The NCRA Captioning Community of Interest has issued a document with captioning style and format guidelines for U.S. television programming. The 62-page document provides guidance for independent realtime captioners on a multitude of style and formatting issues, including parentheticals, obscenities and other sensitive words, scripting, musical notes and lyrics, slang and poor grammar, and much more.
The guidelines are meant to complement the guidelines that some captioning companies require their captioners to follow. The Community of Interest notes that when captioning companies have guidelines in place for their captioners, the captioning company guidelines take precedence.
Through discussion and example, the document seeks to create a more homogeneous product for caption-viewing audiences. Also included are discussions about hardware, troubleshooting, dictionary building, realtime skill development, and more.
The document will be a key resource for the Captioning Unplugged workshop at this year’s convention in Anaheim.
Download Realtime Broadcast Captioning: Recommended Style and Format Guidelines for U.S. Programming (pdf)
Posted
Sep 10 2008, 08:11 AM
by
Serge Obolensky, CAE