Creative Captioning: A close captioning workshop with Holly Summerson

Creative Capttioning: A close captioning workshop with Holly Summerson

Join us in exploring the role of captioning in the production and display of moving-image work and learn how to do it yourself. Artist and animator Holly Summerson will be guiding us through how to embed captioning into moving image works and your wider artistic practice. Participants will then have a go at captioning their own films (so bring any along) or a selection of examples.

If you have access to a laptop, please bring it along and download the free captioning software Aegisub before attending (https://aegisub.org/). If you need to borrow one please do send us an email (embassygalleryedinburgh@gmail.com) and we’ll arrange an alternative. Further information is in the ticket link in our bio.

This event is part of a series of workshops running alongside Biscuit Tin, our annual artists moving image festival which will take place on the 13th and 14th December.

Holly Summerson is an animator and artist focused on experimental, mixed-media and community-based work. She draws on her experiences as a Hard of Hearing film-maker and film lover to develop creative closed captions for film and artists’ moving image.