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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare to translate
   • Confirm assignment requirements and prepare suitable tools and equipment.
   • Attend to source content and identify topic and key elements.
   • Identify technical problems and mark up source script where relevant.
   • Analyse and address technical or transfer issues through negotiation with clients and technical advisers.
   • Develop and extend glossary and make critical use of other reference material to identify meaning in context.
   • Choose approach to translation suitable to target audience and purpose of the target text.
2. Draft translation
   • Research and apply established translation precedents, making critical use of reference material and additional resources and information as required.
   • Research facts and cultural and situational references and analyse and adapt cultural and linguistic content.
   • Produce draft translations of source texts that are accurate, coherent, and appropriate for context, target audience and end use.
   • Record translation decisions and justification in glossary.
3. Adapt draft translation to requirements
   • Review translation with reference to time code and vision, and match to timing.
   • Adapt to image and audio delivery, applying conventions to maintain narrative flow.
   • Ensure that translation is fit for purpose.
4. Check draft translation
   • Check accuracy and coherence of draft translation and identify and correct errors manually and with computer-based tools.
   • Confirm consistency of register, style and terminology of target translation and evaluate functional equivalence and fidelity as appropriate to target audience.
   • Collaborate with appropriate advisers to obtain independent quality control and incorporate recommended changes.
5. Finalise translation
   • Use technology to format translation according to agreed specifications and end use requirements.
   • Proofread translation and produce final version.
   • Discuss issues and solutions with relevant persons and explore process improvement strategies.
6. Prepare to translate
   • Confirm assignment requirements and prepare suitable tools and equipment.
   • Attend to source content and identify topic and key elements.
   • Identify technical problems and mark up source script where relevant.
   • Analyse and address technical or transfer issues through negotiation with clients and technical advisers.
   • Develop and extend glossary and make critical use of other reference material to identify meaning in context.
   • Choose approach to translation suitable to target audience and purpose of the target text.
7. Draft translation
   • Research and apply established translation precedents, making critical use of reference material and additional resources and information as required.
   • Research facts and cultural and situational references and analyse and adapt cultural and linguistic content.
   • Produce draft translations of source texts that are accurate, coherent, and appropriate for context, target audience and end use.
   • Record translation decisions and justification in glossary.
8. Adapt draft translation to requirements
   • Review translation with reference to time code and vision, and match to timing.
   • Adapt to image and audio delivery, applying conventions to maintain narrative flow.
   • Ensure that translation is fit for purpose.
9. Check draft translation
   • Check accuracy and coherence of draft translation and identify and correct errors manually and with computer-based tools.
   • Confirm consistency of register, style and terminology of target translation and evaluate functional equivalence and fidelity as appropriate to target audience.
   • Collaborate with appropriate advisers to obtain independent quality control and incorporate recommended changes.
10. Finalise translation
    • Use technology to format translation according to agreed specifications and end use requirements.
    • Proofread translation and produce final version.
    • Discuss issues and solutions with relevant persons and explore process improvement strategies.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified, the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least two occasions.

confirming client and assignment requirements and issues associated with media sources and technology

identifying purposes, end product, quality mechanisms, and expectations

using high-level target language skills, including:

code switching between spoken and written language

translating into spoken register

adjusting syntax to match words to screen image

attending to natural semantic order

presenting information linearly

placing subject and verb in close proximity

re-casting relative clauses as separate sentences

using short sentences

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified, the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

censorship rules

specialist equipment, resources and glossaries

purpose and implications of translation for multimedia

mark-up protocols

narration and re-voicing techniques, limitations and protocols

subtitling conventions

techniques for adapting cultural and linguistic content

techniques for matching translation to images or sound

tools and equipment required to translate for audio tapes, broadcasting and subtitling

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