With the Diamond Jubilee pretty much wrapped up and the Push Me team away from the editing suite with our first films now completed in subtitled and audio described versions, it’s been interesting to dip into the media coverage of the Queen’s four day celebrations with some of this accessible thinking on our minds.

Much of the coverage, particularly on the Thames was narration that routinely incorporated audio descriptive narrative as part of the established communication code for the weekend’s events, not so different to how news and sports events are usually broadcast. So with lots different people placed at different vantage points along and in the water, we got a fuller picture that wove in the pomp and circumstance and the finer details indecipherable to the naked eye.

The very nature of the 90 second Push Me films – means that audio description doesn’t always sit easily within the fabric of our films and so we are shaping introductory paragraphs as scene setters that describe the different locations and what our artists are doing in those spaces and places which wouldn’t be naturally evident through sound alone. We then, through the films listen to the artists telling us what has inspired their Unlimited commissions.  Overall we want the experience of our films to scene set too: pushing the way we all think, not just about the art or the artists but the different ways we can make these things more accessible to the masses.