Forum: Subtitling
Topic: Subtitling a 100 minutes film - How many words?
Poster: raweck
Post title: Breakdown
[quote]Halo230395 wrote:
[quote]Andrei Albu wrote:
The 100-minute movie can have somewhere between 10,000 - 12,000 words, [/quote]
This shows that U have not done your math. For this to be true you would have to have 100 - 120 word per minute( 10,000 words divided by 100 minutes). You try speaking 1 word every second. [/quote]
I've just downloaded subtitles and broke files down:
Matrix (1999)
02h30
12,119 words
1,834 unique words
152 sentences
Revenant (2015)
02h36
8,941 words
1,570 unique words
72 sentences
Joker (2019)
02h02
11,275 words
1,864 unique words
168 sentences
Disclaimer:
"I run. He runs. She runs. I'm running now."
9 words
8 unique words
4 sentences
Topic: Subtitling a 100 minutes film - How many words?
Poster: raweck
Post title: Breakdown
[quote]Halo230395 wrote:
[quote]Andrei Albu wrote:
The 100-minute movie can have somewhere between 10,000 - 12,000 words, [/quote]
This shows that U have not done your math. For this to be true you would have to have 100 - 120 word per minute( 10,000 words divided by 100 minutes). You try speaking 1 word every second. [/quote]
I've just downloaded subtitles and broke files down:
Matrix (1999)
02h30
12,119 words
1,834 unique words
152 sentences
Revenant (2015)
02h36
8,941 words
1,570 unique words
72 sentences
Joker (2019)
02h02
11,275 words
1,864 unique words
168 sentences
Disclaimer:
"I run. He runs. She runs. I'm running now."
9 words
8 unique words
4 sentences