You should go to a filk where judyfilksign is and watch. Or maybe someone has posted her on U-tube. She's quite talented--was nominated for a "best performer" award at OVFF for her signing.
I've seen her dancing to Kathy Mar's Edward (it has a line "Edward, I am dancing in your snow"); she explained that the first time, she got up to sign and tripped, and so turned it into a dance step and incorporated it into the translation of the whole song rather than admit it was accidental.
I understand (also from Judy) that The Wiggles put it in their contract for sign language interpreters that their interpreters must wiggle to the music...but that is very unusual.
As to the stuff on computers today, it seems to be a combination of computer- or pre-generated effects/images that the imaging program has canned regardless of the album/song playing, combined with something like an oscilliscope, connected to volume only, from what I've seen. Though I can't claim to have seen everything out there (at least I hope I can't).
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I've seen her dancing to Kathy Mar's Edward (it has a line "Edward, I am dancing in your snow"); she explained that the first time, she got up to sign and tripped, and so turned it into a dance step and incorporated it into the translation of the whole song rather than admit it was accidental.
I understand (also from Judy) that The Wiggles put it in their contract for sign language interpreters that their interpreters must wiggle to the music...but that is very unusual.
As to the stuff on computers today, it seems to be a combination of computer- or pre-generated effects/images that the imaging program has canned regardless of the album/song playing, combined with something like an oscilliscope, connected to volume only, from what I've seen. Though I can't claim to have seen everything out there (at least I hope I can't).