soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric
The release of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens on DVD and Blu-Ray last week gives us a welcome opportunity to take a much closer look at the closed captions.
The BB-8 droid provides an instructive case study. How do the closed captions convey the changing meanings and emotions of the droid’s electronic beeping sounds?
Read the full post on ReadingSounds.net.
How often are sirens described as wailing in closed captioning? What else do sirens do in closed captioning other than wail? Does it matter? An analysis of nonspeech descriptions of siren sounds in a corpus of DVD caption files.
Read the full post on ReadingSounds.net.
When speaker IDs, musical lyrics, and sound descriptions have their own distinctive stylistic treatments, they can be extracted from closed caption files and studied as separate units of discourse. The only efficient and practical way to study hundreds or thousands of sound descriptions at one time is to use a program to separate speech from non-speech.
Continue reading “Stylistic standards for closed captioning and data mining”
![A frame from Prophecy 3: The Ascent featuring a cityscape at night and the closed caption: [SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]](https://seanzdenek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Prophecy3-SirensWailingInDistance.jpg)
