Today we’re profiling our recent Douglas College Print Futures student, Will Richter. Will has been our go-to script editor since 2005, working with Leslie Foster to produce post production scripts of all descriptions and complexities, from the simple to the beyond micro-detailed. He is a...

In "Which sounds are significant? Towards a rhetoric of closed captioning," Sean Zdenek argues that captioning is an interpretive practice where caption quality can be assessed in terms of genre, audience, context, and purpose. "A rhetoric of closed captioning goes beyond questions of accuracy, timing, and...

This month's trick comes from Mark Longstaff-Tyrrell of Frisnit Electric Industrial Co. He's invented an awesome trick to turn TV shows into a series of annotated static shots — an instant kind of comic book that you can read on your ereader! This is a...

Combined Dialogue and Action Continuity Scripts (also called Combined Continuity and Spotting Lists or CCSLs) are the most difficult and expensive scripts to prepare. It’s often a hassle to order CCSLs near the end of a project and dedicate a large chunk of your budget on...

Meet our Script Department Supervisor, Leslie! Leslie has been with Line 21 for 14 years, starting out as a caption editor in 1998. Today, Leslie manages the entire script department and works hard to deliver the best quality scripts to clients. What You Did Before Line...

What Is Closed Captioning? talks about the difference between closed captioning and subtitling by explaining that closed captioning is meant for a non-hearing audience while subtitling assumes that the audience can hear but doesn't understand the language being spoken. This means that subtitles include just what...

Photo by Chelsea Davis Filmmakers need to future proof their media and according to a recent article in Variety, most aren't even considering this. Acad sounds alarm about fragility of digital prod’n suggests that filmmakers don’t consider future proofing, and that with our current explosion and implosion...

              MacCaption, made by CPC and one of the applications we use for captioning, has a new feature called Assemble Caption that allows you to work more closely with a final cut pro timeline and automatically edit an existing caption file. It’s a efficient tool that gives...

1. Take 4 Passes (At Least). It takes, at minimum, 4 passes to accurately caption media. (What's the difference between subtitling and captioning?). The 4 passes are as follows: Transcribe accurately what is being said, with punctuation, spelling, and the write words [sic]. Phrase your transcript into...