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From: L Snider
Date: Oct 9, 2020 6:28AM

This leads from Jonathan's comment...I have seen a few videos in the last
month that used 'sad music', 'energetic music' etc. in the captions and it
was a great way to know what was going on (I use captions on Facebook, I
rarely listen to a video on there).

Cheers

Lisa

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 1:33 PM Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> 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
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> 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.
> >
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