Our DNA
Accessibility, translation: it's more than a mission, it's a calling
“In 2011, when we founded Blue Elements with Sidonie Bouchet, our ambition was straightforward yet ambitious: to transform live captioning and subtitling in general. Not just the offering. That came later. First, we focused on the method, the tools, and the subtitler’s craft.
We started by rethinking the method, which quickly led us to rethink the tools. A good part of the company’s resources were allocated to researching and experimenting with new solutions.
We then created an offer that differed from what was usually available. It was more flexible, modern, and adapted to the business.
By the end of 2012, we had started working with our own tools. That marked the beginning of our journey.
For almost 14 years, our methods and tools have evolved, and our business has changed thanks to our expert and passionate teams who launch and support all our projects.
The fundamental element at Blue Elements is people. In this age of automation and AI, it’s important to remember that educated men and women make everything possible.
The audiovisual world is constantly evolving, and at Blue, we’re evolving with it, hands on the keyboard and eyes on the future.”
Christophe Lartilleux – CEO at Blue Elements
Blue highlights
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2011
Creation of Blue Elements in Nanterre. The collaboration with Canal+ and M6 begins.
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2013
The collaboration with TF1 begins.
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2014
Production launch of our software, Best (Blue Elements Subtitling Technology), for live captioning, and later for closed captioning.
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2015
Creation of Blue West in Montreal, Quebec, and launch of services.
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2018
Start of encoding and "ready to broadcast files" supply services & creation of Hubsub, our interactive subtitling platform.
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2022
Blue West Quebec and Blue Elements Nanterre become Blue Elements Bordeaux. Blue Elements starts a new adventure in southwest France!
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2023
Playsub, our new closed captioning software, goes into production & audio description services begin.
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2024
The collaboration with CNews begins (from 6 a.m. to 1 a.m., Monday to Sunday).
Integration of artificial intelligence tools for subtitling.
Blue in numbers
The Blue Team
Our management and support team is made up exclusively of professionals
in subtitling and translation.
Sidonie Bouchet
Chief Executive Officer
Sidonie Bouchet cut her teeth in teaching and live and closed captioning before founding Blue Elements with Christophe Lartilleux.
Christophe Lartilleux
Chief Executive Officer
A graduate in philosophy and literature, Christophe Lartilleux specialized in live and closed captioning before teaming up with Sidonie Bouchet to create and develop Blue Elements.
Noémie Fontanié
Chief Operating Officer
Noémie Fontanié has been translating and adapting for the audiovisual industry, specializing in subtitling, for 15 years, and is now putting her expertise at the service of Blue Elements.
Charline Bordat
Post Production Manager
Johanna Revidat
Post Production Manager
Lucie Morel
Post Production Supervisor
Trained as translators, our post production team handles your orders
and coordinates production with talent and cheerfulness.
