BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Sherlock's on screen texts: what do you call them?

**Posted by saturnR** March 8, 2013 5:54 am

They're not exactly subtitles (they don't appear at the bottom of the screen); they're not transcriptions of dialogue (as subtitles usually are); they're kind of an extention of Sherlock's personality. So what do we call them?

**Posted by Sparrow** March 8, 2013 9:35 am

On screen text. What else would we call them.

**Posted by Russell** March 8, 2013 6:29 pm

Sparrow wrote:
On screen text. What else would we call them.

True. Obviously, perhaps also just wondering if there's a technical 'industry' name for different effects....

**Posted by Sparrow** March 8, 2013 6:36 pm

Doubt it.

**Posted by Mary Me** March 8, 2013 7:00 pm

On screen text sounds fine

**Posted by Sparrow** March 8, 2013 7:31 pm

Or if you like it better, floating text.

**Posted by just_tea_thanks** March 8, 2013 9:32 pm

In television production terms they're called macro overlays. My BA was in communications:televsion production, and that's what we were told to call them.

**Posted by Russell** March 9, 2013 3:46 am

just_tea_thanks wrote:
In television production terms they're called macro overlays. My BA was in communications:televsion production, and that's what we were told to call them.

Yes... that's what I was trying to remember... thanks.