Behind The Pod

That’s a wrap on Behind the Pod Series 4! Thank you to all of our creators, and to everyone who's commented on episodes so far!

You can find all the Episodes of Series 4 on the Series 4 AO3 collection, and also here on this comm's Podcast: Series 4 tag.

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If you have any questions about Series 4, or anything else, please let us know by commenting here or using one of the contact methods listed in our contact info post!

Series 4, Party Favour: Long Pod

hullomoon invites Amanita_Fierce, N0Connections, RattleandHum, and HowOldAreWe to discuss the joys and tribulations of long pods both as creators and listeners.

Duration - 01:10:41

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Series 4, Episode 3: The Art of Radio Plays

Eafay, ItsADrizzit and WhiteHaru37 discuss the art of radio plays, both in general and specifically the two they wrote and participated in.

Duration - 01:27:17

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Series 4, Episode 1: Podficcing While Deaf

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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

The Series 4 Party Favour submission date has been changed to Sunday 5th June.

This is one week earlier than originally scheduled.

Party Favours will still be published after all Episodes. All info posts have been updated to show this.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have questions or concerns, feel free to reply to this post or get in touch by a different method.

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

Some FAQs, but also 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!)

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Important links: intro & rules post - sign-up & submission post - content moderation post - party favour rules - contact post

Liked the idea of Behind the Pod but didn’t feel up to the full timeline? Have an idea but didn’t get around to making it happen? Missed an episode check-in or deadline? Want a low-commitment option? Party Favours might be for you!

There's no need to sign up - Party Favours will have no check-ins, and no mod interaction until submission unless you want it. We’ll give you everything you need to make a Party Favour right here, a submission deadline, and then it’s all yours! The Resources & Templates folder (where you can find Audacity screenshots, metadata, cover images, intro & outro WAV files, and everything else) is here:
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Submission of Party Favours closes on 5th June.
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