Recently updated on February 21st, 2024 at 08:16 pm
Whether your business is in films, interactive gaming, radio, TV, print, or publishing, live entertainment, or social media, you’ll know that your livelihood depends on your ability to constantly keep on top of trends and produce highly localized content that can be easily monetized.
Therefore, it is essential to partner with a global media and entertainment translation service provider that can work seamlessly with the latest multimedia technologies and platforms while providing fast turnarounds to meet urgent deadlines. Thus, the need for media and entertainment translation service is a must.
Media and Entertainment Translation Service by Chinese Copywriter
Whether you need dubbing for a film, translation for a script, or interpreters for a breaking news event, Chinese Copywriter offers accurate media and entertainment translation services that take your content to the Chinese market.
We understand that subtitling a video or localizing an app requires not only technical precision, but also the ability to creatively adapt, paraphrase, and localize content for the target audience. This practical know-how enables us to provide high-quality media and entertainment translation services.
Types of Media and Entertainment Translation Service We Offer
- Theatrical and Home-Video Synopsis
- Press Releases for Feature Film premieres
- Premiering Full-Length Animated Film, Cartoons, TV Program Scripts
- Electronic Press Kit for TV channels
- Video Games
- Mobile Games
- Role play
News Translation
As news spread at a fast rate across the globe, today’s translation needs also need to be met in a rapid manner. Fast and accurate news source translation is vital to many news reporters, who depend upon foreign language sources for regular information.
Film, TV, and Entertainment Translation
There are many elements of the TV and Film industries that require the help of translators and interpreters: be it to facilitate an important interview with a foreign personality, or to transcribe and translate films for subtitling and dubbing purposes.
💡When translating such content for international markets, it is not only a matter of accuracy but also of preserving the author’s original intent and making sure that the cultural specifics of the source material are correctly reflected and understood by the target audience.
Sports Events Translation
In today’s globalized sporting marketplace, professional sports translation services are increasingly the key to ensuring the best international audience experience regardless of the type of sport – soccer, basketball, football, baseball, or swimming – and grow global revenue.
From sports conferences and hearings to global events such as the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, and the World Cup, our linguists have the expertise and experience to make sure all your language projects hit a home run.
English-Chinese Glossary of Media and Entertainment Terms
| English | Chinese |
| dark tale | 黑色故事或黑色童话 |
| audience surrogate | 观众代理人 |
| cameo role | 客串演出的角色 |
| chroma key | 色度抠像 |
| destructuration | 解构 |
| jam-packed show | 内容丰富的节目 |
| large-named | 大名鼎鼎的 |
| live-action | 实景 |
| Method actor | 演技派演员 |
| storyboard | 故事板 |
| English | Chinese |
| prep-montage | 前期剪接 |
| stock footage | 影视素材 |
| voiceover narration | 旁白 |
| video camera vs. film camera | 摄像机 vs. 电影摄像机 |
| viewers discretion | 观众可酌情观看（该影片） |
| Contains sustained moderate violence | （含）有不间断的中度暴力镜头/内容 |
| futuristic-looking | 充满未来感 |
| logging station | 素材标注站 |
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s Media Translation?
Media translation is the process of converting media content from one language to another. This can be anything from news, video, interview, movie, etc.
What is the Media and Entertainment Industry?
The media and entertainment industry consists of movies, TV shows, radio shows, news, music, newspapers, magazines, books, etc.
How Big is the Media and Entertainment Industry in China?
According to PwC’s “Global Entertainment and Media Industry Outlook 2022 to 2026” China Summary, it is estimated that the total revenue of China’s entertainment and media industry will reach approximately US$526.9bn by 2026.
What’s the Biggest Entertainment Industry in the World?
Casinos and online gambling sector is the largest entertainment industry in the world.
Conclusion
Do you have a book to translate and publish? A film to localize? An audio file to transcribe, translate and re-record?
Our in-house team provides a variety of business services for international markets that may be useful to those in the entertainment industry, including multilingual press release translation, multilingual author promotional materials, multilingual voice-over, and much more.
Get in touch with us today and talk through the details of your latest media and entertainment translation project.
Translation Manager
Eva has 6 years of experience working as a News Editor and 5 years as a freelance copywriter. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and a master’s degree in applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne.