Category: Speaker IDs

February 24, 2012

Humanizing nameless speakers

Speaker IDs can humanize nameless characters…

Categories Captioning/Speaker IDs

March 16, 2011

Captioned irony: How captions manipulate narrative time and viewers’ knowledge

Inspired by the notion of dramatic irony, I offer a definition of “captioned irony.”

Categories Captioning/Non-Speech/Speaker IDs

November 12, 2010

If it weren’t for Speaker IDs, I’d have no idea what’s going on

An analysis of one scene from Moon (2009) starring Sam Rockwell. The scene’s captions make use of Speaker IDs to identify speakers who are off-screen. But in doing so, the Speaker IDs fill in a major piece of the narrative puzzle.

Categories Captioning/Non-Speech/Speaker IDs

November 21, 2009

Overcaptioning: Which sounds are significant?

Which sounds are significant? How does the captioner choose which sounds to caption? Are some captions unnecessary? Why isn’t it possible to caption every sound in the environment?

Categories Captioning/Non-Speech/Speaker IDs

August 14, 2009

If movie characters could read closed captions, they’d glimpse the future

Caption users sometimes know what’s happening before the characters themselves. In this way, captions tell the future.

Categories Captioning/Speaker IDs/Timing