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Originally Posted by Captioning Girl
I know I can't change the whole globe of captioning, I also realize there are many issues with captioning, licensing, etc. All I'm trying to do is to make MY captioning suit your needs more. I do know that by the year 2006 all shows (new) must be captioned, and all older shows must be 75% captioned, and by the year 2008 everything that airs on tv must be captioned.
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Oh, that's good news! Now my future children may enjoy the freedom that many of us never did (I got my first CC box at age 6 and I was mesmerized by it! I wasn't accustomed to it until age 8 when I finally understood everything that was spoken... I think a lot of my English came from learning from the CC because I was constantly reading and picked up things about English... so in a way CC was a revolution for the Deaf community like the TV was for the hearing community.)
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Originally Posted by Captioning Girl
For example: When a narrator is talking, his/her captions appear in italics. Is this clear enough to let you know they narrator is talking, or would you prefer if (Narrator) appears before the dialogue? Does anyone have ideas on how to make it more clear? Would you like to see dialogue seperated by color/upper-lower case?
Speaking of upper-lower case, which do you prefer??
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Oooo, italics or normal? Hm.. I think I don't mind italics, as long it said "[NARRATOR:] Blah blah blah"... Because italics may also mean a person is speaking out one's thoughts but no mouth motions is shown. So yes, it is important for me to see who is talking before the dialogue by identifying the person. But unless it is a movie then it may be an entire different issue. It would be annoying to have identified who is speaking etc etc if the person is obviously talking... I think whoever that is NOT in the picture (out of the view) that is talking should be identified in CC for the deaf viewer to understand. A hearing person will identify the actor's voice but we cannot identify a person based on dialogue only thus the need to have the voice being identified.
and upper-case is DEFINITELY my preference, unfortunately, out of habits. I hate it when the CC gets lower-case because it gave me a wrong impression of people whispering. I know it is possible for the person putting "(whispering
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It is great to have people like you that are in CC industry at Alldeaf!
WELCOME!