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Old 05-22-2014, 12:29 PM
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Re: A suggestion: keep this board open by making transcripts

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Originally Posted by Dacrown (View Post)
I've found some transcripts here, these are from s1 to s4e04

Skins Transcripts - Forever Dreaming
Thank you, Dacrown! That's amazing. In 2012, after searching for but failing to find any SKINS transcripts online, I was told at a conference, by Ann-Marie Cook, an academic who studies SKINS and enjoyed contact with its creators, that no SKINS scripts of any kind were then publicly accessible. Erin was present and may recall that.

But the SKINS transcripts on Forever Dreaming are NOT just for the first four series -- they continue onto a second page and cover every episode of all seven seasons of SKINS UK and SKINS USA, 73 scripts! "BunnieFuu," the administrator of Forever Dreaming, posted all 73 of them on Valentine's Day 2014.

BunnieFuu's "Skins Transcript Index" post states: "We work very hard on posting transcripts at our site for you. ... All transcripts courtesy of Twiz TV, SHPW all others from an anonymous source, however, they are in raw format and are not edited yet with the character names... If anyone would like to help edit them with character names please let me know."

That strongly suggests that BunnieFuu generates transcripts by applying dictation software (BunnieFuu's "anonymous source") to the soundtracks of TV shows, when no already-written scripts are available. Because the names of the characters speaking are not spoken, they remain untranscribed. Welcome to the age of computer-generated film and television transcripts!

Some of the SKINS scripts posted by BunnieFuu on 14 February 2014 have been edited by human beings and include the names of the characters speaking. Many do not. And even the ones that do include the names of the characters who are speaking could be improved by adding scene divisions, scene setting descriptions, stage and camera directions, and identifications of songs played in the soundtrack.

Editing those transcripts to add character names and those other features could keep several people busy for quite a whie -- and also generate posts for this board.
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