Professional Courses 2015-­‐16 Subtitling for the deaf and the hard of hearing Venue Foster Court, rooms 216-­‐220 University College London Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps Number of Attendees 15 maximum Date Saturday, 18th June 2016 Time 10:30 am – 4:30 pm Lunch from 1 until 1:45 pm. Course Fee Including lunch Full rate: £115 UCL staff / CIOL members: £103.5 Student concession: £65 Course Trainer Dr Soledad Zárate Trainer Background Soledad completed a PhD on subtitling for deaf children and is teaching fellow at University College London. Who Would Benefit? Freelance translators, undergraduate and postgraduate translation students Course Objectives By the end of the day you will be conversant with the main principles that regulate subtitling for the deaf and hard-­‐of-­‐hearing and will have had the opportunity to familiarise yourself with WinCAPS, an industry standard subtitling program. Subtitling Software WinCAPS Course Content The course will start with an introduction to deafness aimed at becoming familiar with the audience. The specific requirements of subtitling for the deaf and hard-­‐of-­‐
hearing (SDH) – textual, tone of voice, speaker identification, sound effects – will be highlighted. The conventions and norms in place will be discussed. An insight into subtitling for deaf children will be presented and issues related to subtitling for young audiences will be discussed. A state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art professional subtitling program, WinCAPS, will be used by the participants to carry out subtitling tasks on clips provided by the trainer. This practical part is aimed at introducing technical aspects of subtitling and at gaining an understanding of the potential offered by subtitling programs. A list of useful websites and other sources of information will be given to all the participants. Certificate You will receive a certificate of attendance Contact Soledad Zarate soledad.zarate@ucl.ac.uk Website http://www.ucl.ac.uk/centras