Karl Fredal: Captioning as an Interpretive Act 
[Articulating Betweenity]
Captioning CODA
Karl Fredal: Captioning as an Interpretive Act
Karl articulates the multiple relational layers that make up captioning, as the captioner takes what was “originally intended” and is “putting it through many filters”: from speech to text (which is “in its own way a different kind of language,” he clarifies); through the “creative liberties” of editing that textual transcription; to the filter of “how the audience is going to interpret it.” Along the way then, surely, stuff happens. The final complex literate braid that might make up a captioned video is indeed a marvelous and meaningful act of interpretation. Still, as Karl suggests, once all the marvel and smoke clears, there is likely “something lost in the process.”
