Voiceteam 2022 Round 2

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Round 2 Challenges

STORYTIME [35 points for each player who contributes]:
Create an illustrated children's book connected to podficcing. It can be connected in whatever way you want and does not have to be especially long or especially serious!

STAGE A SCENE [40 points for each player who contributes]:
Create a podfic with someone taking on the role of director! Example process: One or more performers start with a first readthrough of a fic. The director listens and gives them direction. Then the performer(s) perform the story again, making adjustments to their performance based on the direction! This could happen live in a voice chat or could happen by recording the first readthrough, getting written or oral recorded feedback from the director, and then recording the final performance. If a group has another idea for how to create a podfic with a director role, those are welcome too.

SONG LYRICS CONNECT [30 points for each team member who contributes, +10 for any podfic that's part of a whole verse or chorus]:
Each team may choose one song. For this challenge, record podfics of stories whose titles are lyrics from that song. (See this video for examples of fics whose titles are all lyrics from a single song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4k-ZMtMsyc) Bonus if you can string together a whole verse or whole chorus of the song with the titles of your podfics!

WEIGHTED BLANKET [30 points for each player who contributes]:
Find an author that has a blanket permission statement, but there were no podfics of their works posted on AO3 at the time this challenge began. Podfic one of their works!

WALKTHROUGH [35 points for each player who contributes]:
Create some kind of documentation of your podfic process. This might include photos, screenshots, text, video, a podcast interview, etc. You might include your recording setup and equipment, what steps you go through and why, and any tips or advice you have learned. You might also talk about how your process has changed over time and why!

ENEMIES TO ??? [30 points for each qualifying player who contributes]:
Collaborate on an enemies-to-friends or enemies-to-lovers audio fanwork with one or more players on your rival team.

BIRD BY BIRD [25 points for each qualifying player who contributes]:
Start, advance significantly on, or finish a WIP. (This challenge defines WIP as anything you can’t finish in one session, with the understanding that what a session looks like is different for everyone!) Since this challenge is about making progress on a WIP, the length bonus will only apply to progress made during this round and should not include anything that had been completed before the round began. Players only qualify for points for this challenge if their contribution to the project is a WIP for them.

PODFIC BROKEN TELEPHONE [30 points for each team member who contributes]:
Play a game of Podfic Broken Telephone with at least 3 team members. Here is how to play: everyone on the team who wants to play should choose an order for the telephone chain. The first person in the chain can choose any fic to podfic. They will send a link to the text of the fic privately to the next person in the chain. The next person will choose a fic that connects in some way to the one they were sent, and send their choice along to the next person in the chain. All fics in the chain should be chosen within the first 48 hours of the round, and then players will have the rest of the round to record the story they have chosen. The whole chain should be revealed together, once all of the links have been completed!

FRIEND! [10 points]:
Listen to and leave a comment on an audio fanwork you haven’t listened to before that was made by one of your team members. (Check first if someone on your team has put their name in #optout-comment-for-points and if so make sure to not submit for points any comments you make to them!)

WAVELENGTH [45 points for each player who contributes]:
Create an audio fanwork that feels very *you*: maybe it centers on a favorite trope, character, fandom, performance style, etc. Share it with your team and explain why you chose it.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I love the challenge name "Weighted Blanket", it is such a perfect play on words

(if I don't ask this now I will forget, but it's probably better answered on Discord:) how will Bird for Bird work if my WIP is one that I recorded everything already, I just haven't edited it yet? (I meant to finish it for Vanilla Pods and did not, and I've had it all recorded since March. 2021…) because it sounds like the length bonus is only applicable if the WIP gains at least ten minutes in recording or editing?