If your front of house staff are able to use British Sign Language, your cinema will be much more welcoming for Deaf audience members. We worked with VS1 Productions to produce these videos that cover the most common interactions with audience members. Please feel free to share these videos and use them regularly. You could hold a refresher of the key signs at the beginning of each shift to reinforce these lessons. Click here to see the full Youtube playlist.
The first video below covers the key signs for (click through for individual videos covering the topics):
- Box office (e.g. ‘Can I help you?’, ‘Welcome’ etc)
- Useful signs (e.g. ‘Slowly’, ‘British Sign Language’ etc)
- Food (e.g. ‘Popcorn’, ‘Cake’ etc)
- Wine (e.g. ‘Red wine’, ‘Champagne’ etc)
- Spirits (e.g. ‘Shot’ ‘Gin & Tonic’ etc)
- Draught (beer, cider etc)
- Cold and hot drinks (e.g. ‘Coffee’, ‘Sugar’ etc)
- Soft drinks (e.g. ‘Coca Cola’ ‘Lemonade’ etc)
- Café bar (e.g. ‘Toilet’ ‘Bar closed’ etc)
- Greetings (e.g. ‘Good morning’, ‘Enjoy the film’)
- Cinema-related signs (e.g. ‘Subtitles’, ‘Film’ etc)
- Questions (e.g. ‘How long?’ ‘Where?’ etc)
- Finger spelling (i.e. the letters of the alphabet)
- Everyday signs (days of the week and ‘next week’ etc)
- Numbers (1-100)