[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: description of visuals of the CBS segment re bookshare.
- From: "Katie Hill" <kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:19:21 -0800
Great description Cindy! I will have to go and listen to the clip since I
missed it on the news here:)
Katie Hill
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: description of visuals of the CBS segment re
bookshare.
Enough of you asked me to post this that I am.
A printed transcript and a video can be viewed on the
CBS news site at this URL: http://tinyurl.com/2e7wxh
In fact, though I took notes from the segment my
husband taped, I played the online video over and over
to fill in details I hadn't written down. I don't know
how long they'll keep it on the site but hopefully
it's still there if those of you who missed it want to
hear/see it.
o.k.--Here is what I saw.
My description goes in the order of the program.
First Jim Fruchterman is walking on a lovely path with
broad green lawn on either side, apparently in Palo
Alto-past a tall purple building. He's shorter than I
remember from meeting him last year at CSUN-I must be
thinking of Guido.
Jim is round-face and wears glasses. He has a very
open, nice expression. I think he looks young-younger
than I expected from his position as the founder (I
think) of benetech. He has brown hair and is very nice
looking, by which I mean not only that he's a
nice/pleasant-looking man but he looks like a nice
man. He has a lovely smile.
He was wearing a beautiful multicolored striped
long-sleeved sweater (which I would love to have) over
a blue shirt, and I think dark blue pants to match the
stripe in his sweater.
>From outside he and the reporter moved into the
office. I was surprised at how many desks/carrels
there were. For some reason I imagined a small crowded
space with a very large scanner. At one point there
was a picture of what I suppose with the scanner,
because there was a pile of white printed sheets being
fed very quickly into what looked like a large
printer. Perhaps Carrie can tell us if that was a
scanner or if it was a machine that turns validated
book pages into BRF and/or Daisy.
There was a quick shot of Carrie at her computer
typing something in, probably validating. (Carrie, you
can tell us what you were doing). Carrie has short
blond hair and glasses and was wearing a purple
long-sleeved sweater and brown pants.
Back to Jim in the office. After walking down an aisle
past carrels with desks with computers, some of which
had people working at them, there was a shot of John
Glass (he wasn't identified, but since Lisa told us he
was to be in it I assume it was he). Some of you knew
John before he joined bookshare, so you know he's
blind. The picture focused on his hands reading
Braille and reading aloud from the book.. I was
guessing that it was a Braille notebook, because it
was small and oblong., but then it also had a round
speaker at the back of it and he demonstrated that the
bookshare books can also be "read" by sound, and we
heard the same sentences read by the machine. Is that
Daisy reader? I have no idea what either a Braille
notebook or Daisy reader look like. John, perhaps
you'd be good enough to explain what you were using.
John was wearing a blue-and-green plaid shirt and
beige or tan pants.. His hair is dirty blond, he has
nicely manicured fingers (a lot better-looking than
mine) and what looks like a college ring on the ring
finger of his right hand.
Then we come to Brian Miller. He lives in Alexandria,
VA, and is seen walking. along a sidewalk with snow on
either side. He uses a white cane. He's wearing a
dark, hooded winter jacket and white pants. He has
dark, almost black hair receding from the forehead
but full and wavy everywhere else. He has a full,
longish face-at least longer than Jim's, which is
round.
Then we see him at his computer listening to a
newspaper (I think that's what it was, since there's
then a list of the newspapers available and he says
that he downloads newspapers as well as books. Brian,
correct me if I'm wrong)l He's wearing a long-sleeved
dark red shirt with double-white stripes.
Then we see Brian walking into the King Street Station
for his commute to D.C. (What do you do, Brian?) He's
wearing is dark jacket and white pants. I suspect the
filming of Brian and his commute was separate from the
filming in his home).
Then we see him sitting on a beige sofa or love seat
with his wife. Behind him are shelves of things that
look like CDs and/or LPs. and something brick-part of
a fireplace? Brian's wearing a dark blue long-sleeved
shirt. (It looks soft and comfortable-I'd like one
like that, too). Then we see him on the train using
earphones listening to something-the NY Times?-while
other commuters are reading their papers.
Back to Brian at home. I don't know when he became
blind, but his eyes are wide open and he focuses on
the reporter when he speaks. He's one who a person
probably wouldn't know was blind if he didn't have the
cane.
Then we meet his wife, Priscilla McKinley, sitting
next to Brian on the sofa. She has dark
shoulder-length hair parted in the middle and is
wearing a lovely red long-sleeved turtleneck sweater.
She has a small, roundish face.
Then we see Jim in what looks like a college classroom
standing in front of a pinkish chalkboard with figures
on it. He's talking to an assorted group of students
sitting in front of him. Now he's wearing a red
long-sleeved sweater over a blue shirt, and gray
pants.
Another shot of Jim and the reporter walking on the
path in Palo Alto.
Finally we see Brian standing on the platform waiting
for the train and then the shot of him in the train
listening to the paper.
The opening and closing shots were of the city of Palo
Alto from above-pretty white buildings and blue sky
Cindy
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