ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

12 years, 2 months ago - Ian Richardson

Programme makers are missing out on business if they don't routinely include sub-titles. The longer the expected life-span of the developed world grows, the greater the number of TV viewers with varying degrees of hearing problems. Add to this, the naturalistic style of delivering dialogue in TV and film dramas in the past few decades.

My wife and I were recently given the box set of "Boomtown". It looked interesting, but came without sub-titles. We could clearly understand several of the key characters, but not two or three of the others. We gave up after 15 minutes because it was obvious that we were missing important chunks of dialogue. So, the box set is being returned.

As I said at the beginning, that's missed business.

Ian R

12 years, 2 months ago - Dianne Thomas

Dear Daniel

Thanks so much for your generosity to me regarding my request to SP, it would prove an invaluable add on if it does get Shooters approval.

I personally am enjoying typing up the dialogue from my documentaries at present, and as you have pointed out that it takes some time but knowing that it will assist so many more people in the wider community truly means so much to me.

Thanks for telling me that my YouTube link was not working...

http://www.whitelyonfilms.com/

I recommend you view my White Lyon Films website given above.

Each production that I have completed has a link to both SP and YouTube. Please just click on buttons given.

I personally have never done Audio Descriptions before, are they easy to do? And do you need any special software in order to create them?

Thanks once again for your positive feedback, it is truly appreciated.

Kind regards

Dianne

12 years, 2 months ago - Dianne Thomas

Dear Elisar

I still have a while to go before I have captioned all of my films, but I'm working on it...

http://www.youtube.com/user/digbygpl

12 years, 2 months ago - Daniel Cormack

Well done Dianne Thomas for raising this issue and I hope SP do incorporate a CC feature.

I think a lot of filmmakers are deterred from creating closed captions because they think it will be really expensive. Actually, you can do it yourself quite easily if you can bear to watch your film again, note down the timecodes and master the basic art of getting the dialogue into a captionable space for a readable amount of time. Not only that they are often part of the deliverables for films funded by the major public bodies and so it's better to learn about them sooner rather than later.

Unfortunately, the films I have online haven't got closed captions (even though I have the files for them): the BBC Film Network where they live was going to introduce the feature, but then the site got mothballed.

:(

Another thing worth considering is audio description for blind or partially-sighted viewers. It's fascinating to read someone's written description of your visual storytelling or even to write and perform your own.

One small thing, Dianne; your Google link didn't work and gave a 404 error. Is it just me?

12 years, 2 months ago - Elisar Cabrera

Recently just captioned all 6 eps of my webseries http://www.youtube.com/watch3some