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trinityofoneSerious business time: My father, who often does work for Amnesty International, is working on a film to help the American hikers who've been imprisoned in Iran for over a year. Unfortunately, his regular transcribers have suddenly become unavailable, and the deadline for which he needs to finish the film for it to make a maximum impact has moved up. He asked me if I had any friends (meaning RL friends) who would be willing to help with the transcription work. I told him I'd find a way to take care of it, because I knew I had an even better resource at my disposal: fandom has always been wonderful at donating its time and energy to charitable causes, and this is a case where your help would definitely be appreciated.
Here's my dad's description of the project:
Thanks very much for reaching out to your friends on behalf of the short pro-bono film I'm producing for the families of Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer, and Sarah Shourd. As you know, Shane and Josh have been unjustly imprisoned in Iran for 440 days. Sarah was released on September 14, after over a year in solitary confinement. We want to correct the misconceptions that still cling to what happened, vividly profile who they are - and make a powerful, comprehensive, internationally focused case for Josh and Shane's immediate release. We filmed Sarah's approximately 2 hour interview (plus a short exchange with her mother, and some B-Roll) on Sunday. I need to write the script ASAP, but first need transcriptions of the interviews. Balancing any tedium in the process is the importance of the effort, and Sarah's powerful story and personal character.
Fortunately, the film is divided into many short segments of about 5-10 minutes. This means each volunteer would only have to do a small portion of the work, which I'm working on a spreadsheet system to dole out. My dad has also made a template so that even if you've never done transcription work before, you should have no problem picking it up.
This is a very real way in which you could help this worthy cause. If you would like to volunteer, please comment on this post or email me at trinityofone AT gmail DOT com (ETA: And please include your email! Thanks!). (Please feel free to ask any questions through these same venues.) If you volunteer, I will send you a link, username, and password so you can download the assigned film file(s). (They're in .mov format—I'm not sure everything that plays on, but they work on Quicktime and VLC.) This is time sensitive, so if there's any way you could donate a bit of time and effort in the next couple days, it would be so appreciated! And please feel free to spread the word!
Thank you so much!
Here's my dad's description of the project:
Thanks very much for reaching out to your friends on behalf of the short pro-bono film I'm producing for the families of Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer, and Sarah Shourd. As you know, Shane and Josh have been unjustly imprisoned in Iran for 440 days. Sarah was released on September 14, after over a year in solitary confinement. We want to correct the misconceptions that still cling to what happened, vividly profile who they are - and make a powerful, comprehensive, internationally focused case for Josh and Shane's immediate release. We filmed Sarah's approximately 2 hour interview (plus a short exchange with her mother, and some B-Roll) on Sunday. I need to write the script ASAP, but first need transcriptions of the interviews. Balancing any tedium in the process is the importance of the effort, and Sarah's powerful story and personal character.
Fortunately, the film is divided into many short segments of about 5-10 minutes. This means each volunteer would only have to do a small portion of the work, which I'm working on a spreadsheet system to dole out. My dad has also made a template so that even if you've never done transcription work before, you should have no problem picking it up.
This is a very real way in which you could help this worthy cause. If you would like to volunteer, please comment on this post or email me at trinityofone AT gmail DOT com (ETA: And please include your email! Thanks!). (Please feel free to ask any questions through these same venues.) If you volunteer, I will send you a link, username, and password so you can download the assigned film file(s). (They're in .mov format—I'm not sure everything that plays on, but they work on Quicktime and VLC.) This is time sensitive, so if there's any way you could donate a bit of time and effort in the next couple days, it would be so appreciated! And please feel free to spread the word!
Thank you so much!
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Date: 2010-10-14 10:48 pm (UTC)Can you comment here or email me with your email? I guess I should have noted that too!
Thank you so much!
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