Em busca do Wonderwall: a tradução para produção de legendas de canções em videoclipes e shows

Abstract

This capstone project delves into the translation procedures employed in subtitling music videos, a relatively unexplored area within Audiovisual Translation research. Through a descriptive, comparative, and textual analysis, it examines the strategies adopted by professionals when translating excerpts from music videos broadcast on TVZ and shows on the Bis channel. Ten excerpts were selected as the corpus for analysis, based on the translation procedures outlined by Barbosa (1990). The research reveals the complexities of translating songs, and the significant impact of translation choices on the viewer’s experience. It demonstrates that a single procedure can be interpreted in multiple ways. The findings highlight modulation as the most frequent procedure, providing greater flexibility to handle idiomatic and culturally specific expressions that often lack direct equivalents. This research contributes to the field of Audiovisual Translation by deepening our understanding of the challenges and strategies involved in subtitling songs.