Check out my new article on enhanced captioning, just published in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedaogogy (23.1, 2018): “Designing captions: Disruptive experiments with typography, color, icons, and effects.”
Continue reading “Published: Designing Captions — A new article on enhanced captioning”
Can we open closed captioning up to greater experimentation through the use of color, icons, typography, and basic animations to convey meaning?
Read the full article at DigitalRhetoricCollaborative.org.
A comparison of the default yellow closed captions on Hulu.com with the yellow skin color of the animated characters on The Simpsons.
Read the full post on ReadingSounds.net.
Subtitles in foreign language films don’t have to be visually boring, uninspiring, or ugly. But too often, that’s exactly what they are. An analysis of the English subtitles in Night Watch.
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When fictional characters break through the fourth wall to comment on the subtitles…
Continue reading ““Subtitles I like to ride on”: When medium awareness extends to subtitles”
Even when music is intended to deceive, it needs to be captioned if it’s instrumental to the genre.
Continue reading “Genre-defining sounds, even when they lie to us”
Should poems and other quoted material be captioned as they were originally written?
