Day 1 Round Up - How We Podfic

[regonym]

Here is a list of all the posts for Day 1 of Pod Aware 2012: How We Podfic!

Art
How We Podfic by crazybutsound

Encouragement
POD AWARE 2012 by bessyboo
Looking for Glee Authors with Blanket Permission by klb
Pod_Aware Day 1 (1 Day Late): How We Podfic by fire_juggler 

Meta
Pod Aware - Day 1, How We Podfic by adistantsun
How We Podfic by rhea314
Pod-aware day 1: How we podfic by sophinisba
Pod Aware Day 1! How We Podfic by paraka 
Day 1: How we podfic by starduchess
five questions about podfic by toft 

Podcasts
Day 1 - How We Podfic bybessyboo, dr_fumbles_mcstupid  and k_town 
Day 1 - How We Podfic byanatsuno, jenepod and opalsong
Pod Aware 2012 Day 1: "How We Podfic" by helens78
Pod Aware 2012 Day 1: How We Podfic by regonym
how I podfic - recording & consumption by neverbalance
Pod Aware Day 1: How we podfic by aethel
Pod Aware Day 1 by argentumlupine 
Pod Aware Day 1: How We Podfic by lunchee and revolutionaryjo (Resonance podcast; also available on tumblr)
Pod Aware Day One: How We Podfic by reena_jenkins
Pod-aware: Nov 12 Creation & Consumption by tenoko1 

Video
Podfic Recording "Studio" by revolutionaryjo 

If there are any additional links that need to be added to the list, or mistakes that need correction, please leave a comment!

Comments

[tenoko1]

Here's mine! http://tenoko1.dreamwidth.org/817.html

Can't wait to go listen to the others.

[regonym]

Added! :D

[paraka]

revolutionaryjo had a late submission too.

[regonym]

Whoops! Thanks, is now added!

[paraka]

NP, like I said, she posted late and she left the link to one of my posts, so I figured you wouldn't see it. :)

[paraka]

And here's another late submission. :)

How to get started?

[a_hobbit]

I've been listening to podfics, mostly Sherlock, for a few months now and I'm starting to think I would like to try doing some myself, though listening to my own voice makes me think my first step needs to be taking voice lessons :-).

So my question is how do I find support, answers to my questions, discussions about equipment, help on using the software, etc? Is there an email list(s) or forum(s) where podficcers hang out?

And while we are at it, is there anyone who lives in the Athens - Atlanta, Georgia area?

I've been away from fandoms in general for a few years and now that I'm back I'm finding it really hard to figure out how fans are connecting these days. It used to be mostly on email lists but that doesn't seem to be the case now. I've looked at forums on Dreamwidth and Livejournal and they don't seem to be the kind of freewheeling discussions I was used to. As for Tumblr, I can't figure out how discussions even happen there!

I'm sorry if this isn't the place to get into this.

Re: How to get started?

[regonym]

Hi! I'm happy you're thinking of trying podficcing - it's tons of fun and there's a very supportive community out there for it that's been growing a lot over the past few years. You asked a bunch of great questions in your comment, and I'll try to go through them in order:

Regarding help with getting started and technical support, I found it really helpful to check out fan-made tutorials like this one when I was first learning how to make my own podfics. There's an index of a bunch of other tutorials here, as well. Another resource that's very useful is the Podfic Tips community on LJ, which is a great place to go ask questions and look for help/betas/etc.

I'm afraid I don't know anyone who lives in the Atlanta area personally, sorry. :(

But I can tell you a little bit about where people hang out these days! There's definitely been a big shift away from LJ & DW, but some communities are still quite active. Amplificathon is probably the biggest general comm for posting podfic, both on DW and LJ. Larger fandoms (especially ones with an active podficcing community like Sherlock) may have fandom-specific podfic comms as well. It's also become more common for podficcers to have their works posted on AO3 (here's my page, to give an example). The Podfic Meta comm is where a lot of broader discussion happens, and has some great insightful posts. For general, casual person-to-person interaction, though, I'd have to say a lot of it happens these days on Twitter! There's a podfic twitter here, run by Paraka, which can give you a general idea about that.

The 'Podfic Fandom' posts from Day 2 of the Pod Aware fest this year would be a great resource to check out for other opinions on where fandom has migrated, since I'm only providing one person's perspective. ^^ Best of luck, if you have any other questions I'd be happy to try to answer them!