%0 Journal Article %T Translation as an Alternative Method of Creating Audio Description Scripts %A Jankowska, Anna %J Przekładaniec %V 2014 %R 10.4467/16891864PC.14.002.1709 %N Issue 28 – Audiodeskrypcja %P 23-38 %K audio description, intersemiotic translation, interlingual translation, script creation %@ 1425-6851 %D 2014 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przekladaniec/article/tlumaczenie-jako-alternatywna-metoda-tworzenia-audiodeskrypcji %X Poland, a country of short audio description (AD) tradition, faces two major problems as far as AD implementation is concerned: lack of fi nancing and of experienced audio describers. The article presents the results from a three-stage study carried out in order to prove that translation of scripts written by experienced British audio describers into Polish in not only feasible but also less time- and therefore cost-consuming and in result the translation of audio description scripts could be an alternative method of script creation.