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The Executive Master start date: January 2024

Executive Master in Audiovisual Translation, Dialogue Adaptation, and Audio Description

The Executive Master’s Course in Audiovisual Translation, Dialogue Adaptation, and Audio Description at SSML Carlo Bo in Bologna has a structured curriculum designed to prepare highly qualified professionals in the adaptation and localisation of audiovisual content. Within an increasing interconnected and multicultural world, the skills acquired during this Master’s programme are essential to meet the needs of the entertainment, film and television industries.

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Learning Objectives

Acquisition of advanced skills in audiovisual translation, subtitling, dubbing, and audio description of audiovisual products and cultural heritage.

  • Improvement of the linguistic and technical skills necessary for the adaptation of multimedia content.
  • Deepening of theoretical and practical knowledge to build solid professional skills.
  • Access to practical and workshop experiences with experts in the field.
  • Final certificate to be included in your curriculum.

Career Perspectives

The Executive Master’s programme offers career opportunities in the film, television, and multimedia industry. After completion of the course, students will be able to perform key roles as audiovisual translators, dialogue adaptors, subtitling specialists as well as audio description professionals. These skills are in high demand due to the constantly growing use of multimedia content.

Dates

Pre-enrollment for the Executive Master’s Course starts on Tuesday 7 November 2023
Closing date for pre-enrollment is on 31 December 2023

The Master will run from January to May 2024.

Taught Programmes

The curriculum includes three main units dedicated to dialogue adaptation, subtitling, and audio description, as well as theoretical and practical classes.

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1) Theoretical subjects

1. 1. Fundamentals of Sociolinguistics with a special focus on audiovisuals, dialogues, the word-image pair, the related narrative and adaptation
2. Languages and multimodal transmission

2) Practical-professional subjects

1. Dialogue adaptation for dubbing

2. Interlingual subtitling:
a. theoretical part: rules and technical constraints
b. learning and use of software
c. workshop
(languages of TV series, cartoons, films, documentaries, “industrial” videos)

 3. Audio description and accessibility of audiovisual products and cultural heritage:
a. introduction to accessibility and social inclusion (focus on languages in use)
b. audio description:

  • products for the screen
  • static works of art
  • dynamic works of art (sites of historical and artistic interest)

Participation Requirements

The Executive Master’s Course is open to students with a Bachelor’s or a Master’s Degree in: Linguistic Mediation Sciences (L-12), Comparative Languages and Cultures (L-11), Foreign Languages and Literatures, Modern European and American Languages and Literatures (LM-37), Modern Languages for Communication and Cooperation (LM-38), or students coming from the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy provided that they have a C1 English level according to CEFR. Language skills will be assessed during an interview aimed to confirm candidates’ aptitude for attending the course. In the event that during the interview two or more candidates are considered as being of equal merit, preference will be given to the candidate with more in-depth language skills in two or more foreign languages.

Fees: €4,000 + €16 (tax stamp)
(First instalment: €2,500 at the time of enrollment after CV has been submitted; second instalment: €1,500 in April 2024).

Minimum number of applicants for the Master activation: 15

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Why you should attend this Master at SSML Carlo Bo

Studying for this Executive Master’s in Audiovisual Translation, Dialogue Adaptation and Audio Description at SSML Carlo Bo offers a unique opportunity to develop highly specialised skills in a growing sector. Why the Master is a plus:

  • Academic excellence: SSML Carlo Bo has long tradition of excellence and this Master’s programme offers high-quality education supervised by experts in the sector.
  • Practical experience: practical training and exercises will allow you to directly put into practice what you have learnt in the classroom
  • Contact with industry experts: You will interact with experienced professionals in the field, learning from those who are active in the field
  • A certificate recognised: you will receive a certificate of attendance that will enhance your CV and increase your career opportunities
  • Networks: you will have the opportunity to create valuable networks in the world of multimedia adaptation

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Dates of the preliminary assessment interviews:

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The next dates will be communicated to the candidates by the Students’ Office.

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Interview for admission

The preliminary assessment interview consists of a test aimed at assessing the readiness and interest of the candidate for the audiovisual and dubbing sector. A further interview will be scheduled to assess the English language proficiency level (C1).

Teachers

Valeria Cervetti

Editor in the official Rai lists, she works permanently for Mediaset, Apple TV+, Amazon, and other international clients and national TV channels. Since 2015, she has been a second-level editor for the Italian editions of Netflix.

She has worked for years in television and film production and distribution.

She is affiliated with AIDAC (Associazione Italiana Dialoghisti e Adattatori Cinetelevisivi), ATA (American Translators Association), ESIST (European Association for Studies in Screen Translation), SUBTLE (The Subtitlers’ Association), as Italian delegate she is part of the Council of AVTE (Audiovisual Translators Europe) and is a member of the scientific committee of Casa delle Traduzioni in Rome.

Matteo Amandola

Family background in the field, he approached the world of acting and dubbing thanks to his father, actor, dubbing and adaptor Vittorio Amendola. He flanked his profession as a dialogue adapter with studies in Legal Sciences, devoting particular attention to the role of the IMAIE. Active since 2008, he has worked on, among others, the adaptation of “Game of Thrones – The Iron Throne”, “Mare of Eastown”, “Dark”, “Inventing Anna”, “Little Women”, “The Lincoln Lawyer”. “AIR – The Great Leap”. Thanks to his collaboration with several dubbing companies including Iyuno-SDI Group, Studioemme, CDC-Sefit Group and VSI Italia, he has supervised projects for, among others, Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Sony, Warner Bros. In 2017, he won the “Voices in the Shadows” award as best adapter of a TV serial product, for the dialogues of “The Iron Throne”.

Ralph Pacinotti

Lecturer in Audiovisual Translation at SSML Carlo Bo (Bologna campus). Since 2018, he has held specialised seminars on Audio Description at the University of Udine and in 2019 he participated as a speaker in the fifth edition of the International Conference on Audio Visual Translation – Intermedia with a paper on AD in museums. Since 2020, he has collaborated with the Instituto Superior de Estudios Lingüísticos y Traducción (ISTRAD) as part of the specialisation course “Expert in accessibility of communication and cultural content” as a lecturer of module 5, “Accessibility of cultural heritage and goods”, as well as a reviewer of end-of-master’s theses related to audiovisual translation.

Stefano Vassere

He studied at the University of Zurich where he received his doctorate in linguistics. He was in charge of the linguistic work “Repertorio toponomastico ticinese,” an activity he carried out as part of the eponymous service of the State Archives of Canton Ticino. He has been director of the Ticino Library System since 1.1.2013. He has been and is active in university teaching in Zurich and Milan. Since 1997, he has been an adjunct professor of Linguistics, Language Theory and Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Milan.

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