Putting a Face on Theatre
(open captioning is like "subtitles" for a show).
I know that the company C2 is a main provider of this. I'm wondering if there are other companies out there that also do this sort of thing, or alternately, if there is equipment out there that will let us do the open captioning in house.
Any suggestions from anyone out there? thanks.
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Excellent suggestions, Laurie. thanks so much!
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Mamma Mia road company does not tour with a captioning system.
It can be done in many ways. All you need is some way to project the words, a script and an operator to make the system go. Could be as simple as a power point or as complex as slides and a supertitle screen. May I suggest you find out what you PATRONS prefer? After all, this is a service for their convenience.
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Permalink Reply by Thomas Boyle on -
I asked a friend of mine who put together the first one they used for the opera at the Dorothy Chandler and he seconds the PowerPoint idea.
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Permalink Reply by Jeff Gooch on -
I do opera supertitles all the time and it's quite easy with the right projection equipment. It could also be done for a "local" section of the audience, say, a section of a certain amount of seats- with smaller, less expensive LCD screens. These can be fed from a laptop or other device via Powerpoint or Keynote. A great tip though- if you have a script in Word format, put a carriage return after every line, then click "export to powerpoint". If you have a template set up, you'll end up with a single line (or phrase) on each separate slide. Then it's just a person hitting a space bar.
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