The Critic Who Keeps Asking Who Else Made It
A blind TV critic reviewed my work eight times this summer. Every time he liked the track, he went looking for the names he couldn’t find. John Stark reviews television at MacTheMovieguy.com. He is blind. He reviews the Audio Description track the same way he reviews the writing, the performances, and the edit, with a […]
Audio Description Performance is Visual Karaoke
Here’s A Video To Add Your Voice To, See The Script Right Below. Karaoke hands you the song with the lead vocal taken out. This hands you a movie scene with the Audio Description taken out, plus the script that goes back in. Play the video below. Read the lines (right below the video on […]
Four Seconds Is Four Seconds
I can hear the anxiety, the fear, the rush when someone has a fast cue. It’s all in the take. Anyone who records to a clock knows that sound. A hard out, a timed read, a line that has to land inside a window someone else set. The gasp is the tell. In Audio Description […]
Three Rooms In Six Weeks
Three at Comic-Con, one on a Zoom call, another on the sidewalk. The same question in each of them, and I could only answer it in one. All of this landed in about six weeks. Nothing was spread out. Three panels at Comic-Con, a panel at Digital Hollywood, and over 200 floats described live at […]
The Track You’ve Never Heard
Blind film and TV audiences experience every superhero battle, every alien landscape, every moment a character’s face changes everything. At Comic-Con 2026, I’m moderating a panel on the people who make that possible. Comic Con 2026: The Track You Never Heard: Audio Description And The Stories Behind The Stories This year, Comic Con International brings […]
No Workshops
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The Work Was Hers
On Thirty Years Of Friendship, A Recording Session, And What Real Support Looks Like On the second day in the studio, I gave my friend a few of the things I teach Audio Description performers. How to land a sentence. How to let breath settle. How to trust the space between the words. She took […]
How I Got To Carnegie Hall
My Name And Our Audio Description Team’s Names, Are In The Credits For An Upcoming Screening At Carnegie Hall. How Do You Get To Carnegie Hall? I know the answer is “Practice, practice, practice.” But I didn’t see this one coming. The Details On June 27, the film I produced Audio Description for, Possibilities, is […]
Machines And The Missing Brain Part
The rise of AI voice is making the human one even more essential In an Audio Description performance scene, a character stands at a window. It’s raining. In the stillness, the expression on the face brings a powerful anticipation – something is about to break. Every sighted viewer in the room feels it, it’s communicated […]
What Happens When The Voice Lands Right
She Did Everything Right The session was clean. Every word in its window. Pacing controlled. Pronunciation clear. When I listened back, I felt nothing. it really wasn’t that I was distracted, but I was just gone from it, like the way you’re gone from a conversation when the other person is technically responding but not […]