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A TED talk-affiliated lecture: TEDxIslay - Wayne Betts Jr. - Deaf Lens
An eighteen and a half minute talk (in ASL) about how the use of a visual language in his everyday life influences how he uses the visual language of film-making to tell a story (Closed Caption Default Track, English). Posted here because I have the impression that I have many film buffs in my circles who are generally interested in How Things are Made, and the ways to Tell Stories, even if you're not interested in American Sign Language in particular.
And then, there are the two films he's made that he cites in his talk:
Vital Signs (3 mins. 19 secs). This one has a captioning track that mentions music and sound effects, but it's actually silent. I suspect that's because the person who uploaded it is actually deaf and would have no way of knowing. But since this was made by a Deaf man for a Deaf audience, the fact that sound is missing doesn't change much.
and:
Gallaudet: The Film (8 mins. 48 secs). This never had any sound to begin with. But he's translated the sign language into English, and embedded it into the film itself, in a way that I think is really cool.
An eighteen and a half minute talk (in ASL) about how the use of a visual language in his everyday life influences how he uses the visual language of film-making to tell a story (Closed Caption Default Track, English). Posted here because I have the impression that I have many film buffs in my circles who are generally interested in How Things are Made, and the ways to Tell Stories, even if you're not interested in American Sign Language in particular.
And then, there are the two films he's made that he cites in his talk:
Vital Signs (3 mins. 19 secs). This one has a captioning track that mentions music and sound effects, but it's actually silent. I suspect that's because the person who uploaded it is actually deaf and would have no way of knowing. But since this was made by a Deaf man for a Deaf audience, the fact that sound is missing doesn't change much.
and:
Gallaudet: The Film (8 mins. 48 secs). This never had any sound to begin with. But he's translated the sign language into English, and embedded it into the film itself, in a way that I think is really cool.
