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Dec. 20th, 2008 12:36 amTHURSDAY
Spent the day transcribing Standing Bear Part Two and starting Part Three. It's always a good thing when this process is on an interesting subject. That is the case with Standing Bear because twenty years ago at work we were doing a dramatization of this subject for public television. This time is more for a historical documentary.
When Standing Bear was being done then I had only been working with the producers a couple years and it was a real learning experience seeing how a television show of this type goes together. There was all the planning years before hand, most of which I'd missed for this program but I got in on the process of finallizing the script, selecting actors, arranging for production sites, costumes and props, making travel, room and catering arrangements. Whether youj're doing 60-minutes, 90-minues or 120-minutes the actual amount of material taped is many times this amount (perhaps 10-20 times as much) which is then cut down into the final program. And locations were in several different places for various lengths of time. I got to go on a couple of the out-of-studio shoots to manage the paperwork and talent payments. And since I'm a deft sewer I got to work with the costumer a little, too.
When the shoots were all finished and rented costumes were returned to the West Coast the locally made costumes, which were thoroughly and roughly used, and uncleaned (phew), were going to be thrown away I claimed the big box full and made several lovely quilts from them. Being on the inside certainly had unexpected benefits.
On an unscripted program which is full of interviews instead is when the transcription work comes along. The 10-20 times rule still applies but in this case ALL the interviews must be transcribed. Sometimes the interviews are highly informative and interesting. Other times the subject is difficult to transcribe because of accent, multiple people like in a meeting, or noisy background; that's when it becomes exceedinly tedious. And then sometimes the subject simply is not interesting to the transcriptionist, that can't be helped I suppose but then it's deadly tiring. This was particularly true for me when the subject was football... OMG some of those people are inarticulate! In spite of this I really, really miss that job!
Anyway today when I was just shutting down to get ready to go to fiber arts Gyda called to let me know it was cancelled due to threat of ice storm. Probably a good thing as when Leofwyna got home she said it was really icy-bad out there. I worked on the sample quilts while Leofwyna put in some computer time.
FRIDAY
I thought the sun was trying to peep through this morning when I woke up so I scooped snow and de-iced the car hoping the sun might finish the job with the ice under the snow. No such luck, the sun vanished totally about the same time I went in. Oh well. Went to get groceries, sent out a couple more job applications at the University and then worked on the transcription again until supper. Finished the last of the poly-blend quilts and counted them up prepratory to shipping them out to Kronberg. There's 20 tops for the church ladies to tie and bind for their African missions. I'll be glad to get them out of the house. I'm back to cleaning samples again, this time the cotton-blends. These will probably go to Kronberg too but I'll have more fun with these and make them more organized so they'll look better and will probably be used for stress situations like fire, flood or tornado sympathy offerings of a more local nature.
Spent the day transcribing Standing Bear Part Two and starting Part Three. It's always a good thing when this process is on an interesting subject. That is the case with Standing Bear because twenty years ago at work we were doing a dramatization of this subject for public television. This time is more for a historical documentary.
When Standing Bear was being done then I had only been working with the producers a couple years and it was a real learning experience seeing how a television show of this type goes together. There was all the planning years before hand, most of which I'd missed for this program but I got in on the process of finallizing the script, selecting actors, arranging for production sites, costumes and props, making travel, room and catering arrangements. Whether youj're doing 60-minutes, 90-minues or 120-minutes the actual amount of material taped is many times this amount (perhaps 10-20 times as much) which is then cut down into the final program. And locations were in several different places for various lengths of time. I got to go on a couple of the out-of-studio shoots to manage the paperwork and talent payments. And since I'm a deft sewer I got to work with the costumer a little, too.
When the shoots were all finished and rented costumes were returned to the West Coast the locally made costumes, which were thoroughly and roughly used, and uncleaned (phew), were going to be thrown away I claimed the big box full and made several lovely quilts from them. Being on the inside certainly had unexpected benefits.
On an unscripted program which is full of interviews instead is when the transcription work comes along. The 10-20 times rule still applies but in this case ALL the interviews must be transcribed. Sometimes the interviews are highly informative and interesting. Other times the subject is difficult to transcribe because of accent, multiple people like in a meeting, or noisy background; that's when it becomes exceedinly tedious. And then sometimes the subject simply is not interesting to the transcriptionist, that can't be helped I suppose but then it's deadly tiring. This was particularly true for me when the subject was football... OMG some of those people are inarticulate! In spite of this I really, really miss that job!
Anyway today when I was just shutting down to get ready to go to fiber arts Gyda called to let me know it was cancelled due to threat of ice storm. Probably a good thing as when Leofwyna got home she said it was really icy-bad out there. I worked on the sample quilts while Leofwyna put in some computer time.
FRIDAY
I thought the sun was trying to peep through this morning when I woke up so I scooped snow and de-iced the car hoping the sun might finish the job with the ice under the snow. No such luck, the sun vanished totally about the same time I went in. Oh well. Went to get groceries, sent out a couple more job applications at the University and then worked on the transcription again until supper. Finished the last of the poly-blend quilts and counted them up prepratory to shipping them out to Kronberg. There's 20 tops for the church ladies to tie and bind for their African missions. I'll be glad to get them out of the house. I'm back to cleaning samples again, this time the cotton-blends. These will probably go to Kronberg too but I'll have more fun with these and make them more organized so they'll look better and will probably be used for stress situations like fire, flood or tornado sympathy offerings of a more local nature.
