Joy Jeril, Padakannaya Prakash
University of Mysore, Mysuru, 570006, India. University of Mysore India.
D.O.S. in Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysuru, 570006, Karnataka, India. University of Mysore India.
Int J Psychol Res (Medellin). 2023 Oct 10;16(2):4-13. doi: 10.21500/20112084.5831. eCollection 2023 Jul-Dec.
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 -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.
该研究全面呈现了字幕对参与者观看连续性剪辑和非连续性剪辑风格电影时注视行为的影响。向参与者展示了三个连续性剪辑和非连续性剪辑风格的视频片段（有英文字幕和无字幕）。这些视频片段来自英文电影，且参与者并非以英语为母语。在这项组内研究中，进入时间、停留时间、首次注视时间、扫描路径和平均注视持续时间被用作因变量。收集到的眼动数据进行了重复测量的双向方差分析和配对检验。结果显示，屏幕底部出现字幕会在镜头切换期间改变参与者的眼动模式。字幕起始点的时间（在剪辑前或剪辑后）也会影响注视行为。然而，剪辑风格在参与者观看有字幕视频片段时的注视行为上没有产生任何差异。此外，即使字幕在镜头切换期间呈现，参与者也更倾向于阅读字幕而非观看视觉图像。
