Labor Day Movie

I’m back from a fabulous time at the ALDAcon in Colorado Springs!  I met a lot of amazing people, and learned a lot as well.  And I got to practice my signing, because almost everyone there signs at least a little bit!  I was sad to leave, and was actually crying along with many other people when we said our final goodbyes yesterday.  I can’t wait to attend next year, and Brandt and Josie, this is fair warning—you’re both going no matter what!  It will be in Indianapolis in late October, so we can have a nice (looong) road trip, and I’m recruiting anyone else who can fit in our car.

Unfortunately, I’m still recovering from Altitude Sickness (did you know that you can also experience bad effects when you return to low altitudes?  I found that out the hard way!), so I need another day or so to start tackling my notes.  I will also find out tomorrow whether or not my ASL Level 4 (or repeat of Level 3) class has enough people, so I might be running off to class at the last second.  I’m hopeful, but not expecting it to make…

Since today was a holiday, that meant that we could actually attend a matinee Open Captioned movie (the one day a week there is an afternoon showing in OC; the only nighttime showing is on Tuesday nights).  We had 4 choices, and I let Brandt pick.  The American is new this week and has a 61% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so knowing next to nothing about it, we decided to see it.  It wasn’t our style, and left us pretty confused, but, the captioning was perfect and I never heard anyone complain about it.  There were a lot of older people in the theater, and most of the actors had accents, so I imagine the captioning was a big help to many people watching.  I am very proud of the movie theater company for adding something new:  they put big laminated signs on easels outside each of the theaters that was showing an OC movie, announcing that it was captioned.  They’ve always taped little signs to the cash registers at the box office, but these new signs looked very professional.  Now if I could just get them to show captioned movies more than 2 days a week…

One of the workshops I attended at ALDAcon was about movie theater captioning, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it!