Closed Captioning Service For Spanish Web Series

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Closed Captioning Service For Spanish Web Series
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The popularity of web series
Most of us today are engaged for long hours with
web series. Most of the series telecasted today
build momentum, episode by episode, creating
utmost curiosity among its viewers. Thus web
series are top-notch entertainers. A web series
accommodates more information than movies, but
they are split into seasons and further split as
episodes. Each episode is a short story. You are
free to create a pause to take a coffee break or
open a new tab. People worldwide access
multilingual content with the help of captions.
In almost all the web series available today,
closed captions have been enabled.
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The Spanish series have captions in Spanish for
the deaf and hard of hearing individuals, and
non-native speakers, whereas subtitles are for
foreign language speakers. CaptioningStar is a
professional service provider for all your video
captioning needs.
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Web series are gaining popularity and are
released in various languages. Since Spanish
speakers make a third of our population, lets
discuss a few Spanish series in this article. No
genre is left untouched, from documentaries to
dramas, thrillers to horrors, and crime stories
to romance. Four web series of different genres
are our topic of interest. These series are now
being aired on various OTT platforms.
Money Heist
This fascinating heist drama series revolves
around a central character, The Professor, who,
together with some other people, pulls out a
lifetimes heist, one in the Royal Mint of Spain
and another in the Bank of Spain. There is
something familiar with all the characters in
this series, and it goes as follows, Beware of
someone who has nothing to lose. This makes each
of them strong.
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The breath-grasping series, which holds no
certainty for the next upcoming minute, was the
most-watched non-English series worldwide, with a
considerable chunk from Mediterranean Europe and
the Latin American world. The series was
initially streamed on Antena 3 a Spanish
terrestrial network, in 2017. Netflix acquired
the global streaming rights of the series towards
the end of 2017. After being on Netflix, the show
garnered a huge fan following, which has made
Season 5 of the series the most anticipated
release of 2021. Netflix stated that 65 million
households checked out this series. This
considerable success was mainly attributed to the
availability of closed captions and subtitles in
most of the regional languages.
It received many awards the notable ones include
the Best Drama Series at the 46th International
Emmy Awards and Iris awards for the best
screenplay.
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Vis A Vis
A Spanish title that translates to Face to Face
was a Spanish serial drama TV series produced by
Globomedia. Season 1 (2015) and Season 2 (2016)
of the show were premiered by Antena 3, a Spanish
TV network, which then decided to stop the
production of the series. Fox Spain, another
Spanish TV network, picked up the production
rights of the series and telecasted Season 3
(2018) and Season 4 (2019). In fact, it was the
most-watched pay-TV of its period. It was after
this period that Netflix bought the global
streaming rights to the series.
The plot is all about a female character named
Macarena Ferreiro, who is convicted with a very
high bail set for fiscal offenses, which she
commits for the love she has for her boss. The
hardships she faces with her inmates and the
face-off with the officers in prison are
excellently portrayed.
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Their day-to-day struggle in overcoming the guilt
of committing a crime and their efforts to handle
it creates curiosity. Meanwhile, their families
strive to pull them out on bail to set them free.
The challenges they face to get all this done is
what the story revolves about.
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The series gained a lot of followers immediately
after streaming it globally on a successful
platform, Netflix. Numerous in-field experts
throughout the world have appreciated its
storyline. You get a lot of followers and
subscribers when the content is understood.
Multilingual content is only accessible through
captions or voice-over. There lies the power of
captions.
It has received an international fan base and has
pulled many awards, including the Spanish Actors
Union Awards, for different categories in
successive years. Captions and subtitles played a
significant role in making the series a global
hit. It went hand in hand with the unimaginable
production capabilities of the team, making it a
success.
El Presidente
Creator
The Chilean drama El Presidente is based on a
real-life conspiracy. Its about the 2015 FIFA
Gate corruption scandal.
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The main character Sergio Jadue is the director
of a small-town soccer club in Chile. He
unexpectedly becomes the president of the Chilean
National Soccer Association. Along the way, he
becomes the protege of Julio Grandano, the
president of the Argentina Football Association,
who was considered to be the godfather of soccer
at the time and also gains power among the
executives of CONMEBOL (South American Football
Confederation).
This series covers the participation of Sergio
Jadue with his deputy Luis Bedoya in ultimately
helping an FBI agent Harris. They together reveal
the conspiracy as part of the US governments
probe into global FIFA corruption. They identify
the money laundering and corruption towards these
CONMEBOL executives. The series has eight
episodes, and the Chilean Accent is used here. El
Presidente was released on Amazon Prime on June
5, 2020.
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Both closed captions and subtitles are available
for this series. Subtitles are made in more than
30 languages, and this is also dubbed into 9
languages. Its availability in numerous languages
has crow-pleading potential and effortlessly
drives more subscriptions. At CaptioningStar, we
provide captioning services to any OTT platform
in more than 150 languages to seamlessly increase
your viewers and subscriptions.
Elite
This wonderfully narrated teen thriller Spanish
drama revolves around the conflict which keeps
arising now and then when three working-class
boys named Samuel, Nadia, and Christian and
their wealthy classmates. The three are provided
with scholarships to join an elite private school
in Spain. The scholarship was provided by a
construction company that was obliged to do so
for the faulty construction of the school.
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The elite does take all shortcuts to keep the
working-class boys at bay to show them their
superior wealth status. In turn, the three boys
keep resisting, which pushes each side to take
the extreme measure needed to safeguard their own
interests, leading to a murder.
The series was telecasted for the first time on
Netflix in 2018, with subsequent years
telecasting Season 2, Season 3, and Season 4. The
following season is due for 2022. For three
successive years, from 2019 to 2021, the show has
received the GLAAD Media Awards for the
Outstanding Scripted Television Series (Spanish
language). It had a huge fan base that just in a
months time after the release of Season 1, it
was streamed by over 20 million accounts. The
quick worldwide success made Elite take only 12
days to be renewed by Netflix for a second
season. This series had captions only in English
and European Spanish. Despite just two languages,
it picked up millions of viewers.
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TV Shows top 50 most followed shows rated it as
the second most followed Spanish-language TV
show. It was also dubbed in English.
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Power of Captions and Subtitles
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The above show is an example to illustrate the
power of closed captions and subtitles. Come to
us with any number of seasons and any number of
episodes. Our team would deliver you the most
accurate captions and subtitles. At
CaptioningStar, we work round the clock, and get
in touch with us at your convenience. Do watch
all these series with Captions for the best user
experience. Captions are definitely important for
hard-of-hearing people and subtitles for
non-native speakers.
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