Doctor Who: Accessibility and tension
Apr. 25th, 2010 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethHas anyone done screencaps of eps of DW with the broadcast subtitles on? Or the DVD subs for that matter. But mostly the multicolored black backed ones off the TV.
I wanted to demonstrate how much of the screen a Doctor speech takes up, and how that impacts the closeups, but I've already deleted episodes that I've bought on DVD so there's really only 11 still on the hard drive.
I know I'm used to it and hardly ever notice now, but the amount of screen the little cartoon guy covered yesterday? That's usually behind the subtitles. And, when he's talky, then some.
And that's why I reset the recorder settings and record twice, so I can both 'hear' and see what's going on, because on my recorder at least I can't switch the things off once they're recorded.
(Is there a better recorder? Is there somewhere that reviews equipment with this in mind? The otherwise helpful shop people didn't know that subtitle display and subtitle recording were two seperate settings, and the button on the remote only changes the display. Is still better than the old digibox that didn't have a button on the remote.)
I've still got one clip of FlashForward on my disc that I keep meaning to cap for posterity. It's the episode where they broadcast it without subtitles but with a notice that says 'this episode has no subtitles'. In the middle of the screen. Through the entire episode.
That was clever.
:eyeroll:
Subtitled TV is very much preferable to those channels that still can't be bothered, or tell me it's my digibox (yes, thanks, that explains all the other channels that work perfectly well, and the way your commercials are oddly easier to read).
But I don't think many content providers (er, people that make TV shows) actually watch their show with the subtitles on, or indeed check that the subtitles have the right words in. And if they did just a couple of times things could be tweaked better.
Mind there's still the problem of the little corner logos covering people's faces, even for shows made specific for those channels, so there's other tweaks could usefully be applied.
But, you know, being able to know the words? Kind of important.
I wanted to demonstrate how much of the screen a Doctor speech takes up, and how that impacts the closeups, but I've already deleted episodes that I've bought on DVD so there's really only 11 still on the hard drive.
I know I'm used to it and hardly ever notice now, but the amount of screen the little cartoon guy covered yesterday? That's usually behind the subtitles. And, when he's talky, then some.
And that's why I reset the recorder settings and record twice, so I can both 'hear' and see what's going on, because on my recorder at least I can't switch the things off once they're recorded.
(Is there a better recorder? Is there somewhere that reviews equipment with this in mind? The otherwise helpful shop people didn't know that subtitle display and subtitle recording were two seperate settings, and the button on the remote only changes the display. Is still better than the old digibox that didn't have a button on the remote.)
I've still got one clip of FlashForward on my disc that I keep meaning to cap for posterity. It's the episode where they broadcast it without subtitles but with a notice that says 'this episode has no subtitles'. In the middle of the screen. Through the entire episode.
That was clever.
:eyeroll:
Subtitled TV is very much preferable to those channels that still can't be bothered, or tell me it's my digibox (yes, thanks, that explains all the other channels that work perfectly well, and the way your commercials are oddly easier to read).
But I don't think many content providers (er, people that make TV shows) actually watch their show with the subtitles on, or indeed check that the subtitles have the right words in. And if they did just a couple of times things could be tweaked better.
Mind there's still the problem of the little corner logos covering people's faces, even for shows made specific for those channels, so there's other tweaks could usefully be applied.
But, you know, being able to know the words? Kind of important.