Behind The Pod

That’s a wrap on Series 2 of Behind the Pod! Thank you to all of our creators, and to everyone who’s commented on the podcast so far!

You can find all eight Episodes of Series 2, plus the single Party Favour, on the Series 2 AO3 collection, and also here on this comm’s Podcast: Series 2 tag.

If you participated in Series 2 of BtP in any way, as a creator or as a listener, we'd be very grateful if you'd fill out this feedback google form.

Join or subscribe to this journal’s notifications for updates about the schedule for Series 3, and possible other Behind the Pod events!

If you have any questions about Series 2, or anything else, please let us know by commenting here or using one of the contact methods listed in our contact info post!

Series 2, Episode 7: Exchange Moderation: Now With More Challenges

Moderating an exchange that is podfic-friendly but not podfic-centric.

Duration - 00:14:30

Click here to see this post on AO3!

Series 2, Episode 5: Podficcers of Color Roundtable Discussion 2

In this episode, the panel introduces two new members, dance and Luna, and discusses how they feel being a person of color impacts their work as podficcers and how they experience podfic fandom. They also discuss how world events are impacting discussions of racism in society and in fandom, and examples of anti-racism work in podfic fandom. In addition, they address talkbacks from the previous roundtable and discuss some who's and how's of creating for characters of color in podfic fandom. Finally, they discuss recs for podfics about characters of color and/or by podficcers of color.

Duration - 01:16:59

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Series 2, Episode 3: Am I Speaking Your Language?

Podficcing in languages the podficcer doesn't speak.

Duration - 01:11:11

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Your Behind the Pod Series 2 release schedule is here - time to get excited about all the great podfic meta coming to your ears every weekend between now and the end of September!

• Sun 2 Aug - Episode 1: The Pleasures and Perils of Cold Reading Your Podfics
• Sun 9 Aug - Episode 2: English as a Foreign Language and Other Podficcer Problems
• Sun 16 Aug - Episode 3: Am I Speaking Your Language?
• Sun 23 Aug - Episode 4: Podficcing on the Periphery: What it's like to be the only podficcer in your fandom
• Sun 30 Aug - Episode 5: Podficcers of Color Roundtable Discussion 2
• Sun 6 Sep - Episode 6: Podficcer Meetups and In-Person Multivoice Recordings
• Sun 13 Sep - Episode 7: flowersforgraves
• Sun 20 Sep - Episode 8: Music and Effects in Podfic - Why we do what we do
• Sun 27 Sep - Party Favours are posted

All Episodes will be posted to both the BtP Archive of Our Own page and to this Dreamwidth journal, and you can subscribe in either place if you want to avoid missing Episode releases!

Don’t forget to submit your Party Favour draft before Sun 13th September, if you have plans to participate!

If you have any questions about the release schedule, or anything else, please let us know by commenting here or using one of the contact methods listed in our contact info post!

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

This is a friendly reminder that the Episode submission deadline is Sun, 19 July!

Please review the submission info post, and submit your Episode by completing this Google form. If we don’t get your submission by the end of the deadline date, then you have until Sun 13 September to submit it as a Party Favour instead.

If you have any questions, please let us know by commenting here or using one of the contact methods listed in the contact info post!

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

Welcome to discussion post 3!

Here, you can check in with us mods regarding 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 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?
• Which side of the improvisation versus reading-from-prepared-material spectrum are you the most comfortable on?
• If you have recorded, who is editing? How is the editing going?
• If you’re part of a group, how are you 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.

Welcome to the first discussion post of Series 2!

Here, you can check in with us mods regarding 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 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:

• Do you know what topic/s your episode is going to be about? Have you settled on any broad or specific ideas, a particular project you have in mind, etc?
• 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?
• Particularly if you're part of a group, do you know how you're going to record your episode?
• 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.

This post is for setting out the rules for Series 2 in more detail, but also for your questions! Please feel free to ask any questions you have about this challenge here, and we mods will do our best to answer! (If you think you have the answer to a question you see in the replies, then please do jump in and respond!)

Important links: Intro post - sign-up & submission post - party favour rules - contact post

1) What is the timeline of this project?

Sun 26 Jan: Sign-ups open
Sun 23 Feb: Sign-ups close

Sun 22 Mar: Discussion post 1

Sun 19 Apr - Sat 25 Apr: Mandatory check-in 1 (& discussion post 2)

Sun 24 May: Discussion post 3

Sun 21 Jun - Sat 27 Jun: Mandatory check-in 2 (& discussion post 3)

Sun 19 Jul: Episode submission deadline

Sun 02 Aug: Weekly episode posting begins

Sun 13 Sep: Party Favour submission deadline

(Party Favours will be posted the week after all episodes have been published.)

There are two mandatory check-ins, and there will be discussion posts on this dreamwidth every month, which will double as non-mandatory, informal check-ins. Both of the mandatory check-ins, and the discussion posts will come with reminder emails.

If you sign up as a group, everybody will get an email at the mandatory check-ins, but as long as at least one person responds, we will consider your group checked-in. The person who answered will be responsible for making sure the whole group is on track.

Party favours do not have any check-ins, just the one submission deadline. However, the discussion posts are for everyone!

Important links: Intro post - sign-up & submission post - party favour rules - contact post