Sean Zdenek

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Category: Manner

A frame from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World featuring Michael Cera, Ellen Wong and the caption: (In slow-motion): Wow!
CaptioningPosted onMarch 31, 2012August 15, 2018

Drunk speech but sober captions: How manner captions do the heavy lifting

How writing homogenizes speech and how the non-speech manner caption attempts to re-embody speech…

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Charlie Sheen in Two and a Half Men (2004)
CaptioningPosted onJuly 4, 2011August 15, 2018

In a manner of speaking

When a character’s accent is meaningful or when a scene or line of dialogue hinges on how a character speaks, manner of speech needs to be indicated in the closed captions.

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The definitive user’s guide to captioned media

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