Comparing portraits fairly
| Should an audio description of a portrait include a face shape label at all? Our community exhibition needs short spoken descriptions, and I am helping draft them. The current draft describes posture and expression before mentioning the outline of the face. I saved a reference while researching face shapes although a simple category may be less clear than describing the visible proportions. Keeping the recording short should not mean attaching personality assumptions to a face category. I would like every phrase to make clear whether it describes a visible detail or an interpretation. The final recording will be heard without the accompanying written notes, so each term needs to earn its place. I would ask a listener to explain what they pictured after hearing the sentence, then revise any wording that created a more specific impression than the portrait supports. Would you keep a familiar category, replace it with proportions, or omit it when it adds little? |
