Podfic Promotions

[knight_tracer]

Open for sign ups June 9 to June 22 on DW, LJ, or tumblr


Hockey Big Bang now welcomes art, mixes and PODFIC as compliments to the big bang fics. The minimum requirement is to record one scene. INFO | SIGN UP

BANDOM BIG BANG - Sadly this one does not have a fancy graphic (hence the all caps), I'll have to fix that for next year.
COME ON!
You know you want to create a mix for a podfic, doesn't that sound fun?
Anyone got cool graphic/art skills? Come create podfic cover art

Comments

[knight_tracer]

It was a really positive discussion, so I'm very pleased my suggestions were used! Thanks again for the support there. It doesn't stop anyone from possibly recording the whole story, but this is much more user friendly!

Pod_together is awesome! I am going a touch over board with it, but I am very excited. It has also generated a really interesting discussion in email with an author at the moment. I was a touch over zealous with enthusiasm, when thefourthvine suggested possibly adding to the bp statement that podficcers should feel free to tweak the text for podfic.

\o/ podfic positive things!

[paraka]

Honestly, I think podficcing scenes are the only way to include podfic-as-art in BBs without significantly altering the format of BBs. It's just not fair to expect podficcers to make a full podfic of a fic that:
1) By definition is supposed to be long.
2) Often podficcers have no way of knowing how long a story is (word cound generally isn't included with summaries in claims posts)
3) Most BBs only give artists rough drafts to work from and authors can tweek/finish during the art period.
4) Art periods generally aren't that long.

So I'm really glad to see the precedent set in the rules of a BB. :)

And yeah, some podficcers will tackle the whole fic, or will post a scene for the due date but go back and finish the podfic later. But there's also going to be people who find a fic summary interested but are underwhelmed by the fic, and now they won't be obligated to force their way through it.

And good luck with pod_together, I'm still debating whether or not I should sign up or not. I don't want to leave myself overwhelmed. :S

[knight_tracer]

I definitely agree with you! There's no way I could agree to podfic something that long, sight unseen, the whole idea makes me flinch. I hope this BB goes well, so it can be a format other people might want to follow. Someone's actually done an audio trailer for bbb art, but I don't think that one has been posted yet.

\o/ pod_together \o/ I saw that you did sign up \o/ It's going to be awesome.