(Archive I) Community Help

[moonilicious]

Transcribers & Betas: If you need a second (or third, or forth) opinion on a piece of dialogue, names, places, etc, we're here to help!

As the entry title suggest, everyone is welcome to help, you don't have to sign up anywhere to do this

Comments

2.02 Once and Future Queen

[unavee]

Is it Sir William of Daira or Deira? The subtitles have Deira, but I've seen it around mostly as Daira. Wikipedia says Deira was a kingdom in Northern England during the 6th century AD?

Re: 2.02 Once and Future Queen

[unavee]

Oh, and should I use William or Sir William? And likewise for Leon?

Re: 2.02 Once and Future Queen

[moonilicious]

Sir Leon and Sir William, yes. Thank you! :D

Re: 2.02 Once and Future Queen

[lily_handmaiden]

Does anyone have a legit source for "Daira?" If not, I'd go with "Deira," but that's just my two cents, which do not count for much.

2.05

[van_x_tango]

for the beauty and the beast episode part 1, jonas is chanting in the beginning, but instead of the subtitles saying what the spell is like it usually does, it just says (MENACING CHANTING). Should I leave it like that?

Re: 2.05

[van_x_tango]

I've also left the trolls name as katrina the whole way through even though she is pretending to be lady katrina, if thats easier

Re: 2.05

[lily_handmaiden]

Is it Katrina or Catrina? I've always seen it with a "C."

Re: 2.05

[moonilicious]

The official Merlin website lists her as Lady Catrina:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/merlin/basic/characters/lady_catrina/

2.04 Lancelot and Guinevere

[catelynstark]

I'm missing a spell. Unfortunately my DVD doesn't show them and it's not in the subtitles provided in the other post.
It's the spell that Merlin uses to snap the rope holding uo the gate at about 37:15.

Re: 2.04 Lancelot and Guinevere

[lily_handmaiden]

I can take care of that once I get the transcript to check the Old English. Maybe you could just leave an "insert spell here?"

Re: 2.04 Lancelot and Guinevere

[catelynstark]

Will do that. Thanks for the answer :)

[sinjah]

Should I add descriptions like laughing or whispering to the dialogue? Eg:

ARTHUR
[sighs] Dialogue.

[whispered] Dialogue.

[moonilicious]

No you can leave those out.

[sheswatching]

So for scenes with no dialogue, do you still want us to transcribe the whole thing?

so it'd be like

[01:23, Courtyard]

EDWIN stands

or something, or should we just ignore those? if not - how detailed do you want the action descriptions to be - like if the shot changes from edwin to Morgana's window, do you want us to note that too?

1x4

[rodneyscat]

Personally I use /ACTION alone if it's important for the story and there's no way to get from the dialog what's happening.

For example: in 1x4 the scene where Gwen brings Arthur food in his prison and he uses the tray to get her to smuggle the flower to Gaius. You can't get what's happening from their dialog, but it's important to know for the story.

I avoid /ACTION where I can and make it as to the point as possible. But sometimes it's the only way to make something clear.

Is that the way to go?

Re: 1x4

[sheswatching]

Hm, so I'd ignore what's actually going on and type /ACTION or type that around a block of text where I actually describe the action?

There are a lot of silent scenes in my epi, and I guess I'm wondering about the scene with the bug crawling into Morgana's ear.

I'd personally like to just skip the dialogue-less scenes, since it's way easier that way :P

Re: 1x4

[rodneyscat]

In the scene you mention here I'd put it like this:

[MM:SS, Camelot by night]

[MM:SS, Courtyard]

/ACTION
Edwin stands looking up and around

[MM:SS, Morgana's chambers]

GWEN
See you in the morning

/ACTION
Gwen leaves

/ACTION
Bug falls from flower onto Morgana's bed.

[MM:SS, courtyard]

Etc.

So mention some of the action but for example I don't mention that Gwen puts out the candles, because that's not important for the story. I don't know if this the way it's meant to be done, but it's the way I do it.