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Sean Zdenek

soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric

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Tag: Russian

Subtitles as visual art

Posted on October 8, 2015August 11, 2020 by Sean Zdenek
An animated gif from Night Watch featuring a subtitle that screams in large typeface as the subtitles surround and follow the speaker as he crashes against the wall. Subtitles: NO! NO!!! STOP!!!

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.

Read the full post on ReadingSounds.net.

Posted in Captioning, Visual DesignTagged animated subtitles, Night Watch, Russian, Timur Bekmambetov

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