Between Objectivity and Fear: Audio Description in Spanish Horror Films By María López Rubio Spanish horror films by directors such as Álex de la Iglesia and Paco Plaza use visual and auditory tension to create fear. For audio describers, this creates an important challenge: how to convey what happens on screen for blind and visually-impaired … Read more
Overcoming Information Asymmetry in the Subtitling Industry I’m sure many subtitlers can relate: having to explain time and time again what it is exactly that they do. I can certainly remember times when I or colleagues found ourselves explaining the difference between the myriad types of subtitles we could provide to clients. Researchers like Callum … Read more
Subtitling for NETFLIX: How subtitlers experience it and what they wish for the future By Tinka Stössel How much do we really know about what it’s like to subtitle for Netflix? With its global, competitive, and highly technological nature, subtitling for streaming is subject to frequent changes and the system remains rather mysterious from the outside. But what about … Read more
Efficient and Effective Subtitling Revision: Finding the Sweet Spot Between “Good Enough” and “Perfect” by Rita Menezes Subtitling revision is often invisible. Viewers rarely think about it, and yet it is precisely at this stage that subtitles become truly fit for purpose. It is also where things get complicated. Revisers are not simply correcting errors. … Read more
Why should AVT practitioners and academics collaborate in this day and age? by Max Deryagin No doubt, a question everyone in our field should ask themselves, and a big one at that. Indeed, many might consider such collaboration to be somewhat fruitless — a waste of time even — or doubt that the other party … Read more
