First off – Give it up for Team Transcription everyone!

I’m going to seed in a few new volunteers for this week, but they’re really, aw…aww….awwwwwwesome. They’re everything that’s good about fandom. 

Anywho – to the question.

I can only speak for myself, because we’re not in the same room hardly ever and coordinate over Google Docs.

The doc itself that we use during our Skype session is made by me taking notes during the broadcast, which I watch with the subtitles on so I can get things right the first time (I do not have DVR, so it really is one time only).

As soon a the episode is over, I jump in the Doc and write an almost scene-by-scene breakdown of the episode for the summary, then update all the technical stuff like the title of the next episode and the date we’re recording.

Matt, Devindra and I call each other on Skype about 15-20 minutes after the episode ends and we pre-chat for 5 minutes and – NO JOKE – occasionally debate about how to pronounce things, since we’ll be amongst the first to do so and we don’t have the best track record of representing y’all.

We select and e-mail to read (if there’s one that’s going to lead into the greater episode discussion) and then we start recording the podcast. : )

After that, there’s very little pre-planning. Both on the /Filmcast and OpKino, we all have found a rhythm for these sorts of things and the episode gets out fastest when we don’t have to edit at all. 

Basically, the whole process is done between 11AM and 12:30PM on Saturdays and the rest is rendering and uploading the file to all the different services. : )

That might change the slightest bit as we progress through the season, but we’ll try to keep recording on Saturdays and as close to air as possible.

Then, for me, each weekday is about engaging with the community in the mornings before I go to my day job.

If it was any show besides Korra, I’d imagine I’d be tired of all this by now, but I’m loving it, even weird stuff like gender switching:

Thanks Team!

-Da7e-