Audio Description and Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing B-A
Code: 44383 ECTS Credits: 9| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 4315982 Audiovisual Translation | OB | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Cristóbal Cabeza Cáceres
- Email:
- cristobal.cabeza@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
If the student is doing the master in two years, they must have completed the Dubbing and Subtitling module before doing the Audio description and Subtitle for the Deaf module.
Objectives and Contextualisation
- Learning the history and legal context in Catalonia, Spain and Europe in terms of subtitling for the deaf and audio description.
- Learning the reality of the user.
- Understanding and analyzing audiovisual products of various types.
- Getting documented.
- Making subtitles for the deaf and audio descriptions of various types with their appropriate register.
- Mastering the software, techniques and features of subtitles for the deaf and audio description.
Competences
- Act in accordance with the code of ethics of the profession.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
- Critically analyse the structural and thematic aspects of cinema screenplays.
- Discern the different modes and textual genres of audiovisual translation and media accessibility and their characteristics.
- Manage projects in audiovisual translation, accessibility, multimedia localisation, and translation of web pages and video games.
- Master strategies for the correction, linguistic revision and post-edition of audiovisual products.
- Recognise the translation problems specific to the different modes of audiovisual products and use the knowledge acquired to solve them.
- Translate and make accessible audiovisual products, multimedia products, web pages, video games and software.
- Use specific software to translate and make accessible audiovisual products, multimedia products and video games.
Learning Outcomes
- Acquire practice in subtitling processes for deaf people and the production of audio description guides.
- Act in accordance with the code of ethics of the profession.
- Analyse the cinematographic product to judge which elements should be included in the audio description.
- Be able to use subtitling programs to create subtitles for deaf people.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously.
- Identify and correct errors in subtitling products for deaf people and audio descriptions.
- Identify the principal challenges of media accessibility.
- Recognise the economic and professional aspects of the accessibility industry.
- Recognise the principal characteristics of audio description.
- Recognise the principal characteristics of subtitling for deaf people.
- Solve problems related to identification of characters and description of actions in an audiovisual product to be audio-described.
- Solve problems related to the identification of the speaker and the description of sounds in subtitles for deaf people.
- Use software to carry out audio descriptions.
- Work in and lead teams engaging in media accessibility.
- Write subtitles for the deaf and audio descriptions that fulfill the industry's professional standards.
Content
Audio description
Introductory block
• What is the AD? History of the AD.
• Users and expectations.
• Regulations and laws.
• Audio description of credits and logos.
Theoretical and practical block
• Audio description of characters, with special attention to gender perspective.
• Audio description of linear actions and non-linear actions.
• Audio description of complex actions and audiosubtitling.
• Audio description of complex actions.
• General practice: AD of children's products.
• General practice: AD of the beginning of a movie.
• AD of performing arts (theater and opera).
• Labour market.
Subtitling for the deaf
Introductory block.
• Subtitling for the deaf: definition, origins and types of subtitles.
• The subtitles for the deaf in Spain: national panorama and regional panorama.
• Laws, regulations and initiatives that help eliminate barriers.
• The deaf receiver.
• Subtitling practice for the hearing impaired: technical dimension.
• Subtitling practice for the hearing impaired: orthotypographic dimension.
Theoretical and practical block
• The working method in SDH.
• Reading speed and reduction in SDH.
• Identification of characters and didascalias.
• Sounds and music.
• Products for a children's audience.
• Dubbed and voiced-over documentaries.
• The linguistic aspects of the SDH in colloquial and comedy products.
• Audiovisual products with different language dialects.
• Other types of products.
• The labour market.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Activities correction | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12 |
| Critical analysis of products | 12 | 0.48 | 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 |
| Presentation of theoretical content | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 7, 9, 10 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Debates and reflection activities on relevant aspects | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 |
| Preparation of exercises and assignments | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
| Presentation of critical analysis of products and joint reflection | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 14 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Autonomous work (exercises with software, analysis of products, documentation, constructions of oral / virtual presentations, corrections, reading of bibliography, etc.) | 153 | 6.12 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
An active methodology with activities of various types is used. The instruments of the UAB Virtual Campus are used.
Possible methodologies:
- Realization of audio description and subtitling tasks for the deaf.
- Realization of audio description and subtitling projects for the deaf.
- Resolution of exercises.
- Presentations of individual / group work.
- Debates (in person or in forums).
- Cooperative learning techniques.
The didactic activities are organized in three blocks, according to the degree of autonomy required of the student:
- Directed activities: requires the direction of a professor.
- Supervised activities: requires more or less punctual supervision of a professor.
- Autonomous activities: the student organizes time and effort autonomously (individually or in groups).
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Active participation (exercises, class) | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
| 2. Group assignment | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 |
| 3. Assignment | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
| 4. Final assignment | 40 | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 |
Continuous assessment
Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing various tasks and tests. These activities are detailed in the table at the end of this section of the Study Guide.
Review
When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.
Missed/failed assessment activities
Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5.
The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for. In case of retaking, maximum grade will be 5 (Pass).
Classification as "not assessable"
In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.
Misconduct in assessment activities
Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the student involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject. Assessment activities in whichirregularities have occurred (e.g. plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from recovery.
Single assessment
This module is not suitable for single assessment.
Bibliography
Selected bibliography
For more references, see BITRA: https://aplicacionesua.cpd.ua.es/tra_int/usu/buscar.asp [Keywords "accessibility" and "audio description" / "subtitles"]
Bibliography on Audio description [SPS below]
AENOR (2005): Norma UNE: 153020. Audiodescripción para personas con discapacidad visual. Requisitos para la audiodescripción y elaboración de audioguías. Madrid: AENOR.
Fryer, Louise (2016): An Introduction to Audio Description. A Practical Guide. New York: Routledge.
Maszerowska, Anna; Matamala, Anna & Orero, Pilar (2014) (eds.): Audio Description: New perspectives illustrated. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Puigdomènech, Laura; Matamala, Anna & Orero, Pilar (2007): "Bases per a un futur protocol d'audiodescripció per a l'àmbit català". Non-published document. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Remael, Aline & Vercauteren, Gert (2007): "Audio Describing the Exposition Phase of Films. Teaching Students What to Choose". TRANS: Revista de Traductología, 11, 73-94.
Snyder, Joel (2014). The Visual Made Verbal. A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description. Arlington: American Council of the Blind.
Vercauteren, Gert (2007): "Towards a European Guideline for Audio Description", in Díaz-Cintas, Jorge; Pilar Orero & Aline Remael (eds.): Media for All. Accessibility in Audiovisual Translation. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 139-150.
Bibliography on SDH
AENOR (2012): Subtitulado para personas sordas y personas con discapacidad auditiva. Norma. UNE 153010:2012, Madrid: Asociación Española de Normalización y Certificación (AENOR).
Arnáiz Uzquiza, Verónica (2012): “Los parámetros queidentifican el subtitulado para sordos. Análisisy clasificación”. MonTI,4:103-132.
Bartoll, Eduard (2008): Paràmetres per a una taxonomia de la subtitulació. PhD. Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Available at: http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/7572
Díaz Cintas, Jorge (2003): Teoría y práctica de la subtitulación: Inglés-Español, Barcelona: Ariel.
Jiménez Hurtado, Catalina (ed.) (2007): Traducción y accesibilidad. Subtitulación para sordos y audiodescripción para ciegos: nuevas modalidades de Traducción Audiovisual, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Matamala, Ana & Orero, Pilar (eds.) (2010): Listening to subtitles: subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Software
Subtitle Edit.
Language list
Information on the teaching languages can be checked on the CONTENTS section of the guide.