What comedy needs from captions
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Joe Clark responds:
Posted: September 11th, 2009 at 12:52 pm →
In Line 21 I would just use three lines:
I’m just faxing…
my dad…
a rundown.
Or an overlay caption, seldom used.
Nothing krazy, please.
Bill responds:
Posted: September 12th, 2009 at 6:55 am →
I think the “faxing… my dad… a rundown” is the way I’ve read it to be in captioning documentation. I
Question tho – isn’t the captioning style you used, more of the “live captioning” style, as opposed to one that was post-production? Getting the timing in live captioning would be harder.
What comedy really needs?
Have you watched “Late Night with Conan”, or most “E” tv shows? I watch with sound down and captions on at night, so as not to disturb others – but the timing on these shows is awful. I can’t even watch, it drives me so crazy. I know there is someone who has the time to fix that between when the shows were taped, and when they were aired!
Shon Bacon responds:
Posted: October 30th, 2009 at 7:30 pm →
At first, I thought the punctuation approach might be the better choice, but then I ultimately chose the timing approach because the “my dad” is that punch to the punch line and getting it all at once as in the punctuation approach lessens that punch for me.
The kinetic approach seemed a bit too “artsy” for me.