Right to Culture and Sport

Awareness-raising video about EBU's requirements for the right to culture and sport, according to UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (crpd) Article 30 and Sustainable Development Goal 10.3.

Scene-by-scene description:

This animation uses a palette of non-subject specific orange, blue, purple and pink colours, to illustrate the verbal message of the video.

A round icon in pink, of a person reaching towards a heart, above their head, appears next to the title The Right to Culture and Sport. The icon represents the love for life that doing sports or visiting a cultural event can bring.

At the words, This is a message to all politicians, decision makers and journalists, a blue envelope lands in the hand of a dark-haired male in a blue shirt and orange tie-a politician. Next to him a female with a lick of purple hair, trendy red rimmed glasses and a pink scarf- a decision maker in sport and culture. To her right, a woman with thick wavy blue hair and round glasses, in a blue top with a white collar-a journalist.

To illustrate how most people take access to culture and sport for granted, a footballer in a stadium, runs after the ball and a second player goes to tackle him. The game is being watched on a large TV screen, by a young couple sitting in their living room. The woman presses the remote and changes to an arts programme where a young man nods admiringly at an abstract painting. As the audio explains that films, television and museums contribute to our mental and physical wellbeing, helping to stimulate imagination and build relationships, two interlocking cogs in a diagram of the man's brain start to turn and his heart pulses at the arrival of a blushing young woman. As a couple, they go on a bike ride in a park and smile at each other.

Three small boys wearing goggles and arm bands are leaning on the edge of a swimming pool at the shallow end, as a female instructor, uses her hands to demonstrate how they should kick their legs in the water. Two of the boys are happily following her instructions but the third boy's legs hang limply. A question mark pops up above his head and he looks around unhappily because he doesn't understand what she means.

The right to inclusive culture and sport covered in sustainable development goal 10.3, is identified by four stylised hands surrounding a large equal sign.

A hand pulls article 30 from a row of United Nations Conventions documents on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

In a theatre audience watching a period play on stage, a man with dark curly hair seated at the end of a row, is wearing a headset. Sitting next to his sighted female companion, he is receiving a live audio description of the performance through the headset.

On a sunny day, a young blind man rides tandem on a bicycle with a sighted friend in the front seat. At a goal ball stall, inviting people to sign up to play, the blind man with his guide dog nearby, is manning the stall, and offering opaque glasses to people who wish to play. A dark-haired young woman with low vision, takes a pair. Dressed in goal ball kit and wearing the glasses, she lies on the court in readiness. She lunges at the oncoming ball, preventing the other side from scoring.

As the politician, decision maker and journalist are asked to play their part in enabling audio description for film, TV, theatre, museums and on-line content, to become a legal requirement, a pulsating light bulb pops up above each of their heads.

The curly haired bearded blind man sits on a sofa with his female companion in front of a wall TV. As she watches the screen, he listens to an audio description of what is on screen, through his headset.

On a braille panel, he reads information about the classical temple he and his companion are visiting with other tourists. The tourist guide hands the woman with low vision, an information leaflet in large print.

In the swimming pool, the instructor shows the boy with low vision, how to kick his legs, moving them up and down in the water.

Now the boy swims the crawl with confidence and at a visually impaired friendly swimming event, he makes the victory sign as he stands on the winner's podium in the number one position.

A finger presses the forward arrow on a mobile phone headed Right to Culture and Sport.

In a museum the woman with low vision presses a button next to an abstract painting to listen to the audio description of the work. With a smile, the young man with his guide dog by his side, touches the contours of a large sculpted bust and an exclamation mark pops up above his head. The bearded blind man holding his white cane touches the back of the sculpted head as the museum guide talks about the sculpture. The logo and website of the EBU ends the video.