Job Description:

• 1) Operates computerized captioning system to provide captions for movies or taped television productions for hearing-impaired viewers, and to provide captions in English or foreign language: Listens to dialogue of production and writes caption phrases for dialogue.

• 2) Watches production and reviews captions simultaneously to determine which caption phrases to leave in, which to revise, and where captions should be placed on screen.

• 3) Enters commands to edit and place captions, and to synchronize captions with dialogue.

• 4) May write captions to describe music and background noises.

• 5) May discuss captions with DIRECTOR, MOTION PICTURE , DIRECTOR, TELEVISION , PRODUCER , or PRODUCER.

• 6) May translate foreign language dialogue into English language captions, or translate English dialogue into foreign language captions.

• 7) May oversee encoding of captions to master tape of television production.