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The Harvard Film Archive has many years worth of recorded audio of events with visiting artists at our Cinematheque. 

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The plan is simple.

1. Once you sign up on the Harvard Training Portal, please email amy_sloper@harvard.edu and you will be given access to edit the Project Sheet where you can mark your interest by placing your name and email next to one visiting artist event you would like to work on.
   
   
   
   
   1. If a name already appears in the “Transcriber Name” field, that set of files is in the process of being assigned to a transcriber.
      
   2. Please note that specific language skills are recommended for some events but are not required.
      
   3. This sheet will continue to be updated as the project lead readies additional files, so if there is nothing available when you view it please keep checking!
2. Within 24 hours of sign-up, the project lead will give you edit access to the computer-generated transcript.
3. Read the Formatting Rules (below) closely before you begin for guidance on your work.
   
4. Start work on your file on your own time. If you have questions, please reach out directly to the project lead via email.

5. When you are finished with your files, change the status for your file to “ready for review” in the Project Sheet. The project lead will reach out to you if they have any questions about your work

6. If you enjoyed your first project, sign up for another set of files!
   

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• Capitalize the first words of sentences and use basic punctuation.
  
  
• Italicize the titles of films, books, plays, periodicals, databases, and websites
  
  
• Place titles in quotation marks if the source is part of a larger work. Television episodes, essays, chapters, poems, webpages, songs, and speeches are placed in quotation marks.
  
  
• Italicize foreign words used within English language sections. These include words that do not appear in Webster’s, etc.
  
  • For example, do not italicize “kimono”, “futon”, or “honcho”. 
  • Do italicize words such as taiyozoku

• Use italics to signal a speakers emphasis of a word or phrase. For example:
  • "By and large discussion of Hollywood melodrama has revolved around women generally dismissed, originally as trashy romances, weepies, films directed to a female audience, which ultimately then offered an opportunity for applying feminist readings."
    

• Use of Flags
  
  • Flags appear in place of a word, phrase, or section that you cannot hear, confirm, or understand
  • Within a sentence, format flags with a space on either side of the bracket
  • Use ALL-CAPS for all flag text inside of brackets
  • Use [INAUDIBLE] to denote words or section that can not be heard
  • Use [?FLAGGED WORD?] to denote words or proper nouns that can not be confirmed
    
  • Use [UNKNOWN] to denote a words or sections that you can hear but have no guess as to what is being said
    
    
• Speaker Identification
  
  • Use names if known (full names without titles) such as Haden Guest, David Pendleton, Agnes Varda
    
  • Label unidentified speakers as they appear in the raw transcript: Unknown Speaker
    
  • All audience members (present during the q/a sections) will be labeled as Audience, even if name is given
    
    
• Enhanced Audio Description
  • Audio descriptions such as [APPLAUSE] and [LAUGHTER] should be included whenever possible
    • These should be put on their own line, for example:

      • Haden Guest 00:15
        

        Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Haden Guest. I'm director of the Harvard Film Archive.
        

        [APPLAUSE] 00:42
        

        Haden Guest 00:50
        

        I consider Kelly Reichardt to be one of the great American filmmakers, not just of today, but of all time.

  • Provide significant information in all caps (and brackets) and avoid editorializing. 
    • Please remove the speaker name for these sections, for example: 

      [THE SPEAKER TESTS THE MICROPHONE] 
      
      

• Timestamps
  • Please leave timestamps that occur at the beginning of a speaker's section in your transcript document
  • If timestamps occur in the middle of a speaker's segment or sentence, you can remove them. For example:

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