Brainstorming Post

[paraka]

In order for Podfic Bingo to be a success, we need a variety of prompts to put in the squares.

I've come up with two different categories of prompts (although, if you can think of another, feel free to suggest it): Reading prompts and Extras Production prompts. ETA: I've added a Fic Choice category.

Reading prompts affect how the podficcer reads their story. It can be emphasizing an emotion or adding a style to the reading.

Extas Production prompts are prompts that affect the editing stage or how you produce the podfic but don't directly affect how you read the story..

Examples of Reading prompts
-Read Angrily
-Read Sadly
-Read with a Smile
-Try an Accent
-Character Voices
-Read Animatedly
-Read Deadpan
-More Articulation (for you)
-Slur/Mumble
-Read Quickly (for you)
-Read Slowly (for you)
-Collaborate
-Read Sexy
-Record with your Body
-Record Standing Up
-Read While Laughing
-Read Quietly
-Read Loudly
-Record While Lying Down
-Read Drunkenly
-Read with Silence
-Sing
-Read Sleepily
-Read without Cues

Examples of Production prompts
-No Editing
-Incorporate Music
-Incorporate Sound Effects
-Collaborate
-Incorporate Verbal Effects
-Incorporate Physical Sound
-Record in a New Location
-Higher Pitch Effect
-Lower Pitch Effect
-Echo Effect
-Use a Speed Effect
-Splice Fics Together

Fic Choice
-2+ Hours Long
-<10 Minutes Long
-Unfamiliar Fandom
-Unfamiliar Genre
-Random Fic
-Crack
-Harlequin
-Action/Adventure
-Angst
-Read a Fic Cold
-Gen
-Slash
-Het
-Femslash
-Different Medium
-A Friends Fic
-Rare Pairing
-Yuletide
-Abrdige
-Mixed Media
-1st POV
-2nd POV
-Kinky
-Out of Order
-Minor Character
-Character of Colour
-Trans Character
-Disability
-Female Character
-Child Character
-Repod a Podfic
-Crossover/Fusion
-Non-English Language
-Fairy Tale
-Gossip
-Poetry

Comments

[aphelant]

I think this is a really cool idea! I'm going to think of suggestions, but one thing I want to suggest is changing "Read with an accent" to "Read with an accent not your own" (I realize that most people will read it as such, but it is a touchy subject for a lot of people and I think specificity might be helpful).

[paraka]

Actually accent was the example I used in the FAQs of how prompts can be interpreted, stating that using your own accent wouldn't count (but non-fandom related accents are acceptable too. I think the example I used was reading an SPN fic with a French accent if you weren't French).

I don't want prompts to get too wordy (since these do have to fit in a bingo card square. I just went and shorted all the prompts down to get rid of the "read with"s and similar.

[aphelant]

Okay, but as this is the brainstorming page and not the actual bingo card (so length of phrase is irrelevant), and as you aren't adding a note next to the prompt saying "more details about this prompt here at the FAQ", I don't think it's reasonable to expect people who come to this post and have not read/seen any other posts but this one to assume that you mean "accent not your own" when you are just saying "accent".

(I do see now that you've changed it to 'try an accent', which works much better, thank you.)

[paraka]

I did change it to "try an accent" yes. The length of the prompts here is relevant because what's listed here is what's going on the bingo cards. That's why I shortened all of them - I was just adding them ad hoc while at work today but always planned on shortening them when I got home.

I specifically don't want there to be a "page of definitions" for the prompts, since I want people to be able to interpret prompts in interesting and different ways.

I do, however, expect people to read the rules so having the accent prompt clarified there should be better than having a note here explaining how the prompt was intended.

I do recognize that I invited non-participants to join in the brainstorming but the amendment should now help clarify the prompt.

[brimtoast]

This is a good point.

I know it's been resolved already, but another way to fix the space issue would be to just change it to "Accent not your own," which would be short enough, get the point across, and have less chance of accidentally implying the "some people have no accent" ridiculousness. Which I know nobody here believes, but enough people say it when talking about podfic that it definitely is something podfic fandom is extra sensitive to, I think.

[paraka]

Do you have any suggestions on how I can word the language prompt? Originally I had it as "Try a new language" but that's not really what I want to say. I want people to try podficcing in a language they don't normally podfic in. So, if someone's first language is, say, Korean but they normally podfic in English, they can do a podfic in Korean, they don't need to attempt some unknown language.

The only way I could really think to word that is "[try a]Non-English Language" but... I think that's safe. Most of the people in podfic fandom (as it applies to this comm) will probably be reading English podfics, I doubt anyone is going to do their entire Bingo card in Polish or anything.

I don't know, it just seems awkwardly worded (especially since I'm trying to keep prompts to 2-3 words)

[brimtoast]

I do not think non-English language is problematic in the context of this comm, which is written in English and posted at podfic communities where, AFAIK, nobody podfics primarily in non-English languages. There may be something I'm missing, but if there is a problem with it I don't see it.

I mean, there are plenty of other things on here that at least some people have done before, so it's not like by adding that you are ignoring the fact that some people here have podficced in non-English languages before. And then for those people, they can either do another in the language they've already done, or they can push themselves further and try a language they've never used for podfic so far.

How about "incorporate non-English language(s)," to stress that the whole podfic doesn't need to be in that language?

[lunchee]

What about "Incorporate LOTE" (Language other than english) ?

[paraka]

The only problem with that, is I don't know how common "LOTE" as a phrase is. I've certainly never heard of it before. And when I Google LOTE, the first hit I get is "Living on the Edge." And while I would actually find it pretty amusing if someone incorporated Aerosmith instead, I love the actual prompt so much I don't want there to be confusion. :-/