Singapore University of Social Sciences

TNT513 Media and Entertainment Localisation prepares students for a career in media and entertainment industry. It equips students with translation skills specific to audio-visual works and projects. Feature films, television programmes, podcast, social media videos, live streaming, video games are some of the genres to be covered in this course. The focus of the course is two-fold. First, students will hone their subtitling skills using specific software. Captioning and dubbing will also be explored. Students will engage in real-life social media projects by subtitling for videos and live-streaming services. Second, they will acquire skills for video games localisation through hands-on experience. They will use advanced localisation technologies and content management system to carry out video games editing, translation, subtitling/dubbing and localisation. Industrial experts will be invited to train and supervise students on a specific game localisation project. At the end of the course, students will be able to provide subtitling service independently, using the latest software.