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Sean Zdenek

soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric

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Tag: The Happening

Captioning the backchannel: How captions clarify and equalize sounds

Posted on January 11, 2010January 1, 2022 by Sean Zdenek
Screenshot from The Happening (2008)

When sounds in the background are captioned, they come forward. All sounds become equally “loud” on the caption track.

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Posted in CaptioningTagged Backchannel, The Happening2 Comments on Captioning the backchannel: How captions clarify and equalize sounds

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