Captioning and Descriptive Video - make them in demand!
I have a proposition for you guys. I want to get a huge demand out for Captioning for movies playing in theatres.
The town I live in has a movie theatre but it doesn't have captioning at all. We will usually drive either 50 minutes or 65 minutes to the nearest two cineplexes that have captioning just so I can truly enjoy a movie in theatres. The cineplex we go to the most, in London - Ontario, has two actual theatres that can play movies with captioning, but they only ever show ONE movie (if that) with captioning at a time. And something even more frustrating...even fewer movies are shown with Descriptive Video!! (For visually impaired people so they can enjoy the movie as well.)
And 85% of the time the captioning craps out and is faulty anyway. I'd love to know how consistent DV is...
My thought is this: if everytime you go to the theatre, whether you're deaf/blind or not, you ask for captioning or Rear Window Captioning or "Descriptive Video" as it is called in these parts, which would increase the demand. If they are showing a movie with captioning, ask for the receiver, even if you don't use it. The more they realize these are needed, hopefully the more movies they show with these and the more theatres that become equipped with RWC & DV!
So if you would do this, I'd be soooo grateful and other hard of hearing/deaf people + visually impaired/blind people would be too I'm sure!
It may not sound like a big deal, but it's honestly really awesome to see movies in theatres. Especially movies you've been waiting for, forever! Waiting that extra 6 months for them to be released on DVD is never fun. It is frustrating because the technology already exists but it isn't being used to its fullest!
I'm sure some of you may feel this is a silly, shallow thing, but I think it'd be awesome if we could get more cineplexes as disability-friendly!
Spread the word! Thanks for listening! :]
The town I live in has a movie theatre but it doesn't have captioning at all. We will usually drive either 50 minutes or 65 minutes to the nearest two cineplexes that have captioning just so I can truly enjoy a movie in theatres. The cineplex we go to the most, in London - Ontario, has two actual theatres that can play movies with captioning, but they only ever show ONE movie (if that) with captioning at a time. And something even more frustrating...even fewer movies are shown with Descriptive Video!! (For visually impaired people so they can enjoy the movie as well.)
And 85% of the time the captioning craps out and is faulty anyway. I'd love to know how consistent DV is...
My thought is this: if everytime you go to the theatre, whether you're deaf/blind or not, you ask for captioning or Rear Window Captioning or "Descriptive Video" as it is called in these parts, which would increase the demand. If they are showing a movie with captioning, ask for the receiver, even if you don't use it. The more they realize these are needed, hopefully the more movies they show with these and the more theatres that become equipped with RWC & DV!
So if you would do this, I'd be soooo grateful and other hard of hearing/deaf people + visually impaired/blind people would be too I'm sure!
It may not sound like a big deal, but it's honestly really awesome to see movies in theatres. Especially movies you've been waiting for, forever! Waiting that extra 6 months for them to be released on DVD is never fun. It is frustrating because the technology already exists but it isn't being used to its fullest!
I'm sure some of you may feel this is a silly, shallow thing, but I think it'd be awesome if we could get more cineplexes as disability-friendly!
Spread the word! Thanks for listening! :]