Week 2

TOTAL HOURS: 14 out of 80 hours


Greetings! I tell ya, I don't think I'm ever going to get used to waking up before 7 am. I forgot that there even was a 7 am. I thought that the universe went into a sort of nothingness for around 3:30 in the morning and just snapped back to normal around 8 or so. But I digress...

With week one finished, next up was...you guessed it. Week 2! Last week, I had proofed some transcripts of their new DVD segments, making sure they matched the actual dialogue verbatim. Well, the captions were added, and this time, I had to check to make sure the captions were accurate.

This was actually much harder than it sounds. I had to do some serious sensory multitasking. At any given time, I had to hear what was being said, make sure the text on the transcript I was holding was accurate, and watch to make sure that the captions on the screen reflected both. Needless to say, much pausing and rewinding was required. Every now and then, I would stumble upon a little glitch (a missing caption, a dialogue/caption inconsistency, etc.), but most of it was good. I must say, looking up and down a mile a minute really tires you out.

Once I was done watching the videos, I got to meet these two guys, Walt and Bob. When doing audio recording, the recorders like to be able to talk back and forth between the voice actors, to give them feedback and whatnot. Well, their "Talkback" setup had not been working for about a month, so Walt and Bob helped fix it. They had to run a recording session, around 1 o' clock, and unfortunately, weren't finished in time. They had to be reduced the infamously difficult method of opening the door and talking to the talent face to face. It was nothing short of a tragedy.

But, they did finish eventually and I learned a lot by watching them. Walt was actually a very cool guy. He knows an enormous amount about sound equipment and recording. He's even made music for the Sims. We were talking a bit about different types of mics, and he was saying that they range from 50 bucks to 15 grand. Now, I don't know about you, but my ear can't hear the difference at around $314.15. I have no clue why you'd need to record with something worth thousands of dollars.

And that was more or less it for the day. Between the videos, the recording session, and the whole Walt/Bob meeting, I'd say it was a pretty satisfying day. Joan and Tom were just tidying up a few things on the Earth Day DVD, and I hope to get involved a lot more in the upcoming weeks.