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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Oct 6, 2020 10:33AM

I'd add that just a music character in the captions is likely not enough if the music is communicating a mood, effect, or something more than just decoration. I find that in many videos music foreshadows events and sets the stage to put the watcher on edge -- which you don't get without at least some indication of the mood, tone, genre of the music being indicated. Another example - playful light staccato music might indicate that people are play fighting, etc. rather than at real odds.

Jonathan

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those who use captions like to talk about how they feel about music lyrics in memes
https://twitter.com/kratsg/status/1310676581287899142

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, at 1:21 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 06/10/2020 11:02, Sudheer Babu wrote:
> > Just want to understand how important are the captions/subtitles for
> > music videos live/pre-recorded under 1.2.2 – Captions (Pre-recorded)
> > and 1.2.4 – Captions (Live).
> > If anyone has come across such and can explain what's the ideal
> > expectation here for music videos.
>
> The fact that it's a music video doesn't change the fact that there is
> spoken (sung) content, and that needs captions. If it was only
> instrumental, then yeah, you don't need captions (though ideally,
> you'd make it clear - if it isn't already from context - that there is
> music playing...it's acceptable to have this mentioned elsewhere in
> the page, in the title of the video, or with a single caption "[Music]" or similar).
>
> In terms of examples...well, most youtube videos uploaded by artists
> seem to lack explicit captions, but that's really their failing.
> Examples of captions done right are, in essence, just the same as
> examples of videos with appropriate captions, e.g.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uir2MGC8g8 (just to pull out a random
> example).
>
> And as for "how important" ... well, it's the difference between
> passing and failing those particular SCs.
>
> P
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