AMI Today

Feature Guest: JJ Hunt – August 9th, 2024

Episode Summary

On Friday’s edition of AMI Today, host Jacob Shymanski spoke with audio describer JJ Hunt. They talked about all things audio description, including the process, highlights, and evolution of the industry.

Episode Notes

On Friday’s edition of AMI Today, host Jacob Shymanski spoke with audio describer JJ Hunt. They talked about all things audio description, including the process, highlights, and evolution of the industry. 

Highlights:

• JJ Hunt Introduction with Nisreen Abdel-Majid (00:00)
• Welcome to JJ Hunt (3:20)
• What is audio description? (4:00)
• How did JJ’s career begin? (5:45) 
• What was the first piece of audio description that JJ created? (9:30)
• Step-by-step walkthrough of how to describe a movie (11:56)
• Special skills that audio describers need to do their job (19:28)
• What needs to be described, and what doesn’t? (21:54)
• Audio description philosophies (25:18)