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tsukinofaeriiWTF how did I get so busy? 
At the start of the week, I had one long-term commitment in the Cap/Iron Man bang. Now I have three. :| Fail at keeping the summer uncluttered, self.
What would the world think of a Podfic-ish Big Bang? The whole idea is to merge the art and the story/audio into one file, along with subtitles for PWD and people who just need something to keep their eyes busy. It's kind of entirely an experiment. Apparently there's been some wank about a podfic fest where the trasncript wasn't released with the podfic. It'll be available in a month, but PWD with hearing trouble and people who just don't like audio stories are out of luck.
Of course, the problem is that if you simultaneously release them, a lot of people (outside SPN fandom, which apparently is weird) will just ignore the podfic and head straight for the text. So to make it work, you have to make the podfic experience more interesting, and also resolve the various problems people have with podfic. (Can you add subtitles to EBooks? Must look into that...)
Anyways, first step is learning WTF this is going to entail. Second step is doing it, and third is guilting people into helping me run a beta. :D Guiltguilt. If this works, no doubt I will be posting more on it. If anyone can think of suggestions though, I'm open to them.
In other (more important) news... I need a non-valtyr beta. D: See, a long long time ago (back in August) in a galaxy (not so) far away, I put myself up on the auction block to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
help_pakistan. 5,000 words, starting bid $25. Let's just say that she is evil and selfishly bid $100 to charity, effectively buying me outright. And then, unlike almost every other person on the internet would do, encouraged me to write everything but her fic. Almost immediately after winning me, the Blame Valtyr Culture produced Speaking in Code, kink meme fills (which I should post unanon one day...), NaNoWroMo... Yeah, she's the original Life Ruiner. (Or perhaps Life Maker, IDK.)
Anyway, I have the last laugh. Her fic is finally done, but it needs a beta. A beta which isn't her. It's Ults, but it only takes a quick glance at the current Ult Canon before zooming off on its own. Knowing Steve & Tony's characterizations is about all you'd need. It's ~9k long, and fairly lighthearted. (I like fluffy Ults, hush.)
Takers?
At the start of the week, I had one long-term commitment in the Cap/Iron Man bang. Now I have three. :| Fail at keeping the summer uncluttered, self.What would the world think of a Podfic-ish Big Bang? The whole idea is to merge the art and the story/audio into one file, along with subtitles for PWD and people who just need something to keep their eyes busy. It's kind of entirely an experiment. Apparently there's been some wank about a podfic fest where the trasncript wasn't released with the podfic. It'll be available in a month, but PWD with hearing trouble and people who just don't like audio stories are out of luck.
Of course, the problem is that if you simultaneously release them, a lot of people (outside SPN fandom, which apparently is weird) will just ignore the podfic and head straight for the text. So to make it work, you have to make the podfic experience more interesting, and also resolve the various problems people have with podfic. (Can you add subtitles to EBooks? Must look into that...)
Anyways, first step is learning WTF this is going to entail. Second step is doing it, and third is guilting people into helping me run a beta. :D Guiltguilt. If this works, no doubt I will be posting more on it. If anyone can think of suggestions though, I'm open to them.
In other (more important) news... I need a non-
valtyr beta. D: See, a long long time ago (back in August) in a galaxy (not so) far away, I put myself up on the auction block to help_pakistan. 5,000 words, starting bid $25. Let's just say that she is evil and selfishly bid $100 to charity, effectively buying me outright. And then, unlike almost every other person on the internet would do, encouraged me to write everything but her fic. Almost immediately after winning me, the Blame Valtyr Culture produced Speaking in Code, kink meme fills (which I should post unanon one day...), NaNoWroMo... Yeah, she's the original Life Ruiner. (Or perhaps Life Maker, IDK.)Anyway, I have the last laugh. Her fic is finally done, but it needs a beta. A beta which isn't her. It's Ults, but it only takes a quick glance at the current Ult Canon before zooming off on its own. Knowing Steve & Tony's characterizations is about all you'd need. It's ~9k long, and fairly lighthearted. (I like fluffy Ults, hush.)
Takers?
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Date: 2011-05-13 07:19 pm (UTC)I tend to see pod fic as for people who like pod fic, and not as a thing on it's own. Like I don't worry about people reading the story, because I'm not making pod fic for them. I'm making it for people who want to listen to it read by me. So release everything at the same time for maximum accessibility, says I.
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Date: 2011-05-14 04:39 am (UTC)IDK if you've been following the Meme Which Shall Not Be Named, but lately there were some threads about a podfic thing where they weren't being released simultaneously. Obviously this has accessibility issues, but the point was to encourage people to download the podfic rather than just go to the textfic (which I can understand, since I'm one of those text-before-audio people). Clearly, this is bass ackward because it just makes people angry.
Anywho, this is sort of me trying to figure out if there's a way to do a podfic thing that promotes podficcing as an art of its own, sans accessibility problems and sending people flying off into a rage. (hands) And short of doing something like a group project with voice actors, it seems to be the answer is probably "no". :\ Because you can subtitle, and throw in some art... and I would probably still make grabby hands after the text.
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh~
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Date: 2011-05-14 05:28 am (UTC)I saw that it was a thing that was being wanked about. I honestly only fallow yon meme for the pan fandom discussion and to watch for comics fandom wank (or hate threads for ME, as I'm collecting them). So I didn't read the threads, or any other wanky threads.
I'm kind of baffled. I had thought that podfic was to increase accessability for text fic, or as a nice bonus to listen to while driving or whatever, not as a competition to text fic. However, I clearly do not have enough dedication to pod fic as an art.
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Date: 2011-05-15 04:06 am (UTC)That's kind of what I thought initially, but I think it can be done as its own thing. It's just going to take being more than just a podfic, or else what's the point?
It just seemed like an interesting experiment. Worst comes to worst, it's forcing me to expand my technical skills. :D
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Date: 2011-05-13 11:48 pm (UTC)or I would totally try this stuff out.If you still need a beta, I'm open. I mean, I have three bangs for this summer (which are ALL DUE AT THE SAME TIME, OMG), but otherwise, totally not occupied. XD
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Date: 2011-05-14 04:47 am (UTC)(clings) I DO! Usually I would beg Jazzy or Valtyr, but it's Valtyr's fic, and Jazzy is a busybee. I wouldn't want to bug her. :( I don't need a hard beta, really. Just a second pair of eyes to tell me Ult Steve is totally off the rails. :D
I have it up on GDocs if you want me to ship it out?
Hey, just catching up!
Date: 2011-05-14 08:27 am (UTC)Re: Hey, just catching up!
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Date: 2011-05-15 04:47 am (UTC)ETA: If, in fact, that's even what you're referring to. I just realised I'm a bit loopy from lack of sleep and may not be firing on all thrusters, so to speak. Erm, yeah. I think it's time to stop playing Words With Friends and actually go to bed....
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Date: 2011-05-17 04:47 pm (UTC)Which is good, actually, since I recently had Troll appear again. (sighs)
To be fair
Date: 2011-05-14 08:31 am (UTC)But I do like the idea though. I honestly do.
Re: To be fair
Date: 2011-05-15 04:09 am (UTC)If it works out, I'm sure you will hear about it. :D As I will be shopping around for people to try it out on.