I talked to my brother's best man. He is deaf, his wife is not.

I talked to them about SDH in subs. He dislikes stuff like
- [action packed music]
- [engine roars] => if you see the smoking tires and the car
- [dark music]

He asked me: "What the hell is >dark music<?"

He asks his wife questions about the plot, though.

Example: It's night. Someone shoots at the hero. The hero dives to the ground to protect himself, while the bullet hits a metal plate above him.
=> The SDH doesn't say [bullet hits metal]
So he asks his wife: "Is he dead?"
"No, the bullet hit a metal plate."

His wife said: "We also have to consider persons who are hearing impaired, like old people. They know what [dark music] means, because they could hear at one point in their life."

What do I want to tell you?

If you have a precious movie, consider describing off-screen text.

Example: If Gianna Dior is stuck in the doggy door and she gets a slap on her ass (which you can't see), describe it like this:



[Ryan slaps her bare ass with his hand]

Since one can see her reaction, no more words are necessary.

Totally agree with what is said here. +1.
And that movie sample is gold ^^;

In reply to truc1979:

Totally agree with what is said here. +1.
And that movie sample is gold ^^;

I agree.

I recently found a subtitling chart for the deaf and hearing-impaired for French TV.
The most interesting part is :

- avoid oversimplifying a sentence,
- always use a dash to indicate a change of speaker.
- place the subtitle close to the sound source,
- respect a color code:
White, when a character speaks on-screen
Yellow, when a character speaks off-screen
Red, for noise indications (not induced by the image)
Magenta, for musical indications (by default, indicate the singer's name and title)
Cyan, for inner reflections or voice-over comments
Green, for foreign-language transcriptions
- use parentheses to indicate whispers and asides.
- use capital letters when the text is spoken by several people or for certain acronyms.

Of course, color in an srt may cause problems in some video or TV players.

I will test this with my Smart TV.

Thank you very much, Lion!

Very interesting...