Halfamoon podfic project proposal

[podklb.livejournal.com]

halfamoon, which is a wonderful two-week celebration of female characters in fandom, has just started. I wanted to contribute something podfic-related to it, and then I found this Awesome Ladies Ficathon (searchable via this delicious) full of little ficlets centered around female characters across many fandoms. And now I have the idea in my head that I want to get a bunch of podfic artists to record ficlets from this ficathon that speak to them, and then collect everything together and post them as an Awesome Ladies Anthology on Feb 13th or 14th. We would also make them available as individual downloads, for people who didn't want the whole anthology.

It's short notice, but they're short ficlets, and I think the end product could be a really lovely way for the podfic world to add to the halfamoon celebration.

(Plus, for those people doing podfic_bingo, it could be a good quick way to take care of a bingo square :D)

So, does anyone want to play?

ETA: The project is going really well. There are over 40 ficlets being worked on by various readers, and the end result is going to be amazing. Anybody who would like to join in, for as few or as many stories as you like, let me know and I will PM you the link to spreadsheet where we're keeping track of who is recording what. The more voices, the better, so feel free to jump in at any time. Yay halfamoon!

ETA2: You can also look through the ficlets on the RPF-only spinoff of the ficathon using this delicious.

Comments

[cantarina]

I'm in :)

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Yay!

So, logistics. Either comment here or PM me with a list of any ficlets you want to do. You can update the list throughout the week, but let me know the ones you decide on as you decide on them so that I can make sure two people don't unintentionally do the same story (though if people want to intentionally multipod something, that'd be awesome).

Author permission will be up to the individual podfic artists to get, so try to contact the authors early, in case they take a few days to respond, since we're on a pretty tight schedule.

Then PM or email me links to mp3 versions of each podficlet as you complete it. Deadline for sending them in will be Feb. 12th midnight, so I can get everything put together to post on the 13th.

[cantarina]

I'm grabbing this one! Well, with author consent.

Rather than have you run around, maybe a shared spreadsheet in Google might help us keep from doubling by accident? We can make and share our own edits pretty instantaneously that way.

I'm really excited about this!

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Good idea. I'll PM around a link to the spreadsheet!

I'm excited too :D

[shiningartifact.livejournal.com]

Just to be all official, I'm in too!

[podklb.livejournal.com]

<3

So, logistics. Either comment here or PM me with a list of any ficlets you want to do. You can update the list throughout the week, but let me know the ones you decide on as you decide on them so that I can make sure two people don't unintentionally do the same story (though if people want to intentionally multipod something, that'd be awesome).

Author permission will be up to the individual podfic artists to get, so try to contact the authors early, in case they take a few days to respond, since we're on a pretty tight schedule.

Then PM or email me links to mp3 versions of each podficlet as you complete it. Deadline for sending them in will be Feb. 12th midnight, so I can get everything put together to post on the 13th.

[weimar27.livejournal.com]

I'm in. I can do something in spn/spn rpf.

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Yes, I bet there's a lot of stuff in that category. You can also check out the link for the RPF-only spinoff ficathon, here (http://realwomenfest.livejournal.com/877.html), to see if there is SPN RPF stuff there.

So, logistics. Either comment here or PM me with a list of any ficlets you want to do. You can update the list throughout the week, but let me know the ones you decide on as you decide on them so that I can make sure two people don't unintentionally do the same story (though if people want to intentionally multipod something, that'd be awesome).

Author permission will be up to the individual podfic artists to get, so try to contact the authors early, in case they take a few days to respond, since we're on a pretty tight schedule.

Then PM or email me links to mp3 versions of each podficlet as you complete it. Deadline for sending them in will be Feb. 12th midnight, so I can get everything put together to post on the 13th.

[weimar27.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

cool idea, i'm in! (and thank god for delicious....)

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Seriously, it would be a nightmare to navigate without delicious. Although I'm not sure if the delicious covers the DW version or the RPF-only spinoff, so I might end up doing some browsing outside the lovely delicious list anyway...

So, logistics. Either comment here or PM me with a list of any ficlets you want to do. You can update the list throughout the week, but let me know the ones you decide on as you decide on them so that I can make sure two people don't unintentionally do the same story (though if people want to intentionally multipod something, that'd be awesome).

Author permission will be up to the individual podfic artists to get, so try to contact the authors early, in case they take a few days to respond, since we're on a pretty tight schedule.

Then PM or email me links to mp3 versions of each podficlet as you complete it. Deadline for sending them in will be Feb. 12th midnight, so I can get everything put together to post on the 13th.

[martinius.livejournal.com]

I'm in! It sounds awesome :)

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Yay!

So, logistics. Either comment here or PM me with a list of any ficlets you want to do. You can update the list throughout the week, but let me know the ones you decide on as you decide on them so that I can make sure two people don't unintentionally do the same story (though if people want to intentionally multipod something, that'd be awesome).

Author permission will be up to the individual podfic artists to get, so try to contact the authors early, in case they take a few days to respond, since we're on a pretty tight schedule.

Then PM or email me links to mp3 versions of each podficlet as you complete it. Deadline for sending them in will be Feb. 12th midnight, so I can get everything put together to post on the 13th.

[nickelmountain.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Count me in!

[podklb.livejournal.com]

:) :) :)

So, logistics. Either comment here or PM me with a list of any ficlets you want to do. You can update the list throughout the week, but let me know the ones you decide on as you decide on them so that I can make sure two people don't unintentionally do the same story (though if people want to intentionally multipod something, that'd be awesome).

Author permission will be up to the individual podfic artists to get, so try to contact the authors early, in case they take a few days to respond, since we're on a pretty tight schedule.

Then PM or email me links to mp3 versions of each podficlet as you complete it. Deadline for sending them in will be Feb. 12th midnight, so I can get everything put together to post on the 13th.

[idella]

This is an awesome idea!

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Does that mean you're in?

[idella]

I found some pieces I want to record, and I got author permission, so yes. Count me in for two pieces.

[reena_jenkins]

I'm definitely up for it! This sounds like a lovely project. However, a few quick question:

A) should we start spamming authors with "Can I podfic you please?" PMs yet?
B) How are we working the format of our (hopefully plentiful) podifcs?
C) How are we keeping track of who's recording what?

[podklb.livejournal.com]

All good questions!

A) I don't see why not! I mean, I guess you could double-check the blanket permission list (http://community.livejournal.com/multipodicity/874.html) first to see if permission is already given, but otherwise it seems best to ask as early as possible.

B) If everyone sends me mp3 versions, I can compile them all into an m4b, and then when I post the compilation I can offer 1) the m4b, 2) a .zip of all the mp3s, and 3) individual links to the mp3s for people who are only interested in certain fandoms or whatever.

C) I'm about to comment back to all the people on this post, but I think what's best is if everyone either comments with (or PMs me with, if they prefer) the list of ficlets they want to do, and I will make sure that if there are duplicates both parties are informed and people can work out whether they want to double up on the story or whether they want to choose one of them to do it. My guess is that publicly commenting with your intended will make it more likely that other people won't get set on doing the same ficlet, but I can also see how people might be uncomfortable publicly naming a story before talking to the author, so that's why PM is also an option. Either way, I'll keep an eye on everyone's lists and make sure that unintentional doubling doesn't happen. (Although I am a big supporter of multipodding as a general concept.)

[pi]

I'd be interested, however my computer is currently broken it should be fixed soon but I can't fully commit until I know when I'll get it back. I'll PM you with a list of what I'm interested when I know for sure that I can record. Does that work?

[podklb.livejournal.com]

I've created a spreadsheet to keep track of everything, on cantarina1's excellent suggestion. I'll PM you a link, and you can come add your stories to it whenever you're ready :)

[diane-mckay.livejournal.com]

I'm in :) Very awesome idea

I'll look through the ficlets and let you know which ones I'm interested in

[podklb.livejournal.com]

I'll PM you the link to the spreadsheet we're using to keep track of who is doing what story.

[juniperphoenix]

I'd like to participate.

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Yay, awesome.

I've PMed you.

I accidentally pressed send on the PM too early, so let me just add that you can go ahead and add ficlets to the spreadsheet before you've heard back about author permission. You'll still need to contact the authors before we post, but for internal planning purposes we care more right now about intention than certainty.

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

I am in. And stuff.

[podklb.livejournal.com]

A truly inspiring speech ♥

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Also, I hope I was correct in inferring you did not want that Hunger Games ficlet in addition to your other one, because I totally took it for myself.

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

No, that is fine. I am considering a second tiny ficlet but I do not know how much time I will have (never having done this before).

[lunchee]

I am in! If you are still taking participants that is...

[podklb.livejournal.com]

Definitely, anybody is welcome at any time (keeping the Feb 12th deadline in mind, of course). Did you get my PM with the spreadsheet link? Your first step will be to go add the ficlets you want to the spreadsheet.

[martinius.livejournal.com]

So, I'm about to start recording, and I was wondering, how much 'header info' do we give? Like, should we say awesome ladies podfic anthology on every one, or name the ficathon? I'm thinking maybe name the ficathon, one of my authors asked that I do that. And name of the story, author, reader, fandom, warnings, yes?

[podklb.livejournal.com]

It's your call. Since I didn't specify, different readers have been doing different things, so the headers aren't going to be consistent anyway. Story author reader is the minimum, fandom is probably helpful because otherwise it won't always be clear within the anthology what fandom something is (although I didn't name the fandoms in mine... trying to decide whether to go back and edit them in or leave it the way it is). Warnings probably won't usually apply, right? But if they do and they seem relevant, no reason not to include them. It seems fairly redundant to say Awesome Ladies Podfic Anthology on every one, because the listeners don't need to be reminded of that every 2 minutes when they go to a new one? But for the one where the author asked you to name the ficathon, then of course it makes sense to do it.

Basically, weigh the fact that these are only two minute ficlets and you don't want your header to be half as long as your ficlet against the fact that these will be played for many people all in a row, and so info like fandom may not be easy for them to figure out unless you say it.