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Sean Zdenek

soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric

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  • Accessible Podcasting
    • Introduction
    • Limiting Access: Technical access in the Podcasting Bible
    • “On the Fly” Podcasting
    • Podcasting 2.0: Towards an accessible Web
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Tag: Sigourney Weaver

Genre-defining sounds, even when they lie to us

Posted on July 14, 2011August 15, 2018 by Sean Zdenek
The Alien from Alien 3

Even when music is intended to deceive, it needs to be captioned if it’s instrumental to the genre.

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Posted in Captioning, Music, Visual DesignTagged Alien 3, ambience, gaming, genre, horror, lying, Sigourney Weaver, Soundcloud3 Comments on Genre-defining sounds, even when they lie to us

The ultimate guide to closed captioning

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