by Craig Medlin

Created on: July 15, 2008

What is a movie? A movie entertains audiences with the directors visionary techniques and translation of story to film. The film captivates viewers by what is happening on screen, not by what is said.

Is captioning good? Sure. There are those who are hard of hearing and need captioning to be able to appreciate what is happening in the movie. There is no denying that. But captioning takes away from one of the main elements of film making. Acting.

After the introduction of sound into the motion picture industry acting became more then being able to portray a character visually. Actors must now be able to 'become' their character in all mannerisms. Including vocally. When viewers are reading the dialog they can't 'hear' the character. Sure, they know what is going on, but the acting is absent from that. The 'voice' of the character is gone.

Captioning is good for some movies, particularly foreign movies. But the majority of films rely more on capturing on audience visually and captioning distracts from that. The viewers eyes are focused on reading the dialog rather then appreciating the art.

It is important for people to understand the amount of time and effort it takes to make a movie, and that watching a movie, even if it is purely visual, is more about the seen shot then the spoken word.

What is a movie? A movie entertains audiences with the directors visionary techniques and translation of story to film. The film captivates viewers by what is happening on screen, not by what is said.

Is captioning good? Sure. There are those who are hard of hearing and need captioning to be able to appreciate what is happening in the movie. There is no denying that. But captioning takes away from one of the main elements of film making. Acting.

After the introduction of sound into the motion picture industry acting became more then being able to portray a character visually. Actors must now be able to 'become' their character in all mannerisms. Including vocally. When viewers are reading the dialog they can't 'hear' the character. Sure, they know what is going on, but the acting is absent from that. The 'voice' of the character is gone.

Captioning is good for some movies, particularly foreign movies. But the majority of films rely more on capturing on audience visually and captioning distracts from that. The viewers eyes are focused on reading the dialog rather then appreciating the art.

It is important for people to understand the amount of time and effort it takes to make a movie,

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