What did the ITC's 2000 guidance say about how to write and record an audio description (tense, what to describe, sound levels)?
The ITC's May 2000 audio description guidance is a describer's manual: seven steps from choosing and viewing the programme through drafting, reviewing, setting the programme sound level, recording and checking. It asks for present-tense description (continuous for ongoing action), not talking over sound effects, and lowering the programme level under description. It is historical guidance from the start of UK digital TV, not current Ofcom policy.
The ITC's May 2000 audio description guidance is a describer's manual: seven steps from choosing and viewing the programme through drafting, reviewing, setting the programme sound level, recording and checking. It asks for present-tense description (continuous for ongoing action), not talking over sound effects, and lowering the programme level under description. It is historical guidance from the start of UK digital TV, not current Ofcom policy.
Curator qualifications: Guidance read 2026-10-22; nothing described or subtitled.
Limitations: Guidance read 2026-10-22; nothing described or subtitled.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] The ITC's May 2000 audio description guidance is a describer's manual: seven steps from choosing and viewing the programme through drafting, reviewing, setting the programme sound level, recording and checking. It asks for present-tense description (continuous for ongoing action), not talking over sound effects, and lowering the programme level under description. It is historical guidance from the start of UK digital TV, not current Ofcom policy. · locator: ITC Guidance On Standards for Audio Description (May 2000) source
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