Open Captions in Movie Theaters - Jessica Flores
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This this all this! I don't know if you know, but there's a website called CaptionFish.com, and it will show you theaters in your area, what showtimes are available with what kind of accessibility is available. Though it's able to do this only if the theater provides this information, and I'm not sure how reliable it is these days.
Rogan Shannon I checked sadly none to be found where I am yet :/ Got to get this fixed somehow...
My friend got tickets for Endgame advanced screening the 25th . As my excitement started to rise, it instantly deflated.
I'm a TBI survivor, so attending movies for me is a little bit different.
Due to my brain injury, my focus, memory, concentration, and understanding all makes a "Relaxing" activity feel like hard brain work and draining. No matter how much I try to focus I just can't keep up with some of the dialogue, names, or plot.
So being proactive, even though the movie not until the 25th, I wanted to check and see if the movie theater provides that device. luckily they do.
Which is a god-sent for a movie like endgame that last 3 hours long. I always keep the closed caption on my TV 24/7 when watching shows and movies. It's amazing how much I am able to comprehend while reading and also is less likely zone out and drift off into la-la land lol.
I know I will have to go on Wikipedia or Movie Spoiler website afterwards and read the details of the movie, Since I know a lot of things will fly over my head, and due to my limited Mobility if I have to go to the bathroom that may take another 10 minutes just navigating past the chairs down the stairs and in the lobby.
The good thing is that my boy did get seats pretty high up. It may take me longer to walk down, but I get serious motion sickness in movie theaters when I'm too close to the screen, especially with movies that got a lot of fast action scenes. So I feel a lot more at ease with this movie now thanks.
PS sorry I rambled on more than I thought I would LOL
PS, the movie theater is in Charlotte North Carolina is Ayrsley Grand Cinema. A very very nice theater I may add.
We have them in San Antonio Texas just as for Michael Razzen in fb he get them taken care of for anyone.. But in Daytona Beach Florida not yet it's not the same as we have in Texas..
As someone who is a big fan of anime, I find that medium to be easier to watch with others because it's always in a foreign language and because a big portion of the fan base prefer subs over dubs.
I started taking an ASL class at Galludet U. in January. Now I get emails that tell me about open captioned screenings in our area. Turns out to be because a Facebook group started organizing screenings and the theaters found that the turnout was worth keeping them going. Now 2 small theaters are having open captioning nights on the 2nd Sunday of every month where all of the movies that start between 7 and 8pm are captioned. We are making a point to go to one of them every month. The group is still negotiating showings at other theaters. We got to see Black Panther with open captions! If you ever get out to the DC area, join DC Deaf Moviegoers on facebook :)
I plan too!!
I haven't been to the movie theaters in years. At least a decade. Usually when a movie is coming out, I start with everyone else. We all wait months if not a few years before the movie is finally released in theaters. Then I wait a few more months while everyone runs to the theaters and enjoys the movie anytime they want. Then I have to wait again for about a month or two until the movie is released on DVD. Sometimes, I don't have the money though and have to wait another few to several months until I can get it. This whole time, I am doing my very best to avoid spoilers, but of course during this time I usually end up hearing one or two things or more that completely spoil the movie for me. So, I don't have the same reaction and satisfaction that everyone else got. It is frustrating.
In my country (Lithuania) every single movie that is shown has subtitles, but in lithuanian, when the movie is in english, so more people could understand🤗
I'm here bc of Nyle Dimarco's tweet about not being able to enjoy "Black Panther" bc of the closed captions. I want to learn more about "open captions" ❤️♿
I ended up missing SW: Rogue Open Captioning showing in near where I live due to their schedule, my work schedule, etc. I feel you. #notamoviegoeranymore
I wanted to see that movie! Still haven't because I don't want to watch it with the devices. I usually wait till the movies are on demand to see it
i started using captions / subtitles about 6 years ago when i began watching foreign films. since then, i just leave them on. i actually prefer it now because it helps me to more clearly understand the content and minimizes (or even eliminates) having to rewind because i missed a comment by one of the characters.
that said, i do understand the desire to have caption-less options as well. Not only is there a visual impact where captions can be distracting and obscure content, but they can also have a [relatively minor] affect on scenes where dialogue delivery is key (e.g., jokes, plot reveals, etc.). Scenes like this are really the only time I dislike captions myself.
i enjoyed your video and hearing your perspective. Hope you found a decent theater in the area. Kind of disappointed to hear that we don't have more options in the Bay Area.
i am disgusted! i just checked the entire state of New Jersey and there's literally less then a handful of theaters that provide open captions ... and when they do it's very very limited! this needs to change! i had absolutely no idea! Jessica , thank you for teaching me ... i feel like such an asshole that i was oblivious to all of this , not on purpose of course , no one has ever opened my eyes to this so i truly thank you!
Just over the NY border...middletownparamount.com/ in NY has open captions!
We as hoh/deaf people should raise our voices and make it know to theater companies how many of us that there really are that would go to the theater more often than they realize. And how they are losing allot of money because they are being uninclusived to the dead community in their areas where there are deaf communities.
The "dead" community? I'm sorry if your hearing impaired but sans the fact that you don't even care enough to use autocorrect to make a valid point. Captioning across the board is selfish to not only cinephiles but people who truly love the escapism aspect of the theatrical film experience. For me despite its problems it's still one of the greatest joys in life to go out to the movies, and relatively accessible. So to ask me to she'll out my hard earned cash to be distracted while watching a good film is disgusting. Reasonably I agree that certain showings should still, more, be provided for the elderly or hearing impaired. Or a better more perfected hearing device needs to be acquired by theatre chains to accommodate these people with special needs. But you can't ask people who can hear for the most part give up the pleasure of the traditional theatre going experience. But I don't know about LA now but Ms. Flores should come to New York because it looks like here she got her way. I swear I saw three American few movies in the last few months and two were captioned. One the other day was a horror movie and that genre does not lend itself well to captioning!
Silvermoon Drive In located in Lakeland, Fl started showing your movies in Open Caption every wednesday night
I wish I was in that area to see it!!
Exactly! One theater in Illinois did an open-caption showing of Titanic and that was the last OC film I have seen. Since then, I moved to San Diego, which has a decent sized Deaf population but still no OC theaters. (Funny thing though, I did get the AMC to chew out a screener after I won free tickets to a screening with no cc either, despite the theater being Deaf-friendly, but that's another story!)
I don't know if I hate the glasses or the cc reader worse. I think both are an improvement to the rear captioning devices (a little mirror that picks up the captions from the back of the room near the projector. I think the cupholder LED replaced those). The cupholder ones... I squirm in my seat, so I am constantly trying to readjust the reader and half the time it threatens to dive out of the cupholder. Captiview glasses are twitchy, missing dialog a lot for me. I got shoddy ones I guess, because either they caption parts of it (5 mins on, 10 mins off... readjust the card on the box to make sure the box is still sending signal... oh look 5 more minutes of cc) OR the stupid thing dies in the middle of a good part, which happened to me when watching Guardians of the Galaxy 2... And there are a lot of theaters that don't offer any cc at all.
I agree. I think people would get mad if we had oc movies. I think a good way to handle it wouldn't be all theaters, all movies, all showings, but more all theaters, 1-4 auditoriums (depending on theater size) and all showings within those auditoriums with the option of cc devices for the non-oc auditoriums (just in case you don't want to watch the oc movie)...
Seems a compromise while Deaf continue to fight for truly equal access at theaters. What do you think???
thanks jessica. this information was very helpful... and saved me a lot of money as now i'll be adding captions to movies (college setting) rather than purchasing the devices that no one likes.
i wish movie theatres have the open caption on all movies. I have to watch movies with subtitles so I can read and understand the dialogue especially in movies with accents.
Me too...
Pretty much all of the cinemas over in UK tend to use open captioning for their subtitling. It is not all sunshine and roses however, the cinema companies tend to stick the subtitled viewings on at awkward times making going out to see a film on a reasonable time and day next to impossible. Most of the time I would just wait till the film comes out on DVD or Blu-Ray and watch it then.
For those in the UK, there is a website called yourlocalcinema.com that helps you find subtitled movies that are showing.
Can you share any software or devices or apps that would allow a theatre to provide open captioning at least with relative inexpense? I am doing research trying to find options for a local theatre but I can't seem to find a starting point. Do digital films now all provide this service? what about "traditional" film (reel?)
Thanks,
Mike
As someone with severe Tourette's, I don't get to just sit down, relax and watch any movie either. I find the crossovers between different disabilities like this very interesting. I think that's because, throughout all disabilities, no matter how different, the world isn't built for us and we all face discrimination or prejudice at some point in our lives.
I just started watching your videos btw and I think they're pretty awesome. I actually have a couple of questions if you don't mind.
When did you lose (if you actually lost it as opposed to being born deaf) your hearing and how long did it take for you to start learning sign language?
Also, how do you feel about the word "disability" when it comes to being deaf? I notice a lot of deaf people are adamant that deafness isn't a disability, but I notice you seem to use it fairly freely. Personally, I think the word disabled gets a bad rap and maybe the stigma makes it seem worse than it is. But idk, how do you feel about it?
Mmk, this is a very long and rambly comment so I'm going to shut up (for now :p). Awesome channel! Bye :)
Oh man these are awesome questions! Thanks for posting them!
First question: That is something I will never know. My parents didn't find out till 1st grade like when I was about 8 years old that I had a hearing loss.
Sign language! I am always learning it because I never had the opportunity to have it as my first language which I'm kinda bummed about. But it’s better late than never right? I have been really using it for the past 2 years or so. I started with learning the ABC's then spelling everything out that I see. I still do :)
Disability... that word... not the word I would have chosen to label people. Because if you look it up the meaning is kinda harsh. It's something like "conditions that limit a person". Another thing is that the word itself DIS-ABLE makes it difficult for people to see us as equal to them. Especially because you have the word DIS infront of ABILITY.
Also, personally it's not the term I want to be seen as and it's not a word that I would use to describe myself. I describe myself as Deaf now instead of disabled because I feel like the word Deaf fits me and I'm comfortable being seen as Deaf. So whenever I am just talking about just me I'll say Deaf now.
Now it's harder when you are describing the Deaf/HoH/Blind/Handicap people as a whole. At the moment disabilities is the word that a majority of people use to describe us. So for now, until we come up with a different term, it is the word I to describe us as a larger group.
Thanks again for these questions!
Jessica Flores
It was on the ai media page that it's not really a theatres fault that there isn't open captions. Really it's up to the people who make the film and for some reason it's really expensive.
I saw Moana just before Christmas and used the captiview device for the first time (my first experience was with the film Noah and it didn't work)
Krystal Decker thanks for the heads up. I'll be sure to check out that video! But over all I think that places should stop investing in closed caption devices and start investing in open captions.
omg yes! i live in la, and seriously over half of the cc devices i've used have been faulty in some sort of way. not only is captioning being provided on annoying machines, they rarely even work, and it's such a freaking hassle to get the employees to do anything about it without recieving some kind of attitude/long wait, resulting in missing the movie
In Singapore(where I live), all movies in cinemas have close captions by default. However, most of them are in Chinese
It's me again!
I keep enjoy watching your vids.
You know I'm Saudi so my language is Arabic but I studied English in all my studies years and I got A+. but when we come to listening to English vids in RUclips absolutely it's hard to me to understand but because of your CC I felt in heaven!!
I'm like you I can't enjoy watching Arabic tv series or any Arabic vids I keep asking my family "What they said?!" "What happening??" And yeah of course they have to explain to me. That's why I love watching American TV series or movies because of Arabic subtitles that showing below.
Anyway we feel the same problem even in different places.
I hope for you in theatre they put an OC if they know at least there's one or few deaf or HoH people so the OC be shown just in case there's deaf or HoH people.
Hopefully in future we get what we want :)
Agreed! I have been finding a few a bit far away from me but I hope one day all theaters have to require open captioned movies. Glad you like the captions! I do them myself :)
it's the best!!!
Jessica Flores so much thanks to do that Jessica they're amazing 🌷
Hi, is there sound in movies with OPEN CAPTION ON-SCREEN SUBTITLES
Does the movie play normal with sound?
What does it take for a theater to provide open captioning? Is there extra equipment they have to purchase, or is it simply a matter of changing a setting on the projector?
The NewPark Mall in Newark, California, has open captioned films on Wednesday’s at 7:00 pm, for your info!
Judith Fruge OMG!!!!! Thank you thank you thank you!!! I'll definitely will be going to one!
Jessica Flores They are showing “A Wrinkle In Time” this Wednesday at 7:00 pm. Maybe I will see you there?
Judith Fruge I'm hoping to get out there soon! Not sure if I'll be able to make it this Wednesday but I'll keep in touch with you when I do!
I advocate with Alamo and AMC (at the headquarters) mostly. Some at B&B. All three of those have OC movies. Not so recently with B&B. Alamo taking a break till new equipment in. II agree with Krystal Decker. I am trying to get more information, but believe the studios need to do OC quality assurance before the films are sent out to the movie theaters. The movie managers do not know what titles, platforms(standard, 2D, 3D) and which platforms will have CC or OC until the Monday of the week the new released titles come in. They receive them about 10 am and have to have the entire schedule complete by 4pm same day. They do not have time to test the OC at the beginning, middle and the end of movies to be sure the OC works before offering to the deaf/hoh communities. Plus, once they post the showtimes, they can't change it to an OC showing if any tickets have already been sold to the general public. (They might have time to test Tues or Weds before the new release begins showing on Thurs, but then they can't change the showtime to OC if any tickets have already been sold!) My friends and I have posted suggestions for OC quality assurance on every studio Facebook page, but our suggestions are ignored or deleted and no one ever responds. I am currently asking for email contacts to the studios so I can write them directly. I have followed a movie created in my hometown. It was shown once on west coast with no captions. It was shown once in my home town at a film fest ONE time with no captions and not even CC. It went to Barcelona Spain with Spanish subtitles. It is being sold on Amazon with no captions. I followed this film from the beginning and advocated for captions to no avail because it was the first film ever made by the producers(all under age 25) and they wanted the film to be captioned for me, but once it sold to agent, they had no control. Film made in America, but no English captions!
Terri Shirley thank you so much for this information! This information is not easy to find so I am really glad you shared it! I too often get ignored when I speak about the importance of getting companies to provide captions. I would love to discuss more about this with you, let me know how we can do this!
Captions should be available at all times, the people that don’t like it on the screen can stuff it. I’m hearing and would love for there to be captions. Theatres often play the movies so freakin loud it distorts the sound and I end up having a problem with it anyway.
I’d like to hear my movie w/captions not feel it, thanks.
What's wrong with closed captions?
I am not deaf, or even hard of hearing in any way, but still utilize captions with everything I watch. I think I rely on them due to having adult ADHD (didn't develop until my late 20's), which presents as mostly hyperactivity and inability to concentrate on a specific task - even simply watching a movie is difficult unless I have something to do with my hands, really. Having words to follow on screen helps to keep my attention and helps to prevent having to rewind because my brain didn't pickup what was said.
Ultimately, my point is that captions are a relatively small line of text at the very bottom of the screen. They really don't take anything away from the film or my experience of watching it. That is, of course, strictly my opinion, but I would have no issue with EVERY film at EVERY theater having open captions. I think if open captioning were slowly implemented a lot of people opposed to the idea would realize that it really isn't an annoyance or as distracting as they believe it to be.
At the very least all theaters can begin showing 1 or 2 screens in open caption. That's a fraction of the number of screens most theaters offer, so I don't see why that cannot be done... hopefully one day soon :-)
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Speaking of open captions, there is a theater next to CSU Fresno called Maya Cinemas that has open captions for one movie a week. I love it because I attend that school. Also, I agree that the captions should be updated. The glasses are much better than the one that goes in the cup holder, however, as a whole, the system of captioning movies should be changed to something more accessible for all. Plus adding more open caption nights would be amazing!!
Thank you thank you thank youuuuu! I'll be sure to check it out! :)
I know this is offbeat, but you speak very well! My husband never learned to speak because he was too angry at being deaf when he was young lol. He will gladly admit it. He was born hearing, but had spinal meningitis at one and a half. Through that, he lost his hearing, but is completely deaf. Only has 10% in his right ear. I don't think an implant will work but I want him to try anyway.
Well, it is his choice. If he wants to try it give it a go, if not then don't.
Im sorry i did not really understan what open cation are. Does that mean like subtitles? If the movie its in English and has open caption then does that mean it will have subtitles in spanish, is that what open caption mean?
No worries! Open captions are like subtitles. If a movie has open captions, the movie (say for example it's in English) it will have English subtitles on the screen while the movie is playing. You will always be able to see the captions and can't turn them off. Closed captions you can turn the captions on/off with open captions you can't because they are stuck on the screen. Hopefully this helped. Let me know if it is still confusing!
Jessica Flores yes it help 😉🖒
It can't seriously be a shock that people who can hear don't want captions. For 99.9% of people, it's distracting and unnecessary. I would never pay to see a movie with that being presented.
I am sympathetic to this person but theatres need to invest in better listening devices for the hearing impaired or supply more devices. I am not willing to completely give up the traditional movie going experience, the escapism, the immersion of enjoying a good film for, I'm sorry, a minority of people! The activists who push for this are not just unwilling to understand why true movie fans hate this but want to frankly ruin one of the best and relatively inexpensive activities people can participate in life! I'm sorry if people think Im a selfish, insensitive bastard but I love going to the movies and this is horrible! Also, especially since the pandemic this is a surefire way to kill movie theatres.
Well, you can’t *fully* enjoy the movie without all the sound (ie sound design, sound mixing, musical score), etc. Film is a visual and auditory experience. All theaters already offer closed captioning devices.
Just have more showings available with open captioning, but not ALL of them. ALL theaters already offer separate devices for hard of hearing people to use. I can not and will not watch a movie with captions on. It’s distracting and intrusive to what the cinematographers were trying to achieve. Average people may think it’s no big deal, but as a cinephile who views film as an art form, I can’t stand them.
Do blind people complain they can’t SEE the movie and advocate for everyone to listen to their audio descriptions? No. Cause it’s stupid.
Hey Scott,
Thanks for sharing your perspective, everyone's perspective is different for sure. I do have a question for you though, I am curious about when you watch foreign films. Do you watch those types of films since most of them have open captions?
Also, just for the heads up, not all movie theaters have closed captions which is why we always have to double check if they have them before going to the theater. Another thing is that even if a theater says it has captions, doesn't mean it is always reliable. I have had times where I would go to a theater that said they have captions only to find out they didn't or only to find out that devices they used kept breaking on me during the film. It gets frustrating.
For the Deaf and Hard of hearing community our accessibility in movie theaters is not great. We don't mind if the film has sound, music, or dialogue, we just want to be able to understand it. And when we can't understand it, it would feel the same way as if someone turned off all the audio randomly during a film you where watching. And then imagine if this kept happening to you over and over. You might get pissed off. I know I do!
-Jessica
Scott... oh, Scott... you have so much to learn!
Stating that Jessica cannot fully enjoy the movie without sound is an interesting opinion. Personally, I think she has all the capabilities to enjoy the movie; although she may not hear, doesn’t mean she won’t enjoy it. People enjoy things in different levels and ways (i.e. your inflated enjoyment from cinephilia). I feel as though your comparison of blindness to the hard of hearing/deaf is like comparing YOURSELF to.... Jeremy Jahns.
It’s wonderful that you don’t go to open captioned viewings, I would hate to see someone like yourself not enjoying the film. Personally, knowing of your cinephilia, I wonder, are you one of the ones who gets aroused from your described ‘love of the art form and sound of the show?’ If so, being in the same movie as anyone, I’d also imagine you are incredibly distracting and intrusive.
I see that you are very sheltered and unaware of the real world around you. Although, we all totally appreciate your input (drawing attention to yourself, being offensively opinionated, and wasting your energy on things no one cares to hear/read), please go back to your room, parents basement, hole... or whatever you crawled out of and pick a new hobby-the reviews... well.... let’s just say that niche has been filled by others much more qualified