Name: Don’t do this! // How to do captions right! [CC]
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T19:00:33.000Z
Duration: 15 min 18 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Hi, I’m Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, welcome to the third in my series of videos focusing

on captions on YouTube and their importance, in celebration of International Week of the Deaf

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In the first video I went through what captions are and why they’re actually useful, the second video

was a quick breakdown of how to add captions to YouTube videos and tomorrow’s video will

give you a bit more insight into these symbols and what they mean...

Today though, let’s go through some frequently asked questions about captions. I asked for

your questions about captions on my Instagram and Twitter (you can follow me on those if

you don’t already…) and I’ve done my best to answer them but if you have any more

questions, please do leave them in the comments below.

And now on to what you should and shouldn’t be including in your captions.

Firstly though, a few misconceptions about who is actually using the captions:

Currently people watch YouTube videos with captions more than 15 million times per day

and the number of videos with them is 1 billion.

A study on television accessibility by Ofcom found that 80% of people who use closed captions

are neither deaf nor hard of hearing, but they might be...

Trying to watch without distracting others

Struggling with the inconsistent volume of this video

Watching a really sensitive subject matter in public

While the remaining 20% are people who do have

some degree of hearing loss and are thus the most important costumer

for your closed captions because  they need them.

It does go to show that the demand for  closed captions isn’t just limited

to one certain group of people and it's  specially not one

small a group of people- ok but we already went through that in video 1!

There are more deaf people thank you think

“But Jessica, c'mon now, films, television and YouTube videos are all visual- is the audio really

(High pitched) Ok, you try watching  everything without sound

Picture your favourite tv show- yes, my fave

is Buffy the Vampire Slayer, yes, I know it ended 15 years ago, no, I don’t care-

Try to envisage how many different types of audio there can be in one scene:

On-screen dialogue: That's talking characters  on screen, you can see them

Then you got your off-screen dialogue:  That's characters who are talking out of the frame

This can be steps that you see being taken it can be swords clashing together in a battle

It can be a glass falling and smashing on the floor

Then Off-screen action sounds: this is someone coming into the front door downstairs

behind her and it's not cause it's groaning.

Five, Background noise This could be traffic, other people

an army of slayers doing battle with vampires.

Uh, spoiler!  Is it still a spoiler if it is 15 years old?

Next, In-story media: this is television that is playing around, a radio that is on in the background

This is stuff that the characters can actually hear themselves.

Music soundtrack...[whispering]  Oh I cannot raise this finger with this one, alright.

Music soundtrack this is music that is laid  over in post-production

This is the music that only the viewer can hear and the character cannot

It's called non-diegetic for you filmmaking buffs

Number 8, additional effects:  again this is layered in post-production

This would be something like a vampire going  [Poof]

Closed captions are important because they

help describe every sound and  audio cue that plays a part in the story itself.

In the wider whole, it builds the narrative up.

So without many of the things I just mentioned you’ll be missing out on a wide range of

It's not just the language, the spoken words that are important

Convinced you need to use captions yet? Wonderful!

I explained in video 1 about the difference

between subtitles and closed captions so I’m going  to move on to the second most asked question

Which is: What is the difference between ‘open captions’ and ‘closed captions’?

Open captions are those embedded in the video file that you as viewer has no control over.

Think for instance when Netflix does  automatic translations into English

of characters who are speaking in Spanish and they put that on screen like

Or when you go and see the cinema and is a captioned screening

There are all the subtitles at the bottom you  can't turn them on or off yourself as a viewer

Closed captions are those that are hidden until turned on.

These are the types that you get in most television  sets and look

Down to the nitty-gritty: what SHOULD and

SHOULDN’T you include in your YouTube captions?

Just to say: I don’t have a degree in captions, obviously

Also, I’m just one deaf person,  we all have very different views and experiences

I'm sure there are some in the comment  section down bellow that are

completely different from mine and that's great because I welcome different people's different views

What if I make a grammatical error?  Should I include that in my captions?

Good question. It may feel like correcting

yourself is of course the most sensible  thing to do and easier for the viewer

is that YouTube is about personalities, you’re being honest and open with the viewer and

that’s what they’re responding to. Your hearing viewers are able to experience the

authentic sound of you- perhaps you have an amazingly Yorkshire accent

and say ‘si’ thi’ later’ at the end of all of your videos

Don’t ‘correct’ that to ‘see you later’ How dull!

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