Cost: From £65 to £145
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Overview
This one-day online course will help you make audiovisual material accessible to D/deaf and hard of hearing people through subtitles.
You'll learn about the needs of D/deaf and hard of hearing people, including children, and develop skills for subtitling pre-recorded material for this audience.
You'll also be introduced to captioning puppet theatre.
This course is run by CenTraS - Centre for Translation Studies at UCL.
Who this course is for
This professional training course is open to:
- freelance translators
- undergraduate and postgraduate translation students
- translation tutors
Course content
Topics covered will include:
- Who is our audience? Understanding deafness
- Linguistic and technical aspects of subtitling: spotting, line-breaks, editing and reading speed
- SDH specific elements: music, sound effects, paralinguistic features, speakers’ identification
- Legislation and guidelines, present SDH and captioning panorama
- How to make an event accessible to D/deaf and hard of hearing people: the case of captioning puppet theatre
Certificates
You'll receive a certificate of attendance on completion of the course.
Cost and concessions
The fees are as follows:
- UCL students and CenTraS alumni - £65
- UCL staff, academic visitors, and affiliates - £110
- Full rate - £145
Book a place
To book your place, please send your completed application form to Emmanouela Patiniotaki at selcs.centras-professional@ucl.ac.uk
Course team
Dr Soledad Zarate
Soledad is a Teaching Fellow at UCL, teaching subtitling for D/deaf and hard of hearing people. Her main area of research is subtitling for deaf children. She also runs a captioning service at the Puppet Theatre Barge (London). For more information see Soledad's LinkedIn profile.
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Course information last modified: 18 Apr 2023, 09:53