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Abstract

The Creation of Audio Description in Animated Feature for Visually Impaired Children was conducted on 3 objectives. First, this creative research was to study and experiment the process of creating an audio described animated feature, second objective was to test and evaluate the aesthetical perception results from the sample groups of 18 visually-impaired children age of 7-9 years old in Bangkok area, and the third one was to compare the results with the group of 6 normallyvisual children age of 7-9 years old in Bangkok area by using the observation and focus group methods. Three episodes from Tom and Jerry cartoon were chosen to be case studies for this research.

The research shows that the process of making an AD in the Tom and Jerry cartoon has many points of detail. 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 shows the evaluation of aesthetical perception result from the sample groups. 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 impressed scenes in much more detail than the 7-year-old group could.