From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V4 #50 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Sunday, February 22 2004 Volume 04 : Number 050 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [chakram-refugees] More on Captioning [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:37:23 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] More on Captioning Hi, Ife inquired: >How much do you "imagine"? What do you use as a source for that? How does >what you "get" differ when it's lip reading, vs. having captioning, vs. >getting >to hear a little of what maybe you first got on your own? How much does >seeing or hearing the words add to the *emotional* aspect of what you got >from >what you saw -- both personally and in terms of what was going on with the >characters? Do you really learn that much more about the plot? Are there >some eps >where what you originally had to supply yourself was "better," the same or >"worse" in some way than what you found out later? Well, I can only respond based on how I know my sister watches tv. She does so with the sound up even though the captioning's on, because her hearing aid does give her some sounds. I know that she can sometimes get as much (or more) out of an actor's physical performance than their vocal one. (She hates it when the camera angle shows the back of a character's head while they're speaking, for example.) If an actor has an emotive face or uses expressive body language, that will help convey the same things as the actor's tone of voice does. There is another side to this coin -- I've noticed she's more tolerant of bad actors than I am, if the actor is one of those with restrained body movements but goes way over the top in their vocal delivery. If the actor is way over the top in their body language, then she's more apt to agree with me that they suck. :) She also notices the writing more than the average bear, too, and I think she would even if she weren't a writer by trade, because she relies on the captions. This is why she enjoys the better-written shows (X:WP, anything Joss Whedon's involved in, Alias, Joan of Arcadia, CSI, etc.) and hates sitcoms. The written words are right up there in the forefront, so if the dialogue is stupid it's going to be a huge turn-off. If she were to read this she'd probably say "what the hell are you talking about" :), but this is my perception, anyway ... hope it helps. =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://muzak.smoe.org =============================================== ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V4 #50 *************************************