Voiceteam 2024 Round 2

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Round 2 Challenges

CROSSOVER [35 points for each player who contributes, +5 for each additional fandom, with a max of 50 points]:
Create an audio fanwork that is a crossover. Bonus points if it crosses over more than 2 fandoms.

CHIP IN [30 points for each player who contributes, +20 if it requires significant time, effort, or energy on your part]:
Create or do something that gives back to the podfic community: compile a resource post, write a walkthrough, add something podfic-related to Fanlore, solicit blanket permission statements, find authors with blanket permission to add to the FPS database, help other podficcers back up their files, create useful scripts/spreadsheets/workskins, or something else!

DAYS OF YORE [20 points for each player who contributes, +20 if it requires significant time, effort, or energy on your part]:
Create a piece of visual art for an audio fanwork posted in Voiceteam 2024 Round 1. You must listen to the podfic at some point before submitting your art for points. The art can take many possible forms (drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, handcraft, digital art, a photograph of a scene you have created, a photograph of yourself in cosplay doing a pose that connects to the audio fanwork, etc etc, etc!) Each audio fanwork you create art for must be from a different Round 1 challenge.

SOPORIFIC [35 points for each player who contributes, +5 if someone confirms that it works]:
Make an audio fanwork that is designed to help people sleep. Bonus points if you can get at least one person to try it and confirm that it worked!

BAND TOGETHER [35 points for each player who contributes, +5 if self-recorded non-vocal sounds are included]:
Create a filk involving audio contributions from at least two players. Bonus for including self-recorded non-vocal sounds (like clapping, tapdancing, banging on things, playing your own instruments, etc).

HELLO STRANGER [10 points for creating or significantly revising your Dear Podficcer letter, 35 points for each player who contributes when you make an audio fanwork that fits your letter]:
Create a Dear Podficcer letter (if you don't know what that is, you can find a definition and examples at these links), or look at your Dear Podficcer letter if you already have one. Then make an audio fanwork that would be a perfect fit for yourself based on the letter.

WE ARE EVERYWHERE [10 points for each player who contributes, +1 per each additional unique location after the first 5, with a max of 50 points]:
Create avant-garde location-based audio art with your team! Each team member should think of one or more unique places they could plausibly record from. Choose a single sentence for team members to record in each place, with the only change being the name of the location. (For example, a team could choose the sentence "I am creating art [describe the location]" and examples could be "I am creating art in the bath," "I am creating art beneath four cats," etc.) Edit all the clips together. The minimum number of clips is 5—bonus for each clip after that.

You have our permission to get weird with this one.

COLD READ [35 points for each player who contributes, +5 if you have submitted one kind and are now submitting the second kind]:
Record a podfic as a "cold read." There are currently two equally valid definitions of this term—feel free to do either!

Definition 1: Record the story as you are reading it for the first time (with editing).
Definition 2: Record a story in an unedited or minimally-edited reading-aloud-to-a-friend style (which can optionally also include your reactions and commentary on the story, pauses to sip tea or comment on things happening in the room around you, etc).

For the sake of listener accessibility, make sure you clarify to listeners which type of "cold read" you're choosing for each recording, perhaps by explaining in the notes, or perhaps by adding a tag such as "unedited" or "first-time read" to each one that differentiates which style you've used.

Bonus if you have already submitted a podfic that fit one definition and then submit a second podfic that fits the other definition!

SEA WITCH [35 points for each player who contributes]:
Create an audio fanwork that includes no spoken words. It must include some element of character and/or plot.

TRANSLATION [40 points for each player who contributes]:
Translate a story into another language, dialect, or interpretation. The resulting work does not need to be an audio fanwork in the typical sense, but there must be at least some kind of audio element. Cat meows, interpretive dance, etc are ON limits.