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ATA 60 Recap: Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal

February 24, 2020 By Webmaster

By Joel Snyder Audio Description is a kind of literary art form. It’s a type of poetry–a haiku. It provides a translation—a verbal version of the visual: the visual is made verbal, and aural, and oral. Using words that are succinct, vivid, and imaginative, we convey the visual image that is not fully accessible to […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, accessibility, Audiodescription, blind, conferences, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, Joel Snyder

ATA 60 Recap: Roma: Intralinguistic conflicts – In Essence

January 29, 2020 By Webmaster

By Luz Gómez Interest in this in presentation arose when a variety of media sources focused on the linguistic and cultural angles of the Iberian subtitles in Alfonso Cuaron’s film Roma, and their subsequent infamy. Although a non-Spanish speaker might consider this matter superficial, it’s an excellent example of how two variants of a language […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, conferences, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, Luz Gómez, Subtitling

ATA 60 Recap: Audiovisual Accessibility: What Translators Need to Know

January 29, 2020 By Webmaster

By Gabriela Ortiz This article is a summary of the presentation at the ATA Conference in Palm Springs and, as the title suggests, it is an introduction to audiovisual accessibility. It is arranged as a series of questions and answers to walk you through this field. Why should we care about accessibility? Two notions are […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, accessibility, Accessible Filmmaking, Audiodescription, Closed Captioning, conferences, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, Gabriela Ortiz, live subtitling, Mara Campbell, SDH, Sign language, Subtitling, Surtitles

ATA 60 Recap: Cloud Subtitling: An Overview

January 29, 2020 By Webmaster

By Pablo Fernández Moriano Desktop subtitling tools have been with us for quite a while now, but what about the cloud? Is it possible to complete the subtitling process entirely online and with professional results? How well do the current online tools cater to the requirements of professional subtitling? What aspects and functionalities are important […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, conferences, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, freeware, Pablo Fernández Moriano, software, Subtitling

ATA 60 Recap: Deadpool 2: translating an Rrated film from English into Castilian Spanish

January 29, 2020 By Webmaster

By Pablo Fernández Moriano When translating a film like Deadpool 2, several issues come into play that are determined both by the nature of the dubbing process and the very nature of the film. The dubbing process Spain is traditionally a dubbing country. Although subtitles are growing in popularity, the main localization process for distributing […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5 Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, Adaptation, Castilian Spanish, conferences, Deadpool, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, Dubbing, Pablo Fernández Moriano

On the Audiovisual Radar: ATA 60

January 12, 2020 By Webmaster

AVD-Related Presentations and Workshops on ATA60 October 24, 2019 Are you a CAD (Certified Audio Describer)? Joel Snyder This session offered an overview of the fundamentals of audio description and how interested individuals can become professional audio describers.   Subtitle Editing: Walking the Fine Line Between Red-Pen Pedantry and Facilitating Audience Immersion Vanessa Wells This […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5, Events, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, accessibility, Accessible Filmmaking, Ana G. González Meade, Audiodescription, audiovisual interpreter, Closed Captioning, conferences, DeborahWexler, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, Dubbing, interlingual real-time captioning, localization, opera supertitles, Pablo Romero-Fresco, Respeaking, SDH, software, Subtitling

Deep Focus 5: Editorial

January 12, 2020 By Webmaster

by Ana G. González Meade Dear readers: During the annual ATA60 Conference, we commemorated our second year attending as one of the official divisions. Yet this time around, for the first time, with the fabulous addition of our very own Distinguished Speaker, Pablo Romero-Fresco, who is a researcher, Honorary Professor of Translation and Filmmaking; author […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5, From the Editor, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, Ana G. González Meade, conferences, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, Distinguished Speaker, Letter from the Editor, Pablo Romero-Fresco

Deep Focus 5: Letter from our Administrator

January 12, 2020 By Webmaster

Learning and Breaking the Rules By Deborah Wexler After the ATA Conference this year, I stayed in beautiful Palm Springs for a couple of days to see the sights. I wasn’t disappointed with the three fantastic places I visited: the Indian Canyons, the Palm Springs Art Museum, and its Architecture and Design Center. In the […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5, From the Administrator, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, creativity, DeborahWexler, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, Letter from our Administrator, rules

Looking forward to ATA 60 with Distinguished Speaker Pablo Romero Fresco

November 6, 2019 By Webmaster

By Mara Campbell The AV Division is thrilled to have Mr. Pablo Romero Fresco as our first Distinguished Speaker in the ATA 60th Annual Conference this October in Palm Springs, California. Mr. Romero Fresco is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at Universidade de Vigo (Spain) and Honorary Professor of Translation and Filmmaking at the University […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 4, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, Accessible Filmmaking, Closed Captioning, deaf and hard-of-hearing, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 4, interlingual real-time captioning, interpretation, live subtitling, real-time transcription, Respeaking, Subtitling

AVD Happy Hour in ATA 60!

August 14, 2019 By Webmaster

Are you attending the ATA 60th Annual Conference in Palm Springs this year? Make sure you join us at our second Audiovisual Division’s Annual Happy Hour! Come meet the members, Leadership Council and elected officers of the Audiovisual Division! Spend some time with us at our Happy Hour, get to know our plans and goals for […]

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, conferences, meetup

October Should Be Declared Audiovisual Translation Conference Month

August 13, 2019 By Webmaster

by Gabriela Ortiz October is a perfect month to travel to Europe: the weather is mild, days are still not too short… AND two quite interesting conferences on AVT are held every two years. This year, I was lucky enough to attend both. 1) 12th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media – Languages […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 1, Newsletter Tagged With: 2018, 60th ATA Conference, Accessible Filmmaking, Aline Remael, Allison Smith, Anna Matamala, ATRAE, Belén Agulló, Berlin, Bernd Benecke, Chris Hughes, CITA, conference, David Padmore, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 1, Enric Torres I Feixas, ESIST, Francesc Mas, Gabriela Ortiz, GALMA Project, H2020 Project ImAc, Ian Ivarsson Award, immersive subtitles, Joel Snyder, Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Languages & The Media, Pablo Romero-Fresco, Patrick Zabalbeascoa, Pilar Orero, Reality Shows, Respeaking, Shak Yousaf, Sonali Rai, Subtitling, Voice-Over, Xénia Martínez Award

Events in 2019 for Audiovisual Translators

August 10, 2019 By Webmaster

By Sophie Céneray We are welcoming 2019 with great anticipation at the Audiovisual Division! Translators and interpreters have many ways of finding resources to develop their business and professional skills. It can be through reading newsletters and communications from associations they belong to or follow online, social media, colleagues, workshops, conferences, and much more. Audiovisual […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 2, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, 60th ATA Conference, ATA Conference, Carol O’Sullivan, Conference on Translation and the Media, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 2, Intermedia AVT Research Group, Intermedia conference, Jan-Louis Kruger, Media for All 8, Sophie Céneray, Stockholm University, The European Film Forum

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