Редакторська підготовка перекладів науково-популярних серіалів

Abstract

The specifics of popular science television series are revealed and the general approaches to editing of this kind of products are outlined. The role of the editor at all stages of the creation of the translation for popular science television series is examined, in particular, during: 1) comprehensive analysis of the original product in order to find out its features that are important for the further work on the text; 2) creating the translation and its editing; 3) recording the audio track (voice-over).It is indicated that only the mutual work of the editor and the rest of the team involved in the creation of the adequate translation can ensure the high-quality translation of popular science television series, because only the combination of the talents of all participants produces a perfectly recreated product that the Ukrainian audience will fully apprehend.One of the editor’s main tasks is to ensure the adequacy of the translation to the original product. It lies in the full transfer of main content, shape, emotionally-evaluative and aesthetic components of the original product by means of a different language while maintaining a balance between the whole and the particular, and provides an equal understanding of both explicit and implicit information in the original text and its translation. The connection between the translation and its audience must be the same that existed between the original product and its recipient.It is concluded that the editor’s participation is important at every stage of creating the adequate translation of popular science audiovisual product, from the first viewing of the original product to the audio editing of the translation. This optimizes the work of the whole team and provides an opportunity to correct errors immediately after they occur, allowing to get quality results without the necessity to make changes in text and audio track repeatedly.