The volunteer, and the seam left in#
SLOP8217 · Week 8
A commercial subtitle removes the seam.
Fansubbing, translator’s notes and deliberate roughness — the only errors in this course that were chosen
It is paid to.
The viewer is not supposed to notice that a decision was made, and the highest praise for the work is that nobody thought about it.
Volunteer subtitling communities frequently do the opposite.
Outline#
- the fansub as an annotated edition rather than a rough one
- what a translator’s note does to the viewer’s relationship with the text
Outline#
- reconstructing a community’s values from what it refuses to smooth
- the hardest reconstruction in the course: a mechanism made of people
At the bench on Wednesday
Annotate, then remove#
Wednesday, 21 April
- Material
- forty seconds of video
- Operation
- annotating, then stripping
- Leaves
- two subtitle tracks and an account of what the clean one lost