Behind The Pod

It’s check-in time!

If you are signed up to make an Episode, you’ll have received an email from us. Please respond before Saturday 18th March if you are still participating in BtP. Groups who don’t reply will be moved to the Party Favour schedule (see the Party Favour rules for more details).

Now, on to the discussion! You can check in less formally here with us mods about any concerns you might have, talk ideas or issues through with other BtP participants, or share your excitement!

Here are a few questions for you to consider. No problem if you don’t have answers, or if they don’t apply to you! These discussion posts are also a prompt for you to think about things you may not have got around to:

• Have you settled on a topic for your Episode? Has the theme changed or developed?
• Have you recorded? How did you record, or how are you planning to?
• If you have recorded, how much of your episode was improvised and how much was from prepared material? Are the results different to what you expected?
• If you have recorded, who is editing? How is the editing going?
• If you have edited, how is your finished different from your initial concept or idea?
• If you’re part of a group, how have you been distributing the work between your group members?
• What difficulties/hurdles are you foreseeing? What difficulties/hurdles have you met or managed so far?
• Is there anything we can do to help, or anything you'd like us to know?

In the comments you can let us know how you're getting on, ask us questions, squee about your ideas, get cheerleading support from other participants, or anything else!

Important links: intro & rules - FAQ & questions - content moderation - sign-up & submissions - party favour rules - contact

It’s check-in time! If you are signed up to make an Episode, you’ll have received an email from us. Please respond before Saturday 2nd April if you are still participating in BtP. Groups who don’t reply will be moved to the Party Favour schedule (see the Party Favour rules for more details).

Now, on to the discussion! You can check in less formally here with us mods about any concerns you might have, talk ideas or issues through with other BtP participants, or share your excitement!

Here are a few questions for you to consider. No problem if you don’t have answers, or if they don’t apply to you! These discussion posts are also a prompt for you to think about things you may not have got around to:

• Have you settled on a topic for your Episode? Has the theme changed or developed?
• Have you recorded? How did you record, or how are you planning to?
• If you have recorded, how much of your episode was improvised and how much was from prepared material? Are the results different to what you expected?
• If you have recorded, who is editing? How is the editing going?
• If you have edited, how is your finished different from your initial concept or idea?
• If you’re part of a group, how have you been distributing the work between your group members?
• What difficulties/hurdles are you foreseeing? What difficulties/hurdles have you met or managed so far?
• Is there anything we can do to help, or anything you'd like us to know?

In the comments you can let us know how you're getting on, ask us questions, squee about your ideas, get cheerleading support from other participants, or anything else!

Important links: intro & rules - FAQ & questions - content moderation - sign-up & submissions - party favour rules - contact

It’s check-in time! If you are signed up to make an Episode, you’ll have received an email from us. Please respond before Saturday 27th March if you are still participating in BtP. Groups who don’t reply will be moved to the Party Favour schedule (see link to Party Favour rules at the end of this post for more details).

Now, on to the non-mandatory discussion! You can check in less formally here with us mods about concerns you might have, talk ideas or issues through with other BtP participants, or share your excitement!

Here are a few questions for you to consider. No problem if you don’t know the answers yet! These discussion posts are also a prompt for you to think about things you may not have already got around to:

• Have you settled on a topic for your Episode? Has the theme changed or developed?
• Have you recorded? How did you record? Are the results different to what you expected?
• Which side of the improvisation versus reading-from-prepared-material spectrum are you the most comfortable on?
• If you’re part of a group, how are you planning on distributing the work between you?
• What difficulties/hurdles are you foreseeing?
• Is there anything we can do to help, or anything you'd like us to know?

In the comments you can let us know how you're getting on, ask us questions, squee about your ideas, get cheerleading support from other participants, or anything else!

Useful links: Intro & rules post, FAQ & questions post, Submission info post, Party Favour rules, contact info.

It’s check-in time! If you are signed up to make an Episode, you’ll have received an email from us. Please respond before the end of Saturday 27th June if you are still participating in BtP. Groups who don’t reply will be moved to the Party Favour schedule (see link to Party Favour rules at the end of this post for more details).

Now, on to the non-mandatory discussion! You can check in less formally here with us mods about concerns you might have, talk ideas or issues through with other BtP participants, or share your excitement!

Here are a few questions for you to consider. No problem if you don’t know the answers yet! These discussion posts are also a prompt for you to think about things you may not have already got around to:

• Have you recorded? How did you record? Are the results different to what you expected?
• If you have recorded, how much of your episode was improvised and how much was from prepared material?
• If you have recorded, who is editing? How is the editing going?
• If you have edited, how is your finished different from your initial concept or idea?
• If you’re part of a group, how have you been distributing the work between your group members?
• What difficulties/hurdles are you foreseeing? What difficulties/hurdles have you met or managed so far?
• Is there anything we can do to help, or anything you'd like us to know?

In the comments you can let us know how you're getting on, ask us questions, squee about your ideas, get cheerleading support from other participants, or anything else!

Useful links: Intro post - Rules/FAQ/questions post - Submission info post - Party Favour rules - contact info.

It’s check-in time! If you are signed up to make an Episode, you’ll have received an email from us. Please respond before Saturday 25th April if you are still participating in BtP. Groups who don’t reply will be moved to the Party Favour schedule (see link to Party Favour rules at the end of this post for more details).

Now, on to the non-mandatory discussion! You can check in less formally here with us mods about concerns you might have, talk ideas or issues through with other BtP participants, or share your excitement!

Here are a few questions for you to consider. No problem if you don’t know the answers yet! These discussion posts are also a prompt for you to think about things you may not have already got around to:

• Have you settled on a topic for your Episode? Has the theme changed or developed?
• Have you recorded? How did you record? Are the results different to what you expected?
• Which side of the improvisation versus reading-from-prepared-material spectrum are you the most comfortable on?
• If you’re part of a group, how are you planning on distributing the work between you?
• What difficulties/hurdles are you foreseeing?
• Is there anything we can do to help, or anything you'd like us to know?

In the comments you can let us know how you're getting on, ask us questions, squee about your ideas, get cheerleading support from other participants, or anything else!

Useful links: Intro post, Rules/FAQ/questions post, Submission info post, Party Favour rules, contact info.

Time for the final discussion post! Regardless of where you are in your project, consider checking in to let us and everyone else involved in BtP know how you’re doing! You might inspire or encourage another group :D

Some prompt questions for you to think about:

• Have you run into any technical or other brickspace obstacles? How have they affected the project?
• If you haven't recorded yet, how do you plan to do it? What topics do you plan on covering?
• If you have recorded, how did you record? How did what you had in mind for the interview translate into conversation?
• Have the topics and/or scope of the interview changed from your initial ideas?
• If you haven't edited yet, how do you plan on organizing editing?
• If you have edited, how is it going? Any changes from your original editing plans?
• Is there any feedback you’d like to give us at this point, or anything we can do to help you out?

Talk to us or other BtP participants in the replies!

Useful links: BeThePod, info post, questions post, contact info post, behindthepod@gmail.com.

We're back with your second discussion post, prompting you to consider a few things you may or may not already have thought about:

• Who is interviewing who, and what are your plans for who will edit?
• What does your group want to talk about? Any broad or specific ideas, projects you have in mind, etc?
• How are you planning on doing the interview? Do you have a practical plan for recording?
• Which difficulties/hurdles are you foreseeing?
• Is there anything we can do to help, or anything you'd like us to know?
• Is your project timeline progressing the way you expected it to, have you had any roadbumps so far?
• Anything else?

Talk to us or other Be the Pod participants in the comments :D

Useful links: BeThePod, behindthepod@gmail.com, info post, questions post, contact info.