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Sean Zdenek

soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric

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Closed captions as identity markers (leitmotifs)

Posted on October 9, 2015June 25, 2019 by Sean Zdenek
Alien fighting Predator in the rain at night in this frame from Aliens vs Predator: Requiem

When the same nonspeech caption is repeatedly associated with a specific character or recurring context, it comes to serve as a kind of leitmotif for that character or context.

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Posted in Captioning, Non-SpeechTagged Aliens vs. Predator, leitmotif, nonspeech

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