Uma proposta de tradução e outra de elaboração de roteiro de audiodescrição em português para a série animada Bojack Horseman

Abstract

Audiodescription (AD) is one of the Audiovisual Translation (TAV) modes for accessibility. Aiming at accessibility, this senior thesis presents a proposal of producing an AD script in Brazilian Portuguese and translating into Brazilian Portuguese an English-language AD script for the same episode of animated series BoJack Horseman. The aim was to identify the difficulties in a novice audiodescriber-scriptwriter’ process of producing an original script and the differences between the two proposals regarding use of available time and choices of AD elements from technical, cinematographic, grammatical and narrative perspectives. To this end, five analyses were carried out. The first analysis counted the time available for AD and the actual time spent on AD in both the script produced in Portuguese and the script translated into Portuguese. The second analysis, based on scene divisions and identification of the most important elements in each one of them, identified the effectively inserted elements in each script. The third analysis consisted of a description of the scripts regarding the technical, cinematographic, grammatical and narrative perspectives. The fourth analysis categorized the difficulties in the process of script production. Finally, the fifth analysis was based on a post-elaboration questionnaire to assess technical aspects of the process and the final product. In conclusion, several difficulties were found in producing a script from scratch, and an authorial script may considerably differ from a translated script.