by Daniela Costa January: Dubbing with Elodie Powers We started 2021 by interviewing Elodie Powers, Director of Global Streaming and Broadcast at Keywords Studios. She shared with us how COVID-19 affected their dubbing and postproduction process and how her team dealt with new circumstances. The company has teams in China and Italy, so they had […]
Boosting Inclusion through Easy-to-Read Texts in AVT
by Mariella Di Bua It is often said that translation bridges gaps between different cultures. And that it helps to spread information with the peoples of the world. We also refer to translation as a tool that allows access to information through the power of words in written and oral channels. Today, acknowledgment of this […]
Getting the Ball Rolling on Accessible Streaming
By Mariella Di Bua Do you agree that innovation arises from a vision? Or do you think it stems from mere observation? I’d like to share a story of innovation with you. This innovation is the result of both: a vision and observation. And it put a service considered ordinary by most at the fingertips […]
Translating Accessibility and Sensitive Content
by Daniela Costa A few months ago, I was assigned the subtitle translation of a documentary. So far, nothing new to me. Before starting a project, I usually do some research about the director, characters, and theme. In this case, it was a documentary about a camp for teenagers, and how it changed their lives. […]
On the Audiovisual Radar
Audiovisual Translation-Related International Events COURSE Curso de Subtitulado y Doblaje dirigido a traductores, profesores, intérpretes y estudiantes (Subtitling and Dubbing Course for Translators, Teachers, Interpreters, and Students) When: Oct 2 – 16, 2020 Where: 100% Online Description: Subtitling script composition, dubbing script composition, Neutral Spanish practice, translation with and without script, software, job opportunities, final […]
The Road To The Olympics: How and Why We Took On Live Audio Description
by Diane Johnson If you were blind how would you be able to keep up on a trending topic like the Olympics? At Descriptive Video Works (DVW), we have been making recorded television programming accessible to people who are vision impaired and blind for 16 years. We started in Canada 2003 and then opened up […]
On the Audiovisual Radar: April-June 2020 Audiovisual Translation-Related International Events
1ª Conferência Internacional de Audiovisual da Aptrad 1st International Aptrad Audiovisual Conference CANCELLED When: Apr 3 – 4, 2020 Where: Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administracao do Porto, R. Jaime Lopes Amorim s/n, 4465-004 Matosinhos, Portugal Description: PATHS TO AN ACCESSIBLE WORLD The audiovisual industry today is producing more material than ever and the impact […]
Writing interpretation: an overview on a fascinating AV discipline
by Mara Campbell Last June, the Media for All 8 conference took place at the University of Stockholm. It was two days packed with 15 minute talks on many different subjects regarding audiovisual translation. One very interesting feature at the conference was the speech-to-text (STT) interpretation services provided. STT is basically a live transcription of […]
Forced Narratives? Forced Audiences!
By Mara Campbell and Sebastián Arias Sometimes it takes us ages to realize that we have been doing something inefficiently for a long time and nobody said a thing (probably because they didn’t notice). Generally, we can’t even establish the exact moment it started happening or who began doing it differently. My colleague and co-author […]
A different kind of audiovisual translation: Intralingual respeaking
By Dietlinde DuPlessis Any trained interpreter knows an exercise called “shadowing” which is used to prepare students for simultaneous interpreting. It consists of listening to spoken text and repeating spoken words as exactly as possible. It is harder than it might sound because one must listen and speak at the same time. It helps to […]
Audio Description as an Aesthetic Innovation
By Joel Snyder and Deborah Fels In his introduction to the second edition of “The Mastery of Movement”, Rudolph Laban wrote: “What really happens in a theatre does not occur only on the stage or in the audience, but within the magnetic current between both these poles.” (Laban, 1950.) He suggests that the performers on […]
ATA 60 Recap: Audio Description: The Visual Made Verbal
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 […]
ATA 60 Recap: Audiovisual Accessibility: What Translators Need to Know
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 […]
On the Audiovisual Radar: ATA 60
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 […]
A little overview: Media For All Conference 2019
By Sophie Ceneray I had the pleasure of attending the Media For All Conference (Complex Understandings) in Stockholm back in June 2019. It was three days packed with wonderful presentations and speakers, passionate audiovisual professionals, and excitement over a bubbling industry. The organizers did a fantastic job of keeping the conference on schedule while providing […]