Advantages and Disadvantages of Subtitles
Due to the globalization of our cultures and the fact that Hollywood is the leading film producer most videos on the market are in English.
To adopt all those films into target language culture, filmmakers use dubbing, voice-over and subtitles.
We are now going to focus on subtitles, which are the topic of this presentation.
Subtitles are used not only in films, but also in foreign television shows. Subtitles can translate speech, signs, letters and show sounds to aid the deaf and hard of hearing.
The advantages:
what I find the greatest advantage of subtitles is the fact that it preserves the original audio track. Thanks to subtitles, the characters speak with their original voice, and the ambience sounds are not disrupted by voice-over or inserted dubbing recordings.
Secondly, it would be strange to watch a film on feudal Japan, while characters talk to each in pure sophisticated English or in nearly literary German.......
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