首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Effective Friday, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has declared a strike agai
Effective Friday, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has declared a strike agai
admin
2022-09-23
37
问题
Effective Friday, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) has declared a strike against 11 video game publishers over games that went into production after Feb. 17, 2015. The companies include some of the heavyweights of the industry, like Electronic Arts Productions, Insomniac Games, Activision and Disney.
The strike comes in light of an unsuccessful 19 months of negotiations after the existing labor contract known as the Interactive Media Agreement expired in late 2014. Overall, the strike is an effort to provide more secondary compensation along with other concerns, such as transparency upon hiring talent and on-set (制作中) safety precautions.
The video gaming industry has ballooned in recent years. The Los Angeles Times reports that the industry is in the midst of an intense increase in cash flow. In 2015, gaming produced $23. 5 billion in domestic revenue.
But SAG-AFTRA says voice actors don’t receive residuals (追加酬金) for their gaming work. Instead, they receive a fixed rate, which is typically about $825 for a standard four-hour vocal session. So the voice actors are pushing for the idea of secondary compensation—a performance bonus every time a game sells 2 million copies or downloads, or reaches 2 million subscribers, with a cap at 8 million.
"It’s a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue, " said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who’s a member of the union’s negotiating committee. "This is an important aspect of what it means to be a freelance (从事自由职业的) performer, who isn’t regularly employed every single day working on projects. "
Another major complaint from the actors is the secrecy of the industry. "I can’t imagine if there’s any other acting job in the world where you don’t know what show you’re in, when you’re hired, " says voice actor Keythe Farley, who chairs the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee.
"And yet that happens every day in the video game world, " Farley told reporters during a press conference Friday. "I was a main character in Fallout 4, a character by the name of Kellogg, and I never knew that I was doing vocal recording for that game throughout the year and a half. "
Scott Witlin, the lawyer representing the video game companies, says voice actors " represent less than one tenth of 1 percent of the work that goes into making a video game. " So "even though they’re the top craftsmen in their field, " Witlin says, " if we pay them under a vastly different system than the people who do the 99. 9 percent of the work, that’s going to create far more problems for the video game companies. "
What does Keythe Farley say about voice actors?
选项
A、They are kept in the dark about many details of their job.
B、They are discriminated against in the gaming industry.
C、They are not paid on a regular basis.
D、They are not employed full-time.
答案
A
解析
事实细节题。由题干关键词定位到原文倒数第三段最后一句和第四段。定位句指出,配音演员奇瑟.法利认为电子游戏业很不透明,配音演员在工作时完全不知道自己是在为哪个游戏配音。A项中的kept in the dark意为“隐瞒,一无所知”,对应定位句中的don’t know和never knew,故A为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ZBR7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
A、Theycaninvitegueststohavemealsatareducedprice.B、Theyreceivecardsthatallowthemtobeservedfirst.C、Theycanh
A、Smallcompanies.B、Industrialists.C、Tradeunions.D、Theyoungergeneration.B短文提到,工业家们并不反对政府这些计划,他们承认,缩减工作时间会帮助他们减少成本。由此可推知,工
A、HowmanynativespeakersithadinShakespeare’stime.B、ThenumberofpeoplewithanadequateworkingknowledgeofitC、Thes
A、Aphenomenonofanagingfacebecauseofpeoplefacingacomputerforalongtime.B、Afeatureofascreen-shapefacebecause
A、Itcanwarnofficeworkersnottofrownatwork.B、Itcanreducetheharmoffacingacomputer.C、Itcanmakeofficeladies’e
A、Makealongtimetorest.B、Feelrelaxedwhileworking.C、Closeeyesmoreoften.D、Keepeye-dropshandy.C细节题。短文提到,如果你工作中面对电脑,
A、Radiationfromtheterminal.B、Stressinworkinghours.C、Withoutadequateeye-drops.D、Lessorlittlemoistureintheeyes.D
A、Becauseofthestressfactors.B、Becauseoftheleisureactivities.C、BecauseoftheTVwatching.D、BecauseofthegeneralAme
A、Itmightincreaseairportcapacity.B、Itmightlowerpropertyvalues.C、Itmightleadtoeffectivemodificationofexistingje
A、Theydonotmakeanychangesaboutthetradingskills.B、Theyrealizethefactorsofasuccessfultradetoolate.C、Theycare
随机试题
在托马斯解决冲突的模式中,当一方牺牲自己的利益,以把对方利益置于自己利益之上的方式来满足对方需要时,便是()
《声声慢》(寻寻觅觅)中,抒写昔盛今衰、身世变迁的词句是【】
从无菌容器内取出物品,若未使用,可放回无菌容器内避免浪费。
彩色多普勒血流在某一方向上血流速度增加时,表现为彩色
图14—3—12所示桁架杆件的线膨胀系数为α,当下弦杆件温度升高20℃时,结点B的竖向位移为()。
仪表导压管敷设应区别不同的( ),按图示以“10m”为计量单位,不扣除管件和阀门所占的长度。
下列选项中,不属于固定顶储罐的是()。
“近日,中共中央政治局委员、中央书记处书记、中央组织部部长、中央创先争优活动领导小组组长李同志在自治区《关于开展创先争优群众评议工作情况的报告》上作出批示:地区的群众评议创先争优搞得比较扎实。现将其做法刊发,供学习借鉴。”这是一份简报的按语,此按语的作用是
许多人喜欢吃巧克力,巧克力也是馈赠亲友的不错礼物。但据国际卫生与保健组织2010年年会“饮食与健康”公布的调查报告显示:71%的肥胖患者有经常吃巧克力的习惯。这充分说明,经常吃巧克力将会极大地增加一个人患肥胖的可能性。如果以下各项为真,最能削弱上述论证的是
下列给定程序中函数fun的功能是:把从主函数中输入的3个数,最大的数放在a中,中间的数放在b中,最小的数放在c中。例如,若输入的数为:551234,输出的结果应当是:a=55.0,b:34.0,c=12.0。请改正程序中的错误,使它能得出正确的结
最新回复
(
0
)