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When supertitles were introduced, many opera insiders rightly predicted that the technology would render moot the argument for translating librettos to improve audience comprehension.
These days even companies that champion this practice, like the adventurous Opera Theater of St . Louis whose season ended on June 29, routinely use supertitles as a crutch for audience comprehension of the librettos.
However, at the initial "Deutsche Messe und Sprachstunde" ("German Mass and Language Lesson"), an intensive three-hour concert and refresher German course, audience comprehension revealed itself to be so low that an open-book sing-along was substituted for a brief period of dictation.
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And I applaud the decision to perform the work in a good English translation (David Drew and Michael Geliot) without relying on English titles to assist the audience's comprehension of the text.
It's all about inserting moments that entice an audience's comprehension as they flag your story and characters.
What is within the control of those who are left to write about the visual arts is the degree to which they attempt to balance what Kuspit refers to as the metaphysical -- to engage the depth of art and make it explicit -- with the journalistic respect for the audience's comprehension.
Audience perception and comprehension improves with addressing audience composition, content of lectures and workshops, delivery by the lecturers and on-going dynamic modification based on feedback from all participants.
In 1999, Anderson and a team of researchers, some of which were his colleagues at Nickelodeon, studied how episode repetition affected comprehension, audience participation, and visual attention.
Prior to administering the survey to the full sample, cognitive interviews and pilot testing of the web survey were conducted with a small sample of the target audience to assess comprehension of survey questions, obtain feedback on the appropriateness and clarity of certain words and response categories, and gauge timing for overall survey length.
Another important factor in developing this skill set was receiving feedback to evaluate the logic and clarity of the presentation, as well as its effectiveness in maintaining the target audience's interest and comprehension.
The Stranger does a masterful job of engaging the audience and getting their comprehension of the story going fast and strong.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com