Advantages And Disadvantages Of Audiovisual Translation

One word-to-screen translation that I found particularly frustrating was the Harry Potter series. I blew a gasket when the Durmstrang and Beauxbaton schools were simplified to purely male and purely female students, I had my head in my hands when the Weasley house caught on fire, and the forced chemistry between Harry and Hermione made me want to gag. These elements that are completely irrelevant to the content of the series were added simply for the fact that they are entertaining. Movie audiences love dramatic entrances, destruction scenes, and love triangles. Meanwhile, elements that added depth to the written series, such as Peeves the Poltergeist, Winky the house elf, and Hermione’s advocation of S.P.E.W, were all left out, for they were not deemed important, or entertaining, enough. The part of this that is the most frustrating is the way that the themes of the series are interpreted by movie fans. I cannot tell you how many times I have talked to people that believe Harry Potter is about whether Hermione ends up with Harry or Ron, or that it’s about ‘wands shooting cool colours.’ The metaphor by which the Harry Potter series and other information is identified is defined by the medium through which people view it. Furthermore, the mediums through which individuals view entertainment shape the way they view the

Furthermore, the author dwells into mediated popular culture which pertains specifically to movies, TV, songs, and advertisements along with the way they communicate

Alsultany discussed Simplified Complex Representations as the strategies that Television producers, writers, and the director’s use. These strategies give the impression that most material covered in the media must remain complex. There is an increase in diversity each

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Cinematic Language: The accepted systems, methods, or customs by which movies communicate. Cinematic conventions are flexible; they are not “rules”.

An audiobook, which is a voice performance of a text by an actor, who is a human being, introduces all the emotional aspects and understate real life signs into the reading to make the story sound alive while being listened (Darrow & Ferrera, 2007). On the other hand, text to speech uses an inhuman computer voice to simply repeat the written text as the imitated spoken word. Thus, reading any book out loud may establish an

Good readers can adapt their images based on the information gained from reading and see the “movie in their mind”. Even with simple sentences, though not particular rich in detail, they can still offer enough information for the reader to form a mental picture.

I’d have to say that the deaf theater video changed the way I see the theater. At first glance I thought, “How will this appeal to hearing people,” but they took care of it with the actors who signed and sang/spoke. Their whole concept and style appealed to the deaf community by visualizing the music and sounds through lights, actions, and even smells. Although their method for deaf theater was strange, it shed light on the fact that you don’t need to talk to convey an expression or an emotion. But it’s how you utilize the set and effects for the sake of the deaf audience. Watching that video really encouraged me to want to see a deaf performance so I can really take in the different style of live theater.

In “The myth of total cinema”, Bazin asserts that film produces reality with minimum human intervention, and as technology evolves, film will resemble reality with more fidelity and gives the example of sound addition. He talks about two types of films and filmmakers: the ones who believe in reality and the ones who believe in image.

Two components that have an immense impact on the quality and caliber of a film are the editing and sound found within the film. These two aspects alone can make or break a film. In the film The Kings of Summer, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, these two elements collaborate to highlight certain emotions and key moments in the film’s plot. Some of the sub-elements of these two components that can easily be identified within the film include the flashforward, the flashback, both nondiegetic and diegetic sound, semi diegetic sound, graphic matching and voice offs. Within the film The Kings Of Summer, editing and sound are methodically and tactfully utilized in order to produce a film that is both entertaining and meaningful for the audience.

Both the book “Mother Tongue” and film “Voces Inocentes” tell the story of El Salvador in the 1980’s through two different perspectives and personal stories that help us understand the different circumstances that people from El Salvador found themselves. Although, books take time to read, and can take from days to a week depending on the stories, it gives in detail what really happened during the War in El Salvador. Films on the other hand, may only take up to two hours but, as the audience we are able to engage more lively. There are strategies that a director takes upon in order to engage the audience. At times the director will focus on the

By using Don Taylor’s translation of the Sophocles’ written Antigone, and influences from Antonin Artaud’s First Manifesto, I hope to create a directorial concept which is interesting from both a visual and auditory perspective.

This question is a perplexing one, and will be explored throughout the following text. However, first a person must consider the value of a films translation of text into cinematic language. “A movie based on a literary source is often seen as a secondary work, consequently, of secondary value” (Cahir). What makes this ideology present in our society? What makes one translation considered more valuable than another? “Literature, generally, still occupies a more privileged position in the cultural hierarchy than movies do…” (Cahir). It is in the translation versus adaptation of text to cinematic language that offers film its own identity. Adaptation equates to the transformation of written word

built and used in audiovisual products to narrate, generate sensations and configure "worlds", real and fantastic, respect to the reality of the history of fiction (which may not coincide with reality as the viewer knows it in his own life, but that this understands and accepts as the reality of history that is being counting within the audiovisual piece).

Nowadays, although teaching and learning English has constantly changed, the Audio-Lingual Method still plays a significant role in many English classes around the world. According to Larsen-Freeman (2000), the Audio-Lingual Method was developed from an interesting idea that behavioral psychology and linguistic conventions are closely related to each other. Thus, this method aims to enhance learners’ ability by overlearn and habit formation.