Saturday = Points Post!

[dodificus]

We're entering into the home stretch guys! I hope you've been creating good feedbacking habits that will continue on after the challenge ends but in the meantime: Give you me all your points for the week!

How did you like this weeks Mini-Challenge, any surprises or difficulties looking for cover artists?

Comments

[dodificus]

Reccing is *hard*, trust me, I know. You deserve ALL the points.

[busaikko]

(I'm kind of cheating because usually I'll listen to a lot more longer podfics, spending several days with one story, but it's been great fun finding a new reader and exploring their various fandoms, then bumping into someone else new and getting all *their* stuff, and finding myself thinking, "Well, I saw that film/a commercial for that film, probably I'll follow along!" as I venture further and further afield.) It's definitely making me think meta-thoughts, though, like what kinds of stories make good podfics, and what makes a podfic unlistenable (graphic horror for me, the images *linger* so much more than printed words do), and things people do that seem like they'd not work but somehow are awesome.... And whether podfic readers have stories that they'd love to hear read, but can't do themselves (the same way fic writers sometimes can't write the fic they're hankering for).... /trapped in the house with a bunch of kids

[dodificus]

This would actually make a very interesting meta post.

I've definitely been lead into strange and wonderful fandoms by readers that I love, candlebeck and pennyplainknits for the most part. Having a good reader in your ear is like a gateway drug into all kinds of things you swore you'd never get into:D

I think that something that makes unlistenable for me is similar to what you said: intense, negative emotions over a long period. It's too much for me, I take it in too much and it's so hard to disconnect from it. Whereas I could probably podfic the exact same thing myself without any problems. Which is weird.

[cantarina]

I'd love to read that post! Also, agreed about graphic horror. I find that things like torture scenes also hit me so much harder. There's a scene from... I think it's FayJay's recording of "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" that would never have been as horrific on the page. Juice has also done one that made me put done my MP3 player and go do other things for a while, because I couldn't shake the terror and horror of it.

And whether podfic readers have stories that they'd love to hear read, but can't do themselves
I don't think that it stops people as much in podfic fandom, but I find that some readers are better suited to some genres than others. I'm trying to suggest that stories outside of those genres are badly read, but that a reader might have a more intuitive knack for drama than crack, or vice versa, and that that gives those stories are extra sparkle (or some other glittery metaphor!)

[busaikko]

Pod-meta! *ponders* There have only been a few podfics that have really horrified me, but at least one of them I'd read before and it didn't bother me at all -- but hearing the action in my head, I couldn't delete it off my iPod fast enough (with all apologies to the reader, it was a very good reading, just nightmare fuel).

There are stories that I'd like podfic of but that I wouldn't read myself, and not just because I'm lazy... more like I'm not that fond of the sound of my own voice and having to listen to a fic in my voice would make it harder to engage with the story? But I do think that some readers do have genres that they are really good fits in -- and that sometimes they make use of this reader expectation and record things outside their genre that just blow me away: "But she always reads fluffy romance so sweetly, and now I'm crying because I wasn't braced for ~that to happen!" (I usually enjoy having my heart broken, so I7d mean this in a "Well played, podficcer!" way)

[dodificus]

But I do think that some readers do have genres that they are really good fits in -- and that sometimes they make use of this reader expectation and record things outside their genre that just blow me away

Yesssss. How much do I love this? It's happened a couple of times to me and it's been freaking amazing every time.