LESSONS IN TRANSCRIBING A POEM FROM VIDEO

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
August 25, 2005

I am now starting to re-visit transcribing a poem in American Sign  
Language...Take a look at this web area...I will post more about this  
tomorrow...

Transcribing from Video into SignWriting
http://signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/

We will have fun sharing different transcriptions later...smile...

Val ;-)

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On Dec 4, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> December 4, 2004
>
> Dear SignWriting List...
> Continuing where we left off a few weeks ago...We are writing this  
> poem:
>
> LESSONS IN TRANSCRIBING A POEM FROM VIDEO
> http://www.signwriting.org/lessons/transcribe/poetry/oneharbor
>
> LESSON ONE:
>  1. The signer is facing you on the video (Receptive View).
>  2. We are writing the signs from our point of view (Expressive View).
>
> It is true that video can be transcribed in several different ways,  
> including from the Receptive View. For these lessons, we are  
> choosing to write from the Expressive View. We are using SignWriter  
> DOS and SignWriter Java, since at this time, those two programs are  
> the most complete.
>
> Stefan has been kind enough to send me his entire SignWriter DOS  
> document, with the whole poem transcribed! So I am now going to  
> make a better looking document for the web, by opening  
> Stefan's .SGN file in SignWriter Java, and creating screen captures  
> of the better-looking graphics - and then posting his transcription  
> on the web. Then I will write my version and post it side by side...
>
> To see how I create this web document, see a new group of messages  
> in the future, entitled:
>
> CREATING WEB PAGES WITH SIGNWRITER DOS AND JAVA...
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>