Scripting audio description for film, TV, and video games with Jenna Jennissary

The Not-Boring Tech Writer · Oct 1, 2026 · 1h 1m · transcript

In this episode, I talk with Jenna Jennissary, a producer at Descriptive Video Works who specializes mostly in video games and still gets to write and perform audio description herself. We talk about how a Reddit post about a scene in “God of War” led her from regulatory affairs into audio description, where the field’s standards come from when no central body sets them, how tight timing makes writers experts at saying the same thing in fewer syllables, and what it takes to break in as a new audio description writer.

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Jenna and I start with what audio description is: a scripted narrator who…