“Nothing about us, without us”. This Latin slogan is very relevant in the Civil Rights Movements across the world.
We decided to fully embrace this statement and here is how: As stated before, many of the abovementioned innovations and ideas were made possible thanks to the conversations we had with the impaired people who collaborated with us.
Who are they and in what departments did they help?
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He was a marketing specialist before losing his sight. He led the marketing department of Blues Time.
Image 51: Vicente during Blues Time’s shooting at Loco Club Concert Hall. By Miguel Serrano.
The idea of Blues Time came to me in February 2017.
My grandfather was suffering from severe dementia and living with him was emotionally challenging.
I wrote the first draft of the film, but all my energy was focused on XMILE at that time, so I filed it away and moved on for some months. But, after the talk at the Senate, in summer 2017, I was ready to blow off the dust from Blues Time’s draft.
The main reason was not only to share my personal experience about my grandfather’s; I wanted to test the new ways of improving audio-visual accessibility that I had actively been promoting for almost half a year. I needed to be sure that what we had fought for was worth the blood, sweat and tears.
Image 39: Blues Time’s main character Fa and her pocket watch. By Miguel Serrano.
During 2016 and 2017, we also achieved other goals worth mentioning:
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Cardinal Herrera CEU University undertook research about the use of the five senses in XMILE. Over 200 people were invited to participate as members of the audience in the research screenings, which had been adapted for accessibility.
Image 32: Audience members taking part in the research after watching XMILE.
Parallel to the investigation and screenings that we planned across the first half of 2017, we included some interactive experiences in Spanish Sign Language. The XMILE experience was so unique that we received a lot of media attention. I will explain those interactive experiences in the following chapter.
As a consequence, in June of 2017, politicians sat up, took notice of our project, and called me to give a talk at the Spanish Senate.
Imagine we were going to shoot a movie and nobody from the team would communicate with each other. The actors would not get the script; the cinematographer would not know how the director designed the sequences… we would just meet the day of the shooting and shout: Action!
What a nightmare!
Image 25: A break during the shooting of Blues Time at Loco Club Concert Hall. By Miguel Serrano.
Planning is mandatory while creating a film, and regarding audio description (AD) and subtitles for the Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing (SDH) we could do better.
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