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• Should hold a maximum of two lines of text on screen at a time.

• In case of CC - should have a coloured background with high contrast (i.e. white on black).

• In case of Subtitles - should have high contrast with the film (i.e. coloured background or stroke).

• Font should be similar to Arial (a sans serif font).

• Font should be large enough to read easily.

• In case of CC - Background noises, or non-speech sounds, should be added in square brackets in capital letters.

• Punctuation and both lower- and upper-case letters should be used.

• Limit captions to 20 to 30 characters on screen per second.

• Left-justify or Center-justified multi-line captions.

• Should be placed in the center of the lower third of the screen, but move when obscuring important visual elements.

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