Toy Story was Rebecca Odum’s first introduction into the world of audio description, movie night at a camp for the blind. Born premature and becoming blind from Retinopathy of Prematurity ROP, even when reading large print and screens was still possible and before becoming a screen reader user, movies and television have been a part of Rebecca’s life.

What is audio description, AD QC, or quality control? This is the field our guest is training in. What constitutes good audio description anyway?

This week on Outlook we speak with Odum about how audio description AD can benefit not only blind people and why it matters and about Odum’s writing background and early vivid imagination. Rebecca also shares about studying ASL or American sign language and being a member of an all sign language choir.

And we discuss the documentary one of our co-hosts and this week’s guest recently trained on, for the art and specialty of audio describing and quality control, a beautiful doc about musician and composer Grace Fisher who acquired a childhood virus in her teens. Fisher is now quadriplegic and has started The Grace Fisher Foundation.

Check out more information on Amazing Grace and what Grace herself is up to with the foundation:

https://www.gracefisherfoundation.org

Follow Rebecca on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/rwritesfantasy

Find her book here:

https://www.amazon.ca/Lightning-Proof-Rebecca-Ann-ebook/dp/B07K65BKN6/

And take a listen to her podcast, Spirit of Avalor, about her favourite Disney series:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spirit-of-avalor-podcast/id1463065687