Open question...

[gallamor]

I've been thinking for a couple years as to whether or not I have the technical chops (not to mention TIME) to put together a series of podcasts highlighting the Pegasus finalists.

So, we have a handy-dandy poll. :)

[Poll #1440983]

What do you think?

EDIT: Yeah, I know I'm rather binary here- there is no Maybe. In this poll, however, I'm really interested only in the absolutes at this time. Shaded areas of grey come when there's actually data for a podcast... :)

Comments

[bardling.livejournal.com]

How would a podcast help you, unless it was essentially a recording of bits of performances by all nominees? I doubt it's within tarkrai's ability (time/money...) to witness and record such for all nominees. Ok, perhaps such a thing could be delegated and recordings collected to form a podcast - but that puts a lot of workload on both the recording folks and tarkrai for coordinating everything and editing the lot together. Can you see other content that would be useful? What are you thinking of, when you say "highlighting"?

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. You're right, I wasn't imagining him actually doing any of the recording, just assembling recordings of performers submitted to him into a downloadable format. And I don't necessarily mean studio recordings. Recordings of con performances might be better. I know there are often permissions issues with these that I am not enough of an insider to fully understand, but it seems that quite a few cons have recording soundboards.

That does mean there's administrative overhead in tracking down and assembling recordings, and there might not be something to podcast for everyone.

When I mean "highlighting," I mean a selection of recordings (not necessarily lots) by the artist or songwriter so that I have something to use as a basis for voting.

[bardling.livejournal.com]

Well, if we're after judging the performance, it'd pretty much have to be live performance recordings, not studio recordings anyway. ;)

Hm, it occurs to me that as someone inexperienced in these things I should probably ask: are we talking video or audion only, for podcasts? I'm imagining something short & youTube-ish, but I have a feeling I might be barking up the wrong tree...

[echoweaver.livejournal.com]

Er, I think that's a video podcast. I think of the generic term "podcast" as referring to audio-only.

I pipe my MP3 player through my car audio system and listen to music podcast in place of radio these days, so I have often lamented the lack of a regular filk podcast. I even thought about doing one myself except, um, I don't have the time....

[tarkrai.livejournal.com]

Just replying to the whole thread. :)

The format thought is much of what was done at ConClave (a con in Michigan generally 2 weeks before OVFF).

Format was as follows:
1. Introduce the composer. Mostly where they're from, without a lot of other information about them.

2. Play the nominated song in full.

3. lather, rinse, repeat for the whole category.

So, there would be six podcasts; focusing on each category of the award. :)

Currently you have to submit a full recording to be able to accept Nomination. OVFF helps with their catalog of recordings from the con where necessary, as well as doing everything possible to get a recording for the online balloting process. So, gathering copies of the songs is generally not a problem.

So, differences from the standard format- Performer and Composer Nominees:

I'm considering asking Composer and nominees to submit a live recording to me of a song they're proudest of, not necessarily the one that is used as a representative work. (Within the Official Online Category right now, if you are a Performer Nominee and you have a song in Best, Classic, or one of the Floats- that's your representative piece. If you're a Composer Nominee, the same applies.)

With the podcast, I'd be able to expand the Performer and Composer categories- preferably with only live recordings.

The other reason to do this thing is that the online official representative is a *sample* of the piece- not the complete song.

These would all be audio podcasts- no video. :)

There... all answered?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

This sounds almost exactly like the process I imagined you'd be using, so have an extra thumbs-up from here.