Five Things I Learned Transcribing

Ever since I was suggested for a job as a transcriber I have been doing it pretty consistently for the past two years for reality TV. Yes, reality TV. Knock it as much as you want but it pays well and employs hundreds of people and quite a few of my friends. When I first heard what it is I was surprised that it was, like, an actual thing that is done on pretty much every reality show. Sometimes it is called logging but for the sake of this I'll continue to call it transcribing. Now what the hell is it?

In TV there are writers and they need to know where to find stuff to build stories. Otherwise you’d see a jumbled show about folks just cooking or dwarves running around showing how much better they are than your normal sized ass. I’m sure there is more involved with it but since I am assisting editing right now that’s all that matters for me right now.