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Alien Films / Re: Alien 3 - Audio Descriptio...
Last post by NecronomIV - Today at 04:01:33 AMA little slow going, and I lost a week and a bit due to travel. I'm now 45 minutes in.
It strikes me that I've never actually discussed the how I'm actually doing what I'm doing. I've never posted my set up.
Fundamentally, audio description is someone narrating the movie in between dialogue and important sound, so it follows that writing audio description requires defining a video in-point, an out-point, and the text to be narrated timed to fit that gap.
For example, the creature-birth/funeral happens around the half-hour mark of the Assembly Cut:
(This is an unedited cue. "Razor jaws"? That's what revision is for. Also not spellchecked yet, and it sorely needs it).
What's fantastic about that is that it's functionally the same process as adding subtitles! These two activities map cleanly onto each other. The difference is that with subtitling, you subtitle when people are talking and with audio description, you write when people are not talking.
The upshot of this is you can use subtitle software to write audio description!
And there are loads of free subtitle editors.
I use "subtitld" which has a nice interface, and works on Linux, which is my native ecosystem.
The interface, broken down, is:
Pretty much you identify a gap in the dialogue, make a new cue, drag it so it doesn't extend over any dialogue or essential sound, and then start typing.
Then, 7,500 words later, boom! You have an Alien 3 script.
It strikes me that I've never actually discussed the how I'm actually doing what I'm doing. I've never posted my set up.
Fundamentally, audio description is someone narrating the movie in between dialogue and important sound, so it follows that writing audio description requires defining a video in-point, an out-point, and the text to be narrated timed to fit that gap.
For example, the creature-birth/funeral happens around the half-hour mark of the Assembly Cut:
Quote00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:03,850
Dillon and the prisoners raise their fists. In the abattoir, the newborn alien opens its razor jaws, and the inner jaw slides out.
(This is an unedited cue. "Razor jaws"? That's what revision is for. Also not spellchecked yet, and it sorely needs it).
What's fantastic about that is that it's functionally the same process as adding subtitles! These two activities map cleanly onto each other. The difference is that with subtitling, you subtitle when people are talking and with audio description, you write when people are not talking.
The upshot of this is you can use subtitle software to write audio description!
And there are loads of free subtitle editors.
I use "subtitld" which has a nice interface, and works on Linux, which is my native ecosystem.
The interface, broken down, is:
- The video on the right
- The time-line and audio wave-form at the bottom, along with the cues.
- On the left is a list of all the cues
- At the bottom, an editing pane for the currently selected cue.
Pretty much you identify a gap in the dialogue, make a new cue, drag it so it doesn't extend over any dialogue or essential sound, and then start typing.
Then, 7,500 words later, boom! You have an Alien 3 script.
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Recreational Area / Re: The Alien Dialogue Thread ...
Last post by TheDerelict - Today at 04:01:10 AMWell it's an interesting combination of elements making him a tough little son of a b*tch.
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Alien Films / Re: Alien Makes Box Office Top...
Last post by NecronomIV - Today at 03:41:43 AMJust posting a review from Alexander Howard from Linkedin:
If you are lucky enough to live in a country/place they are screening Alien, and you're interested in a different experience of the film, try asking for an audio description headset and see what it's like with no visuals (and I assume an excellent cinema sound system).
QuoteHIGHLY RECOMMEND! Alien 45th Anniversary theatrical rerelease which has audio description for the first time ever! I really enjoyed the audio description track, it was outstanding and I truly felt like I was finally experiencing this classic movie the way it was meant to be experienced. I really hope other Classic Movies can take notice of this and add audio description to them to benefit the Blind and low vision community. I also have hope that this outstanding audio description track will follow the film to streaming and hopefully physical media as well. Thank you so much to everyone who made this happen!
If you are lucky enough to live in a country/place they are screening Alien, and you're interested in a different experience of the film, try asking for an audio description headset and see what it's like with no visuals (and I assume an excellent cinema sound system).
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Recreational Area / Re: The Alien Dialogue Thread ...
Last post by NecronomIV - Today at 03:34:37 AMI think it's safe to assume it's not a zombie.
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Alien: Romulus / Re: Why Alien: Romulus pits th...
Last post by Mike’s Monsters - Today at 03:32:08 AMIt's the angle. Camera is positioned low, and we are looking up at it. The head is tilted way back, so we're not seeing the dome. It's all there, wasn't a wild new shape or anything. But the dome does have a new design to it that you'll all see clearly with more footage/marketing. The context of the scene will make a lot more sense when you all can see it in its entirety. Xeno is just in an odd position.
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Alien: Romulus / Re: Why Alien: Romulus pits th...
Last post by SiL - Today at 03:30:08 AMQuote from: solace97 on Today at 02:58:43 AMIs this just a weird angle then? The head is making me a little nervous. The details look amazing but it almost look like the head is overly curved and narrow in the back, far from a traditional xenomorph dome. Hope they didn't try to do too much to make it noticeably differentit's a distinctly new dome shape.
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Recreational Area / Re: Just Talk.
Last post by Darwinsgirl - Today at 03:27:37 AMQuote from: Kradan on Yesterday at 08:16:17 PMSo, is Bishop II a human or an android ? Let's figure it out using simple logic:
1. David 8 yells big "NO" when Alien-esque lifeform (Neomorph) gets killed (shot by Oram)
2. David 8 is an android
3. Bishop II yells big "NO" when Alien-esque lifeform (baby Queen) gets killed (by Ripley falling into a fiery pit)
4. Therefore, Bishop II is, in fact, an android
5.
NOOOO
(Kidding couldn't resist)
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Recreational Area / Re: The Alien Dialogue Thread ...
Last post by Darwinsgirl - Today at 03:04:42 AM"Let's go find our ghost..."
Covenant
Covenant
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Alien: Romulus / Re: Why Alien: Romulus pits th...
Last post by solace97 - Today at 02:58:43 AMQuote from: Mike's Monsters on Yesterday at 11:14:41 PMQuote from: Acid_Reign161 on Yesterday at 10:12:10 PMQuote from: Mike's Monsters on Yesterday at 07:59:35 PMSpoiler
Big Chap looks like Big Chap. The new Xeno is its own thing, and I personally don't feel comparing all the details between the two is all that necessary. It's a new design, which is expected with every new movie. I really dug the new look, and am excited for the toys to come out of it. Did not have the same feeling when I watched Covenant.[close]
Ahh, so is this new image actually ofthat was mentioned in previous leaks? If so, that majorly puts my mind at restSpoiler
the 'human-like' xeno[close]😃Spoiler
that we aren't getting something that looks remotely like the newborn[close]
The Xeno in the photo is the Xeno in the film. It's nothing else.
Is this just a weird angle then? The head is making me a little nervous. The details look amazing but it almost look like the head is overly curved and narrow in the back, far from a traditional xenomorph dome. Hope they didn't try to do too much to make it noticeably different
