Effect of Subtitles on Gaze Behavior during Shot Changes: An Eye-tracking Study; [Efecto de los subtulos en el comportamiento de la mirada durante los cambios de plano: un estudio de seguimiento ocular]
- Title
- Effect of Subtitles on Gaze Behavior during Shot Changes: An Eye-tracking Study; [Efecto de los subtulos en el comportamiento de la mirada durante los cambios de plano: un estudio de seguimiento ocular]
- Creator
- Joy J.; Padakannaya P.
- Description
- The study provides a comprehensive picture of the effect of subtitles on the gaze behavior of the participants while watching continuity editing and discontinuity editing style cinema. Three video clips (with English subtitles and without subtitles) of continuity editing and discontinuity editing styles were presented to participants. The video clips came from English movies and the participants were not native English speakers. Entry time, dwell time, first fixation time, scan path, and average fixation duration were taken as dependent variables in this within-group study. The eye-tracking data gathered were subjected to repeated measures of two-way ANOVA and paired t-test. Results revealed that the appearance of subtitles at the bottom of the screen changed the eye movement pattern of the participants during the shot changes. Timing of the subtitle starting point (before the cut or after the cut) also affected the gaze behavior. The editing style, however, did not make any difference in the gaze behavior of participants while watching subtitled video clips. Further, participants preferred reading subtitles to seeing visual images even if the subtitles were presented during the shot changes. 2023. International Journal of Psychological Research provides open access to all its contents under the terms of the license creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Source
- International Journal of Psychological Research, Vol-16, No. 2, pp. 4-13.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- Universidad San Buenaventura
- Subject
- Cinema; Editing Styles; Eye-Tracking; Gaze Behavior; Subtitles; Subtitles; Watching Movies
- Coverage
- Joy J., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India; Padakannaya P., Department of Psychology, Christ University, Karnataka, Bengaluru, 560029, India, D.O.S. in Psychology, University of Mysore, Karnataka, Mysuru, 570006, India
- Rights
- All Open Access; Gold Open Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 20112084
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Joy J.; Padakannaya P., “Effect of Subtitles on Gaze Behavior during Shot Changes: An Eye-tracking Study; [Efecto de los subtulos en el comportamiento de la mirada durante los cambios de plano: un estudio de seguimiento ocular],” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed April 20, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/14544.