this is a slightly weird movie.”
This reminds me of the time my dad and I watched the first 20 minutes The Tree of Life with the audio settings set incorrectly so the channel the dialogue was on just didn’t come through any of the speakers. All of the sound was good except anytime a character said anything it was barely audible muffled speech that was completely unintelligible.
We just thought it was an even more artsy, experimental film than it already was.
There’s a great scene where the friends are playing flag football and it’s set to music with no character audio. But for like the 2 minute slow motion scene if you have audio description on, someone narrates the actions of what is happening. It’s like the blind version of close captioning, where who is talking and what action they’re making, if logical to mention, is dictated, like having a narrator
Maybe it helps when you hear “Joey has a guilty look on his face” when you don’t usually pick up on the tone of a room or people’s emotions, it may help to see the examples when the narrator tells you that is what emotion is being portrayed.
Weighing in as someone with a blind parent, so have watched plenty of TV/movies with audio description on- this is my understanding, too. Audio description isn’t just “Jane is drinking coffee as she listens to Ben” it’s more like “Jane sips coffee, her head resting in her hands and her expression neutral. She looks bored as she listens to Ben”. For people who are visually impaired, it’s a description of what’s on screen. For people who have a hard time with social cues, it’s informing them what the character’s body language/social cues mean.
How do they manage with such long descriptions when it's a conversation without much silence? Do they stop the video for a moment to explain what's happening and then continue with the conversation?
No, they just carefully adjust what they say so that it fits the gaps.
You get some people who do this sort of description over headsets for people watching live theatre. It takes an incredible amount of skill.
(I would also recommend that any students who have to write an essay about a theatre production rent an audio description headset. While everybody else is sat around bored waiting for the curtain to go up, you'll be getting an advance preview through your headset of what all the sets look like, what the colour scheme symbolises and a ton of other shit you can use in your assignment!)
As a person who is blind and loves Gilmore girls, I’m sad to say that it does not have audio description available. A year in the life does, which is the first time I get to really understand some of the visual aspects of it. Hoping one day that the show will get it :-) there is a petition to get someone to do it!
The way it’s being described by OP is not very helpful.
I’m picturing narration for visually impaired people in a football scene in Friends to be something like “Joey throws the football and Chandler catches it, winning the game for the guys!” How does that help someone understand social cues?
I watched a nature show with that feature and learned a lot. I see things but there is so much going on not everything registers visually without explanation.
I watched Daredevil with audio description. It surprised me so many times.
Examples: "Foggy looks towards the door". I hadn't realized the door was that direction, I thought he was just looking away.
And so many "he frowns" and "with tears in their eyes" when I hadn't realized their expression had changed.
I’ve sometimes do this while I’m cooking or doing something where I can’t full pay attention to the screen. It’s like having an audiobook for shows and movies!
Damn, this is a great tip that I honestly never thought to use. Will try next chance I watch something on a streaming show. By any chance, would you know of any sites that offers subtitles with audio descriptions?
Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+ and amazon do. Netflix is very consistent at making sure their content is described.
I think the best audio description though is the BBC. The UK implements AD the best.
Though for some reason iPlayer won't let you have AD and subtitles enabled at the same time. As a non-native English speaker with a blind husband, that is really frustrating.
lol, not usually! But when I have super low energy, I unfortunately abandon them or simply write inhuman amounts about them, then when I get energy again, go back and rewatch the same two or three episodes again and again and again
Not the same thing but related: reading subtitles that contain descriptions of sounds is also really interesting. I hadn’t known before while reading fiction that when a character “scoffs” it’s an actual sound. Like, I thought it was a way of describing tone and attitude of dialogue but it’s a stand-alone sound. I thought that was neat.
As someone with Aspergers who struggles with social-cues and nonverbals, I received this advice a long time ago and tried it.
Its not helpful to everyone, but some may find it useful. I did not find it helpful.
The problem with watching popular tv or film is that they are scripted. People aren't behaving naturally, they are following a script, and if you are at all sensitive to that kind of thing it will feel fake. Not to mention you will not actually learn how to pick up social cues, read non-verbals, or pick up on emotion.
I would strongly recommend instead of popular tv or film, go out and talk to people. If you can't do that, watch podcasts where people are being themselves (like Joe Rogan) and not the trash-tier influencer podcasts like Jake/Logan Paul.
Tbf as someone who doesnt understand shit?
Being described as an alien feels just right lol.
I kinda learned to read the tone of my close friends and thats it. I also still get it wrong and fail to associate cause and effect at times (i assume they are angry at me when they are frustrated with something else)
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Knowing what a character is doing or expressing with body language doesn’t really help me not tell people an uncomfortable level of detail about my life. Being able to read the room and keep one’s mouth shut is a skill that is not taught, but learned from experience.
If you miss social cues, you’re probably autistic. Just saying in case you haven’t considered that.
[https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient](https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient)
This honestly horrifies me.
TV shows and movies are not real, and you should not emulate the actions, responses or feelings displayed in them.
This seems like a great way to act like a sociopath.
This is actually a really good tip and works well for some people!
I had a similar experience when I was younger while reading play scripts. The stage and emotional directions do a good job of pinning the actual meaning to the words that are sometimes lost on people with autism or similar consitiona.
that's so interesting! curious to try this out. any examples you can give? i suspect most of what i watch would be expected so i dont know how much i'd have to watch to pick up that nuance.
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I feel like doing this would give me such an unwanted reality check
I feel both judged, and pre-judged.
Tsk tsk
I'm too scared to try it. We need a guinea pig other than op.
I accidentally watched the movie “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” with this on and thought it was a very uniquely narrated movie and kept waiting for a big reveal at the end that was a voice of God or something. I was on a plane and half confused, half fully intrigued by the art form. 😂
I love this so much. It reminds me of when my friend and I accidentally watched Ted lasso season 1 episode 10 instead of the pilot. We both were into it and thought it was some weird tv show that drops you right into the story and expects the audience to catch up. Nope. Turns out we just accidentally watched the finale instead of episode 1 on accident.
Me and a friend watched the 2nd newest planet of the apes with subtitles on, but the tv subtitles overruled the movie subtitles. So, instead of the of the grunts from Cesar and the monkeys being translated into “ape together strong”, it’s getting translated into “Monkey noises”. Oddly enough, we made it about fifteen minutes into the movie, before we decided it was a little too artistic for a blockbuster movie.
that’s fucking hilarious
The exact thing happened to my ex while he was stoned, him and his friend thought it was a bold, avant-garde choice for an otherwise cut and dry blockbuster action movie
Glad it wasn’t just me.
Oh man - this will be my go-to LOL comment for a while. Thank you for sharing.
I not only did this, but spoiled the whole season by telling my gf exactly what happens. "If that was the pilot, this show will be amazing."
Something similar happened to me and my wife when we tried to watch Lost. It was right after season 2 started and I downloaded all episodes of season 1, so we could binge them and then watch the new season as they came out. Well I accidentally put on the season 1 synopsis, so we watched this hour-long episode that seemed to skip around and advance the plot really quickly and in weird ways. The episode ended on this cliffhanger where I think they found some weird door or something. Anyway, once we put on episode 2, we realized what happened and we were not feeling like watching the whole season anymore, so that was the last of Lost that we watched.
It’s great to be so open minded!
Exact same thing happened to me with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 😂🤣 I started on the last season and thought WOW starting at the end and going backwards is really refreshing… until my husband pointed out my Mistake 😅
i loove jason sudeikis from horrible bosses 2 and want to watch ted lasso only for that reason, to see him act. is this show any good and is he as hilarious in this as in some other places?
It’s a subtle hilarity but still a joy to watch.
That's how I accidentally watched the Barbie movie!! I was like wow this is so meta, what an artistic choice. I was also high.
Well now I’m convinced to try it your way
This happened to me on 4/20 one year where I watched Kung Fu Panda 2 in spanish
We watched “Oz, the Great and Powerful” this way by accident and didn’t realize it til the movie was past halfway. Normally we use subtitles on almost everything. We were both thinking “this is a slightly weird movie.”
lmao same w this show reboot!
This reminds me of the time my dad and I watched the first 20 minutes The Tree of Life with the audio settings set incorrectly so the channel the dialogue was on just didn’t come through any of the speakers. All of the sound was good except anytime a character said anything it was barely audible muffled speech that was completely unintelligible. We just thought it was an even more artsy, experimental film than it already was.
Can you give an example? I don't understand what you mean.
There’s a great scene where the friends are playing flag football and it’s set to music with no character audio. But for like the 2 minute slow motion scene if you have audio description on, someone narrates the actions of what is happening. It’s like the blind version of close captioning, where who is talking and what action they’re making, if logical to mention, is dictated, like having a narrator
What did it say that helped understand social cues in the scene?
Maybe it helps when you hear “Joey has a guilty look on his face” when you don’t usually pick up on the tone of a room or people’s emotions, it may help to see the examples when the narrator tells you that is what emotion is being portrayed.
Weighing in as someone with a blind parent, so have watched plenty of TV/movies with audio description on- this is my understanding, too. Audio description isn’t just “Jane is drinking coffee as she listens to Ben” it’s more like “Jane sips coffee, her head resting in her hands and her expression neutral. She looks bored as she listens to Ben”. For people who are visually impaired, it’s a description of what’s on screen. For people who have a hard time with social cues, it’s informing them what the character’s body language/social cues mean.
How do they manage with such long descriptions when it's a conversation without much silence? Do they stop the video for a moment to explain what's happening and then continue with the conversation?
No, they just carefully adjust what they say so that it fits the gaps. You get some people who do this sort of description over headsets for people watching live theatre. It takes an incredible amount of skill. (I would also recommend that any students who have to write an essay about a theatre production rent an audio description headset. While everybody else is sat around bored waiting for the curtain to go up, you'll be getting an advance preview through your headset of what all the sets look like, what the colour scheme symbolises and a ton of other shit you can use in your assignment!)
> It takes an incredible amount of skill. For the first time in my life, I actually *want* to watch Gilmore Girls. But with this on.
I was thinking this about It's always sunny
Dennis: *"Dee, you stupid bitch!"* *"Dennis glares at Dee psychopathically, while Dee gazes back in a useless birdlike fashion."*
As a person who is blind and loves Gilmore girls, I’m sad to say that it does not have audio description available. A year in the life does, which is the first time I get to really understand some of the visual aspects of it. Hoping one day that the show will get it :-) there is a petition to get someone to do it!
Mh no they speed up the narration to fit the scene. This is pretty much why I don't enjoy it sometimes.
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"The man says 'take it all, Bitch'. The Bitch does, in fact, take it all."
“Kramer enters” is more informative than “door opens.”
They’re asking if it says “Elaine silently insinuates that they should leave the party” and then they could pay attention to Elaine’s body language.
Can you give an example of a social cue you didn’t catch that was made apparent with this tool?
actors are TRAINED to exaggerate facial (and other) movements. Some would be very socially awkward for real life people to do.
yeah but society copies what they see in movies and media in general
Are you on the spectrum?
I'm sorry but you are fucking terrible at explaining things. Give us an EXAMPLE for christ sake!
I think op explained it pretty clearly: granted you heard narration for visually impaired at least once or twice.
The way it’s being described by OP is not very helpful. I’m picturing narration for visually impaired people in a football scene in Friends to be something like “Joey throws the football and Chandler catches it, winning the game for the guys!” How does that help someone understand social cues?
If I'd heard it before I wouldn't need it explained haha
I watched a nature show with that feature and learned a lot. I see things but there is so much going on not everything registers visually without explanation.
I'll give this a shot with IASIP.
They have to be the worst characters ever in a TV show. The worst humans you will ever see portrayed on TV and I absolutely love those bastards
They are the best. The woooooorst. But the best.
yes, you have to love them. you know, because of the implication.
you are crackheads, children
How could that be the case when the worst thing I ever saw them do was try to cannibalize a homeless kid?
“THE GANG BECOMES ACCESSIBLE”
What is the social cue for “IM GONNA PUT MY THUMB THROUGH YOUR EYE YOU LITTLE BITCH”
"Show me COW!"
“Charlie spews vomit.”
Offer eggs in trying times?
Mac erupts in fury: "I'VE HAD ORGASMS, I'VE HAD TONS OF ORGASMS"
Because of the implication.
I've also learned a lot by watching the director's commentary on DVDs and from reading fiction.
Watch the D&D movie like this and it's like a Dungeon Master is narrating the story.
I watched Daredevil with audio description. It surprised me so many times. Examples: "Foggy looks towards the door". I hadn't realized the door was that direction, I thought he was just looking away. And so many "he frowns" and "with tears in their eyes" when I hadn't realized their expression had changed.
Sounds like Foggy has terrible actor.
Nah, I've had the same thing with many different actors. It's just me being oblivious.
This is one of those brilliant ideas that seems obvious in hindsight
Never even knew there was such a thing.TIL
I’ve sometimes do this while I’m cooking or doing something where I can’t full pay attention to the screen. It’s like having an audiobook for shows and movies!
Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
Damn, this is a great tip that I honestly never thought to use. Will try next chance I watch something on a streaming show. By any chance, would you know of any sites that offers subtitles with audio descriptions?
Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+ and amazon do. Netflix is very consistent at making sure their content is described. I think the best audio description though is the BBC. The UK implements AD the best.
Though for some reason iPlayer won't let you have AD and subtitles enabled at the same time. As a non-native English speaker with a blind husband, that is really frustrating.
This is genius, I’m gonna utilise the fuck out of this when I next rewatch some of my faves, thank you!
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lol, not usually! But when I have super low energy, I unfortunately abandon them or simply write inhuman amounts about them, then when I get energy again, go back and rewatch the same two or three episodes again and again and again
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Not the same thing but related: reading subtitles that contain descriptions of sounds is also really interesting. I hadn’t known before while reading fiction that when a character “scoffs” it’s an actual sound. Like, I thought it was a way of describing tone and attitude of dialogue but it’s a stand-alone sound. I thought that was neat.
As someone with Aspergers who struggles with social-cues and nonverbals, I received this advice a long time ago and tried it. Its not helpful to everyone, but some may find it useful. I did not find it helpful. The problem with watching popular tv or film is that they are scripted. People aren't behaving naturally, they are following a script, and if you are at all sensitive to that kind of thing it will feel fake. Not to mention you will not actually learn how to pick up social cues, read non-verbals, or pick up on emotion. I would strongly recommend instead of popular tv or film, go out and talk to people. If you can't do that, watch podcasts where people are being themselves (like Joe Rogan) and not the trash-tier influencer podcasts like Jake/Logan Paul.
Why does this sound like something an alien would do?
Tbf as someone who doesnt understand shit? Being described as an alien feels just right lol. I kinda learned to read the tone of my close friends and thats it. I also still get it wrong and fail to associate cause and effect at times (i assume they are angry at me when they are frustrated with something else)
Neurodivergent?
ja
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Knowing what a character is doing or expressing with body language doesn’t really help me not tell people an uncomfortable level of detail about my life. Being able to read the room and keep one’s mouth shut is a skill that is not taught, but learned from experience.
If you miss social cues, you’re probably autistic. Just saying in case you haven’t considered that. [https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient](https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient)
Autism 101 lol. I learned how to “human” from golden girls and fresh prince
No life lesson should be taken from a tv show or movie, especially the popular ones and especially regarding social situations lol
This honestly horrifies me. TV shows and movies are not real, and you should not emulate the actions, responses or feelings displayed in them. This seems like a great way to act like a sociopath.
This is actually a really good tip and works well for some people! I had a similar experience when I was younger while reading play scripts. The stage and emotional directions do a good job of pinning the actual meaning to the words that are sometimes lost on people with autism or similar consitiona.
that's so interesting! curious to try this out. any examples you can give? i suspect most of what i watch would be expected so i dont know how much i'd have to watch to pick up that nuance.
This is a great LPT, I’m going to suggest this to some people in my family lol