Event Recording: Creative Captioning + Transcription
Recorded September 28, 2022 | Event Lead: Rae Maxwell-Ross
ASL Interpretation provided by Pro Bono ASL
Captions provided by RMR
Overview
Captioning and Transcription are essential features to include with any artwork or media that has audio. Both captions and transcripts are required to make video and audio content accessible to D/deaf, hard of hearing people, as well as many folks with cognitive and sensory related disabilities.
In this event, we do a brief overview of some of the technical aspects of incorporating captioning and transcription into your art practice, and then dive into some of the more creative considerations for artworks.
As with other accessibility features, we encourage you to view this as an expansion or accompaniment to your artwork. These additional layers can enrich your artwork further and welcome a broader audience to engage with your time-based artworks, performances and artist talks.
Accessibility
ASL Interpretation
Auto-captioning
Engagement via chat
Raise hand feature and reactions available
Recording (with CC and ASL) provided after event
Agenda
8:00 to 8:05pm | Welcome!
8:05 to 8:20pm | Overview of Artwork Descriptions
8:20 to 8:55pm | Group Discussion
8:55 to 9:00pm | Final Thoughts and Prompts for further asynchronous discussion
Discussion Questions
How can the language used to identify different speakers affect the overall feeling of the work? Are speakers identified by name? Are they identified by visual description? Are some people identified by name while others are not? How else could you creatively identify different speakers?
What are the pros and cons of using full verbatim transcription versus clean verbatim? How do you decide which is best for the work? What would it do to the work if you used a mix of both?
Would thinking about how a work would show up as a transcript and/or captions effect your art making process? How? What are some things that you might consider in your process that would make these accessibility features flow more creatively with your work?
How can captions and transcripts evoke an artistic experience while delivering the necessary information?
More Event Info
Post-Event Prompt | Captions + Tanscripts
Please consider completing the following prompt and sharing your creation in the Community Forum Thread for Captions + Tanscripts or on the #art-share-and-feedback Slack channel.
Prompt 1
Find a photo or image which features two or more people in it. For each person in the image come up with multiple different ways to identify them for captions.
Does changing the language that identifies some change the feeling of viewing them in the image?
Can you come up with multiple different ways to identify them descriptively?
Try picking different emotional tones and try to use language to identify them which evokes those emotions.
Prompt 2
Find a short comedic video that you like and try to create a set of captions that don’t ruin the jokes.
Remember that the pacing is important!
Can you make a comedic transcript?