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Principles of Transcription
These are the principles to which I adhere in transcription, whose wellspring is that the transcription should be complete, yet concise and easy to read.
- By "complete", I mean that all intelligible dialogue and all significant events, including changes in scene, are included.
- Aside from changes in scene, significant events include most actions taken by characters and perhaps descriptions of scenes.
- A scene is noted in a level 3 header (see e.g. the transcript of the episode "The Math Book"). I have yet to apply this to the other transcripts.
- If a significant action occurs shortly before, during, or shortly after a line, it is included therein:
Milo: (rides up on his bike) Hey. Guys? - Otherwise, it receives its own paragraph.
- Dialogue is transcribed v…
- Aside from changes in scene, significant events include most actions taken by characters and perhaps descriptions of scenes.