My commentary on creating the Future-Past.com Battlestar Galactica (BSG) website. It's all about the Props, Sets, Filming Locations, and Interviews.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

About frakking time

You know the one thing I really hate doing is typing. I'm a progeny of poor typing skills because I was so much better at pulling the wool over my typing teachers eyes than practicing. Anyway, I finally have my long awaited interview with Ken Hawryliw transcribed from audio file. You would never think that an hour and ten minute telephone interview would take you over three months to type. Seriously, I'm not that bad of a typist I just had a lot of other things that were getting in the way of typing.

So, now the fun is to begin. Now that I have Ken's whole interview transcribed I still need to proof read and edit the frak out of it. The one thing about the spoken language is that it is very different from the written word when it comes to sentence structure. Most verbal thoughts are free flowing. Trying to form complete sentences from free form verbal communication is a daunting task. The most difficult thing is keeping the written interview true to tone and intent of the verbal counterpart without butchering the speakers colloquial nuances.

I'm estimating Ken's interview will be five full pages of formatted html code before photos are even added. There isn't anything wrong with that as the read is fascinating the whole way through. I'm just a bit whiny, it's more coding and photoshop work for me. Like I can really complain. I have a killer interview with one of my idols!

1 comment:

Steve Fronczek said...

I underestimated it's a full six pages on the website. That's even without photos.