VITAC/Stark State College Broadcast Captioning Seminar

THURSDAY
Light refreshments and snacks provided throughout the day

• 8:30 – 9 a.m.: Setup and light refreshments available
• 9 – 9:15 a.m.: Course Overview
• 9:15 a.m. – Noon:
  Realtime Writing Behind the Captioning
  Realtime refinement for the Broadcasting Environment
  • Build your captioning foundation
  • Develop sophisticated realtime skills
  • Analysis and improvement
• Noon – 1 p.m.: Lunch Break - On Site
  (Bag Lunches Provided)
• 1 – 5 p.m.:
  Realtime Writing Behind the Captioning (cont.)
  Realtime refinement for the Broadcasting Environment
  • Use your Software Tools
  • Phonetic Table

FRIDAY
Light refreshments and snacks provided throughout the day

• 8:30 – 9 a.m.: Light refreshments available
• 9 – 11 a.m.:
  Basics of Captioning
  • Caption format
  • Speaker IDs
  • Descriptors
  • Blanking and forcing
  • Using brief forms and phrases
  • Types of programming
  • Displaying credits
    
• 11 a.m. - Noon:
  Introduction to Local News Programming
  • Prepare for and caption local news programming
  • Hands-on simulation
  • Evaluation of performance
  • How to improve and develop skills
• Noon – 1 p.m.: Lunch Break
  (Bag Lunches Provided)
• 1 – 2 p.m.:
  Brief Forms
  • Rethink phrases
  • How to select a brief
• 2 – 5 p.m.:
  Dictionary Development and Dictionary Maintenance
  • Core dictionaries
  • Job dictionaries and what goes where?
  • Order of dictionary translation
  • What comes out of your dictionaries?

SATURDAY
Light refreshments and snacks provided throughout the day

• 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.: Light refreshments available
• 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.:
  Introduction to Equipment
  • Explanation of captioning equipment requirements
  • Demonstration of audio/video setup
  • Equipment costs
• 10:30 a.m. - Noon
  Hardware Problems
  • Avoiding critical errors
  • Captioning software troubles
  • Profiles
  • Work habits
• Noon – 1:00 p.m.: Lunch Break – On Site
  (Bag Lunches Provided)
• 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.:
  Introduction to Music Notes and Lyrics
  • When and how to incorporate music notes into captions
  • Defining steno strokes to translate as music notes
  • Preparing music as a live display file
    
• 2:30 – 5:00 p.m.:
  Focusing on the Sports Programming
  • General sports dictionary development
  • Style guides and caption formats
  • Research tools and Internet sites
  • Practical application and QC review
  • Hands-on simulation: perfecting captioning skills for sports programming
  • Recap and Review
  • Q&A

Working together to promote quality realtime captioning