Abstract:
The Creation of Audio Description in Animated Feature for Visually Impaired Children was conducted on 2 objectives. Firstly, this creative research was to study and experiment the process of creating an audio described animated feature, and second objective was to test and evaluate the aesthetical perception resulting from the sample groups of visually impaired children age of 7 9 years old in Bangkok area, using the observation and focus group methods. Three episodes from Tom and Jerry cartoon were as case studies for this research. The research shows that the process of making the Audio Description in the Tom and Jerry cartoon is detailed. The process starts with (1) analyzing and choosing types of word and sentence those suit the age 7 9 years old sample groups linguistic development, then (2) analyzing the chosen episodes and decide the need-to-communicate points, (3) preparing for script writing. After that, the vocal skill is needed for (4) communicating all the emotions and aesthetics from the picturized cartoon to make it vocalized, making the voice a performance.The second part says about the sample groups evaluation of aesthetical perception results. All the groups could tell all of the stories precisely, but the sudden-mischief gags were omitted. Most of the groups could recognize the moral concept from the cartoon, only if it was placed in the AD narrated scripts. And, the groups of 8 and 9 years old children could communicate and picturize their impressive scenes in much more detail than the 7-year-old group could.