Fundamentals of Dubbing & Subtitling

Description

This course will introduce students into the rudiments of Dubbing and subtitling. Dubbing will be approached as a global Audio-visual Translation (AVT) mode that is becoming more and more popular in many countries. A definition of dubbing and subtitling will give way to a discussion about the semiotic interaction between text and images and the way this interaction in the original audiovisual, subtitled text has an impact on translation solutions. Students will then learn about the technical issues that constrain dubbing and subtitling in terms of time and space.

Objectives

•  To discover the working environment of subtitling and dialogue writing for dubbing for cinema, TV and video-ondemand platforms  To unveil the norms that regulate the process of translation for dubbing  To be able to segment the translated text into takes, add the correct dubbing symbols, practise lip-syncing and emulate spontaneous dialogues in the translation  Be able to undertake Take/loop segmentation, Dub symbols or indicators, Lip-synch (including isochrony and kinesic synchrony), and emulate oral spontaneous discourse  To produce and record a subtitled version of the work, or translation, for dubbing that complies with professional protocol