3. Wow! I can do this with my steno skills?
No more lawyers? No more transcripts?
No more commuting and parking?

6. April 23-25, 2015
Realtime and CaptioningTraining (Boot CampWorkshop)
OCRA and Prince Institute have teamed up for you!
Clark State Community College, Springfield, OH
Thursday, April 23-
Enrollment limited to the first 100 registrants- Registration
directly through the Ohio Court Reporters Association- Hosted at
Clark State Community College Leffel Lane Campus (Library
Resource Center)- Registration fee not eligible for scholarship
grant reimbursement
Friday, April 24 & Saturday, April 25-
Enrollment limited to first 20 registrants -First 15 boot camp
registrants receive full reimbursement through the scholarship
grantIn the event of any cancellations and/or no-shows, boot
camp registrants 16-20 will move up in the order registrations
were received to gain access to scholarship grant reimbursement
REGISTRATION
ENDS
THURSDAY,
APRIL 16th AT
8:00 P.M.
EASTERN

7. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

9. Professional Certification
RMR
CRR
CBC
CCP

10. Dictionary Building

11. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

13. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

14. Computer
Software
Equipment
Printer
Provided by employer,
no variation allowed,
i.e., adding another
monitor

15. Office setup
Being independent,
Equipment
Software
Etc. is
your preference.

18. First show on the air….
Surprise! It’s a Puppy

19. Notable Assignments
A - 2015 State of the Union – Fox EDGE
K – Grammy’s
- Presidential &Vice Presidential
Debates, 2012
- Winter Olympics, 2014
- UN Conference Committees, Qatar
- Pope election and
Post-Conclave Events
- Newcomerstown shootings, 3 hours
unexpected, no commercials

20. CaptioningTennis ~ My NEWEST favorite sport

21. Captioning Hockey ~ A sport with a frenetic pace
and complicated names!

22. Accents? What was that? One more time…

23. Sometimes
it’s a struggle
to just keep
up!
Do the best you can.

24. Captioning a show can be amusing!

25. Captioning a show can be sad too!

26. It can be boring!

27. It can be frustrating!

30. Stations will sometimes play tone on an audio line for various
reasons, and it's often ear-splittingly painful!
Ouch! I have on headphones!

31. Working from home, PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB
When the doorbell rings, neighbor knocks, phone rings! It’s your sister-in-law AGAIN!

32. Working from home, PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB
Family wanting to talk for just a sec!

33. Good briefs v. Bad briefs
Dictionary Maintenance
How could this happen?
Zooey Deschanel v
Dzhokhar A.Tsarnaev

34. Mistakes
Prep –Wrong team roster - more than ONCE
Show is different from what captioner prepped
Poker instead of baseball
Placing captions in the incorrect location

35. Bathroom breaks &
commercials
Lack of info provided by
station
Broadcasters & Outdated
Technology
Internet is REALLY the
captioner’s friend – sports,
sports, sports!

36. Good writing days, bad writing days

37. Some words you’ll struggle with ALL the time!

38. And sometimes you’ll come up with an amazing brief!

39. Monday
Shopping 11:45 a.m. -12:45 p.m.
Coverage 4 - 5 p.m.
Cable national news 6:50 – 7:50 p.m.
L.A. news 8 – 9:30 p.m.
Cable government news 9:50-10:50
p.m.
Shopping, 11 p.m. – 12 a.m.
Tuesday
Shopping 9:45 – 10:45 p.m.
Pittsburgh news 10:59 – 11:34 p.m.
Shopping 11:45 – 12:45 a.m.
Giants/A’s show fixes 1:08-1:19 a.m.
Sports show 1:30-2:30 a.m.
Coverage 2-3 a.m.
Wednesday
Pittsburgh political show 6-6:30 p.m.
Shopping 9:45-10:45 p.m.
Pittsburgh news 10:59-11:34 p.m.
Shopping 11:45-12:45 a.m.
Cable national news 12:50-2 a.m.
Thursday
Qtrfinal Basketball 12-2 p.m.
Basketball sports show 2-2:30 p.m.
Shopping 7-8 p.m.
D.C. political show 8:30-9:30 p.m.
Shopping 9:45-10:45 p.m.
Pittsburgh news 10:59-11:34 p.m.
Shopping 11:45-12:45 a.m.
Cable national news 12:50-2 a.m.
Friday/Saturday – OFF
Sunday
Women’s Basketball 1-3:30 p.m.
SpringTraining Baseball 6:58 p.m.-9:06 p.m.
Coverage 10-11 p.m.
Japanese news 11-11:30 p.m.
Cable national news 12:50-2 a.m.
Total time on air 28.25 hours
2.50 hours coverage
.75 waiting on Sunday game to start
2 hours prep time

40. Sunday
C1- 12-2 a HS Hockey Final – Ohio
C1- 1-2 a Fights – Ohio
Monday
C2- 12-3 a Conference – Japan
C2- 430-8a Conference – Geneva - **finished transcript, rush
C5- 1-3 HS Class – California – rough transcript
Tuesday
C2- 12-230 a Conference – Japan – finished transcript
C2 -9-11 a Conference – Cancelled, NOT billable
C2- 4-5 a Bus. Call – Ireland
C1- 1-5 Govt. – Washington
Wednesday
C2- 10-11 Bus. Call – Colorado
C2- 11:30-1:30 Bus. Call - **Cancelled, billable
Thursday
C3- 5-8 a, Caption – morning show - Canada
C2- 1-4 Bus. Call –Texas
Friday
C2- 5-630 a Bus. Call – Ireland
C2- 11-2:30 multiple Bus. Calls – NY
Saturday
C1- 4-8 Caption – 2 bball games
C4- 9-1130 Caption - Cricket

41. Bloopers
Wag a finger
WAG/ AEU/ STPEUPBG/ER
You’re new to the area, welcome
to the station. Nancy, you know,
they’re gonna love you here!
You’re new to the area, welcome to
the station. Nancy, you hoe, they’re
gonna love you here!

42. Questions?