November 2012
Beginner to intermediate
134 pages
2h 51m
English
Titles can be used to identify a speaker, a place, a time or sometimes as translation. In fact, titles have many uses and there is not the space to cover all of them here. Rather, a guide is offered to the sensible use of titles and some of the pitfalls that can be encountered.
For the purposes of this book, titles will be defined as text keyed over a moving background image. Captions will be defined as a composite of text over a colour background, a graphic or a still frame. This is by no means a universally accepted set of definitions as, in many areas, titles and captions can be and are used interchangeably. A third category is sub-titles, which are usually used to provide a text translation or can ...
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