[bksvol-discuss] Re: question on picture captions
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 19:32:25 -0700 (PDT)
I have been thinking a lot about picture captions after Carrie presented very
important reasons for wanting to be generically descriptive. It occurs to me
that in many children's books, historical books and certain
autobiographical/biographical books they would be good reason to include names
to the extent known, and in fiction and other genres it would be wise to
withhold. I guess there is no absolute, and it will depend upon personal
discretion as to whether it will be helpful or have a spoiler effect when using
names and captions. It would tend to be in my case helpful most of the time to
name people since it will clarify text rather than confuse or spoil.
Thank you all for making me see the bigger picture and I will do what is ever
most fitting in the future for any given story. Please let me know if anyone
sees named descriptions that are distracting or detrimental to the story so
that I can modify my thought pattern, if so.
It's great to get lots of good feedback!
Valerie
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From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, May 31, 2010 6:29:42 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question on picture captions
Hi Carrie!
I see your point, but, when a sighted person is looking at the picture, they
might recognize it as Valerie did, but maybe convention is best, because of the
possibility of spoiling the story, (smile).
Debby
At 12:06 AM 5/31/2010, Carrie Karnos wrote
> Hi Valerie,
>
> The convention among people who create image (or audio) descriptions
> professionally is that until the person is named in the text (or movie), you
> refer to the person in the picture as "young boy" or "woman" or whatever.
> That way, you don't give away an information ahead of when it's presented in
> the text (or movie). Make sense?
>
> Carrie
>
>
> From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sun, May 30, 2010 9:31:46 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] question on picture captions
>
> If you know who is in a picture based on the story, do you identify them by
> name or do you label them by sex and age like "young boy" or "woman" so that
> the picture is text independent?
>
> Often when I am proofing the second is done, but I am inclined instead to
> name the person. How does everyone feel about this and what are preferences?
>
> Thanks for your help and input!
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