"Romanzo criminale - la serie". Analisi del sottotitolaggio spagnolo amatoriale.

This dissertation focuses on the phenomenon of amateur subtitling, known as fansubbing. Although this phenomenon began in the late ‘80s, in recent years amateur subtitling has spread worldwide, thanks to both Internet and fan communities, also known as fandoms. At first, amateur subtitling was mainly centred on the translation of Japanese cartoons, but nowadays fandoms also tend to subtitle other kinds of audiovisual products, such as American TV series. Thanks to fansubbing, which is created by fans for other fans, fandoms claim that they would prefer to have subtitled rather than dubbed versions of audiovisual products, which is the norm in Italy and Spain. The dissertation provides a linguistic analysis of the fansubbing in Spanish of the Italian TV series Romanzo Criminale. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyse fansubbing from the linguistic point of view, as well as from the point of view of the translation. Furthermore, it aims to evaluate to what extent this translation can be compared to professional subtitling. The first chapter offers an introduction to the TV series and provides an overview of the main events and characters. The second chapter deals with an analysis of the strategies that fansubbers use to translate cultural elements from Italian into Spanish. The third chapter focuses on linguistic mistakes due to calques and linguistic interference between Italian and Spanish. The fourth chapter provides an analysis of some translation errors which occurred during the decoding of the original text. The aim is to understand if this kind of mistake might jeopardize the comprehension of the original message.

Song of the sea: proposta di sottotitolaggio e fansubbing a confronto

The aim of this thesis is to subtitle and analyze the subtitles of the animation movie directed by the Tomm Moore, Song of the Sea. It deals with the adventures of Saoirse, the last of the selkies, the mythological women who turned into seals, and his brother Ben to save the fairies and send them home. Although Italy is a “dubbing country”, I decided to subtitle the film not to affect the original audio track, as the Irish accent and Celtic melodies are a fundamental element in Song of the Sea. I chose this movie because it is a quality product (nominated in 2015 for "The Best Animation Movie”) which deserves to be commercialized outside film festivals. In a second phase, I analyzed my subtitles and compared them to amateur subtitles, created by the SRT Project group, to understand the strategies adopted and the basic differences between the two types of subtitling. My dissertation consists of three chapters. The first provides a general overview of audiovisual translation and language transfer methods, focusing on subtitling. The second chapter introduces the movie in an Irish context, and then analyzes the subtitling process, from the software used, to the translation strategies adopted. Finally, the third chapter describes the phenomenon of amateur subtitling, and the most important Italian communities of the current years. Moreover, I analyzed SRT Project fan translation, and asked them a set of questions about amateur subtitling and the translation of Song of the Sea, in order to understand this world and the fansubbing process. The Appendix includes my subtitles, as well as the questionnaire.

Study of risky situations using experimental data coming from an instrumented bicycle

The aim of this master’s thesis is to study the risky situations of the cyclist when they interact with road infrastructure and other road users as well as the influence of speed on safety. This research activity is linked with the SAFERUP (Sustainable, Accessible, Resilient, and Smart Urban Pavement) European funded project where one of the doctoral candidate has performed experiments on the bicycle simulation at the Gustave Eiffel university in the PICS-L laboratory (Paris) and instrumented bicycle at the Stockholm (Sweden). The approach of the experiment was to hire a number of people who have participated in the riding of the Instrumented bicycle (Stockholm) and bicycle simulator (PICS-L) which were developed by attaching different sensors and devices to measure important parameters of the bicycle riding and their data was collected to analysis in order to understand the behavior of the cyclist to improve the safety. In addition, a mobile eye tracker wore by participants to record the real experiment scenario, and after the end of the trip, each participant shared their remarks regarding their experience of bicycle riding according to different portions of the road infrastructure. In this research main focus is to analyze the relevant data such as speed profiles, video recordings and questionnaire surveys from the instrumented bicycle experiment. In fact, critical situations, where there was a higher probability, were compared with the subjective evaluation of the participant to be conscious of the issues related to the safety and comfort of the cyclist in different road characteristics.