Bill Creswell, a web developer who works for a theatre that provides closed captioning and descriptive audio. He first contacted me earlier this year in response to my captioned vlogs and asked how I did it. I shared some information with him regarding captioning video clips.
I must say I am pleased with what he has done so far. The reason why he wanted my help in the first place was to see how he can caption the movie trailers on his own and provide them at the local theatre he's employed at. I don't know if he has managed to get any in. But he is doing a fine job of captioning movie trailers and posting them on his blog.
I certainly hope this will be the starting point of pushing the studios into providing English subtitles for the movie trailers on their websites and other websites hosting the movie trailers. I also share the same complaint toward websites like CNN.com and other websites where they provide a large amount of video clips that are inaccessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. It has been years and nothing is still being done about it despite the loud complaints.
I just want to let Bill Creswell know how I really appreciate his hard work and dedication to making the movie trailers more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing communities around the world.
Bill, keep up the great work! I really appreciate it, and I imagine many of us do too as well. By the way, for these who are interested in watching the captioned movie trailers, just click here to gain access to Bill's website.
Enjoy!
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12/31/2007 5:23 AM
You're so welcome!
I want to add to that, that http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/subtitled.trailers.html and itfc & ims, in the United Kingdom have been doing this for a while, including some descriptive audio tracks, sponsored by the UK Film Council.
But CC'd movies and trailers are not being promoted very well. That's why I like to feature and promote their trailers and work as much as possible.
I like http://Fomdi.com and http://deafaccessfilms.com/ but it would be easy enough for any of the movie showtime aggregators to provide CC movie searches. Email their feedd back links and flood them with the suggestion!
My kids may not be the only ones who would watch an Open Captioned movie - think of Movies for moms, where they could turn the sound way down, and put on captions, or play captions on movies they may not want young children listening too.
Our theatre does not want to use my trailers, primarily because the may violate some "terms of use" for trailers, so I do it separately. I try to use official videos when possible.
Thanks for the "ad"!
12/31/2007 10:42 AM
Thanks! I am going to check it out now and wish you a Happy New Year, Banjo!
1/06/2008 11:08 AM
Thanks to Banjo and Bell Creswell!
I'm the lead web developer at deafaccessfilms.com
We do feature a link to FOMDI on our link page, and are adding a link for another search service, very soon.
Please do make comments, send almost any message to any of the sites and services trying to offer good services to the Deaf and HOH communities.
We've been around as long as InsightCinema but have not had as large a response - yet. 8-D
Tell us what you like. Tell us what you don't. We're tying to make a simple to use, fast display site, keeping needed clicks to fewest possible to get the movie showtime info - so we can all hit the road to see a film, or check the address, or print out the info to share with a date.
thanks,
Greg