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Roy Samuelson helps companies turn accessibility into unforgettable storytelling. His newsletter shares sharp insights on inclusive content, the craft of audio description, and how human + AI voice can build trust, clarity, and emotional impact.
Hey Reader, A picture is worth a thousand words, right? Film runs at 24 frames per second. So every second of a movie is 24,000 words to choose from, and the Audio Description writer gets to use about nine of them. Nine. And they still come back with something close to poetry. I don't know how they do it. The space we Audio Description performers have is still sometimes like two seconds. Most cues that we read off of that Audio Description script live between two lines of dialogue. The writer...
Hey Reader, I had the best six weeks of my career and I still had to talk myself into getting on the train. That part I don't usually put in writing. Carnegie Hall, where my name was in the Playbill and up on the screen for a film I produced the Audio Description for. San Diego Pride, over 200 floats described live, with Joshua Loya. Three panels at Comic-Con, including one where I coached alongside Scott Brick, TJ Storm and Eric Martin, and one called Comics for the Blind, where a Braille...
Hey Reader, I know a voice actor, call him Marcus (He's not real, but a composite of a few actors I've coached over the years). Great setup: three microphones, four software packages, notebooks full of character voices. He’s also exhausted. Every morning he'd look at it all and think: work on ADR today, oh, or, review the signature voices notes; but wait there's also that demo reel, or reach out to that casting director he keeps meaning to call. He'd do a little of everything and finish...