Amplirecathon 2013 Announcement Post
Jul. 3rd, 2013 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
podmodWelcome to our fourth year of Amplirecathon, the podfic recs fest! All podfic enthusiasts are welcome and encouraged to sign up.
SIGNUP
Time Schedule
We're posting the sign-up post today, on Wednesday, July 3. The festival itself lasts for two weeks: Wednesday, July 17 to Wednesday, July 31.
Each day, one or more people will post podfic recs to the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
amplificathon/![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
amplificathon communities. Participation is simple: you post on the date you claimed during sign up. You can choose as many or as few days as you like, but we do ask that if you claim a day that you post on that day.
New this year: Halfway through posting, on Wednesday, July 24th, we will have Cover Art Day, where we celebrate some of the amazing cover art that has been created for podfics. If you have cover art you'd like to rec, please sign up to post on that day, and we will also have put up several mod posts that center around the topic of cover art :)
Description
Your rec post can be anything you want to share: one story, stories from one fandom, random stories you like, or a thematic rec list. We strongly encourage you to include new podfic and new readers—hopefully at least a few on each list that were released in the time since the last round of amplirecathon.
Descriptions of the podfic can be as simple or detailed as you want them to be. You can simply list the basic info (fandom, reader, name, author, length, and link) or you can go into depth about why you are recommending this particular podfic. Readers (and potential listeners) tend to love hearing what makes a podfic special to you: the details of the story and its presentation, your response to the recording, or the reasons the reading resonates with you personally. If you want ideas for how to put your feelings about podfics into words, you can check out this post. One last thing: qualified recs are fine, but if you are recommending it, please focus on what's good about it as well. :)
Prompts
If you want to see what kinds of rec posts fans have made in previous years, check out Amplirecathon 2010, Amplirecathon 2011, and Amplirecathon 2012. You can use these as models or come up with completely different and new themes and formats. You may especially want to look at some of the ways reccers experimented with audio recs last year. We love experimentation with different forms for reccing, whether that means incorporating audio, video, action figures, limericks, rec-ipes, or anything else your heart desires!
Here is a convenient banner and code to use if you want to promote the fest!
Please spread the word! The more the merrier!
SIGNUP
Time Schedule
We're posting the sign-up post today, on Wednesday, July 3. The festival itself lasts for two weeks: Wednesday, July 17 to Wednesday, July 31.
Each day, one or more people will post podfic recs to the
amplificathon/amplificathon communities. Participation is simple: you post on the date you claimed during sign up. You can choose as many or as few days as you like, but we do ask that if you claim a day that you post on that day. New this year: Halfway through posting, on Wednesday, July 24th, we will have Cover Art Day, where we celebrate some of the amazing cover art that has been created for podfics. If you have cover art you'd like to rec, please sign up to post on that day, and we will also have put up several mod posts that center around the topic of cover art :)
Description
Your rec post can be anything you want to share: one story, stories from one fandom, random stories you like, or a thematic rec list. We strongly encourage you to include new podfic and new readers—hopefully at least a few on each list that were released in the time since the last round of amplirecathon.
Descriptions of the podfic can be as simple or detailed as you want them to be. You can simply list the basic info (fandom, reader, name, author, length, and link) or you can go into depth about why you are recommending this particular podfic. Readers (and potential listeners) tend to love hearing what makes a podfic special to you: the details of the story and its presentation, your response to the recording, or the reasons the reading resonates with you personally. If you want ideas for how to put your feelings about podfics into words, you can check out this post. One last thing: qualified recs are fine, but if you are recommending it, please focus on what's good about it as well. :)
Prompts
If you want to see what kinds of rec posts fans have made in previous years, check out Amplirecathon 2010, Amplirecathon 2011, and Amplirecathon 2012. You can use these as models or come up with completely different and new themes and formats. You may especially want to look at some of the ways reccers experimented with audio recs last year. We love experimentation with different forms for reccing, whether that means incorporating audio, video, action figures, limericks, rec-ipes, or anything else your heart desires!
Here is a convenient banner and code to use if you want to promote the fest!
Please spread the word! The more the merrier!
