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English to German translations [PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / Television | | English term or phrase: arc | Director's comment: This episode was fascinating to do, because it begins a three or four episode arc, what we call an arc in television. A story is carried over a number of episodes.
(At the very end of this episode the director also refers to this arc as "character arc".) |
| | | Handlungsbogen | Explanation:
Just two URL's to back up my intuition:
The following definition can be found at
http://www.midwinter.de/lurk/help.html:
arc: Eine Handlung, die über eine Episode hinausgeht. Gewöhnlich wird damit der gesamte 5-jährige Handlungsbogen von Babylon 5 gemeint. So etwas wird arc [dt: Bogen] genannt, da sich die Struktur der Geschichte immer weiter aufbaut, bis sie den höchsten Punkt erreicht hat, um dann wieder in eine Ruhephase überzugehen.
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Note added at 2002-03-03 17:09:25 (GMT)
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Generally, I tend to disagree on not translating arc, but I\'m not at home in the film/TV industry, so you might get away with it. For a \"plain\" audience, I doubt Arc is commonly understood.
However, Pschmitt made a very good point with \"Entwicklung\".
I\'d probably use Handlungsbogen in the first sentence, and add a little to the second:
Die Story wird über eine Reihe von Episoden fortgeführt, in denen sich die Person entwickelt.
As for Charakter vs. character, \"Charakter\" does not refer to person. |
| Selected response from:
  Klaus Herrmann
Germany
Local time: 09:21
| Grading comment Thanks a lot!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
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14 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +4 Handlungsbogen
Explanation:
Just two URL's to back up my intuition:
The following definition can be found at
http://www.midwinter.de/lurk/help.html:
arc: Eine Handlung, die über eine Episode hinausgeht. Gewöhnlich wird damit der gesamte 5-jährige Handlungsbogen von Babylon 5 gemeint. So etwas wird arc [dt: Bogen] genannt, da sich die Struktur der Geschichte immer weiter aufbaut, bis sie den höchsten Punkt erreicht hat, um dann wieder in eine Ruhephase überzugehen.
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Note added at 2002-03-03 17:09:25 (GMT)
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Generally, I tend to disagree on not translating arc, but I\'m not at home in the film/TV industry, so you might get away with it. For a \"plain\" audience, I doubt Arc is commonly understood.
However, Pschmitt made a very good point with \"Entwicklung\".
I\'d probably use Handlungsbogen in the first sentence, and add a little to the second:
Die Story wird über eine Reihe von Episoden fortgeführt, in denen sich die Person entwickelt.
As for Charakter vs. character, \"Charakter\" does not refer to person.
Reference: http://www.midwinter.de/lurk/help.html
Reference: http://hammer.prohosting.com/~trekhp/fc_main.htm
| Klaus Herrmann
Germany
Local time: 09:21
Works in field
Native speaker of:  German
PRO pts in category: 12
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