I worked on a story for CalMatters about the challenges people who are deaf face when looking for work or to advance their careers. The CalMatters visual team decided they wanted to embed video pull quotes that showed people sharing a quote from their story in American Sign Language.
Before the filming date, I looked into best practices for filming sign language so that it is legible to people who are deaf. After researching a variety of sources such as The Daily Moth, I made some adjustments to how I would film an interview with a person who is hearing. I decided that I would film this pull quote in front of a plain wall so that the background would not interfere with the speaker's hands and that I would not film any close ups on the speaker's hands so as not to miss any part of what they signed.
I then met up with Drez Brownridge, one of the people sharing their story for this article, and writer Adam Echelman (along with an interpreter) to film the video. The visuals team then worked with an interpreter to add closed captioning to the video.
Before the filming date, I looked into best practices for filming sign language so that it is legible to people who are deaf. After researching a variety of sources such as The Daily Moth, I made some adjustments to how I would film an interview with a person who is hearing. I decided that I would film this pull quote in front of a plain wall so that the background would not interfere with the speaker's hands and that I would not film any close ups on the speaker's hands so as not to miss any part of what they signed.
I then met up with Drez Brownridge, one of the people sharing their story for this article, and writer Adam Echelman (along with an interpreter) to film the video. The visuals team then worked with an interpreter to add closed captioning to the video.