spn_reversebang | Rules & FAQ 2011

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Rules & FAQ 2011

Overview:

This is a reverse of the usual Big Bang challenge. Each artist wishing to participate creates one piece of art that will be posted anonymously to be claimed by an author.

Authors are then expected to write a short fic (minimum of 3,000 words) based on the art they chose.

We expect authors and artists to leave their

spn_reversebang stories and artwork accessible and unlocked for at least nine months after posting. We also strongly encourage that if you plan to delete or lock your journal after that point you consider archiving your work at an additional site such as AO3 or imugr.

You must have a Livejournal account to participate in this challenge.

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Schedule:

Artist and Author sign-ups open Monday, August 1. Artists should submit a completed draft by Monday, September 19. (Early Bird Art will be due Friday, September 2. For more information, see below). This may feature any pairing (or no pairing) so long as it includes at least one Supernatural character or actor/actress who has appeared on the show. The art will be posted anonymously, at which point authors can claim a piece. Authors will write a short fic (minimum of 3,000 words) based on the art they chose.

Artist and author matches will be revealed on Tuesday, October 4, and the posting schedule will be revealed on Friday, October 21.

Posting of the final products will be on a staggered schedule, and will begin on Monday, November 7.

Important Dates:
Monday, August 1: Sign-Ups Open
Friday, August 26: Artist Sign-Ups Close

Friday, September 2: Early Bird Art Submissions Due/First Artist Check-in
Monday, September 19: Art Submissions Due

Thursday, September 29: Claims Open

Tuesday, October 4: The Big Reveal
Friday, October 21: Posting Schedule Announced

Tuesday, October 18: Second Artist Check-In/First Writer Check-in
Tuesday, November 1: Writer Rough Drafts Due

Monday, November 7: Posting Begins

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Rules for Artists:

You should create one new piece of art: a drawing, painting, digital manip, or fanvid. Art must be at least 400 by 600 pixels in size, videos must be at least 30 seconds in length. You must submit this piece by Monday, September 19, (or Friday, September 2 for Early Bird Art) and it should be a completed draft. (You may continue making changes after this date, but a writer should be able to work with the prompt as-is, if necessary).

Early Bird Exception: Artists who wish to submit two prompts must complete and submit one prompt by Friday, September 2. Otherwise, only one prompt will be allowed per artist.

You may not submit art for this challenge that has already been posted elsewhere.

This challenge is open to all pairings and genres, so long as it includes at least one character or actor from Supernatural. Artists may choose to specify what pairings (if any) they envision in the story, as well as submit a short text description of their piece (optional).

We have a post for Art Beta volunteers for artists to contact directly, but having your artwork looked over by a Beta is not required.

Please sign up to participate as an artist here.

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Rules for the Authors:

Authors must write a fic with a minimum of 3,000 words, based on the art you choose in the Art Claims post. Claims will be first come, first serve. Your fic must be related to the art for which it is written, and it cannot have been already posted elsewhere.

Rough drafts meeting the minimum required word count will be due Tuesday, November 1.

There will be required check-ins, draft deadlines, and a certain level of communication with your artist is expected. If you do not meet your deadlines or fail to communicate with your artist, you may receive one or more warnings, after which a pinch-hitter will be assigned.

The fics must be beta read, and we have a post for Fic Beta volunteers available for authors to contact directly. There is also a non-affiliated LJ community at spn_betas where you can seek a beta reader.

Please sign up to participate as an author here.

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Betas:

Volunteers to be Fic and Art Betas may sign up here.

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Art Submission Guidelines:

Art submissions should be sent to the community mod email account by Monday, September 19, (or Friday, September 2 for Early Bird Art) and it should be a completed draft. Artists may submit only two pieces of art for claiming in this challenge if they make the Early Bird deadline with one of them. Otherwise, only one piece of art will be allowed per artist. There is no maximum size or dimensions for art, though each art prompt must be at least 400 by 600 pixels in size. If it is a vid it must be at least 30 seconds in length. Art submissions should be completed drafts. This challenge is open to all pairings and genres, so long as it includes at least one character or actor from Supernatural. Artists may choose to specify what pairings (if any) they would prefer to accompany their story, as well as clarify whether the art is SPN or RPS. More details on the art submission process will be posted to the community, so please be sure to join and watch the community for updates.

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The Claims Process:

Art claims will officially begin on Thursday, September 29, though the post will be up a couple of days beforehand so that writers may take a look at all the art before actual claiming starts. The art posts will contain thumbnail previews of all the art (that link to the full size version of the art) accompanied by an optional text description of the subject. All art will be posted anonymously, and claims will be first come, first serve.

The Art Post(s) will be members-locked, so please be sure to join and watch the community in order to participate.

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What about crossovers?

We strongly discourage them, but they will be allowed so long as the focus of the prompt remains on the SPN characters or actors. Additionally, it will be the artist's responsibility to provide explanations of, or information about, characters from other fandoms included in the artwork to the author.

Everyone who wishes to participate should join and watch the community, to make sure they do not miss important deadlines or updates to the challenge.

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Contact:

If you have any questions, please comment here, send an email to spnreversemod@gmail.com or send a PM to

spnreversemod. The mods for this round are

inalasahl,

retrophysics,

jimmyssock and

tringic. We ask that you not contact them directly with questions.

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Last year, we could provide more than one piece of art for one prompt. Is it still possible this year?

Can you be more clear about what a draft constitutes and how much more work we're allowed to do before the posting date? I have a suspicion that what I think a draft is and what the mods think a draft is are not the same thing.

Okay, potentially silly question here (and one which may end up being moot, but still.)

What happens if there are more authors than art being offered for claim? Will you end up not being able to participate as a writer if that occurs?

I was fretting about this too. Personally, I'd LOVE to see more than one author tackle my offering! There's bound to be a writer/artist imbalance and though I hope to take advantage of the Early Bird Special, I suspect there will still be a wealth of authors. A glorious wealth!

Like last year we ask that people send in their submission in a single file - so if you want you can submit a piece with multiple panels, like a comic book page, as long as it's one page/file.

We realize this is a little complicated, but we expect artists to turn in a submission that looks like a finished piece of art. You are allowed to make changes to it after consulting with your author, but what you send to us as a draft must be a piece that can stand on it's own, and that an author could work from as-is. Does that clarify things?

Claims will be at a first come, first serve basis, so if there are more authors that prompts it can indeed be that some of them will miss out on a claim. All art prompts will be available for viewing a couple days before claims though, and the time claims open will be announced as well, so you have as much chance as anyone.

Er, no? I mean, last year I turned in some line art for my draft and colored it before the posting deadline but I was hoping to do a manip this time. There isn't really an "in between" stage for manips, at least not for me. But it seems like kind of a drag to have two whole months of dead time instead of being able work on it up until the due date.

I mean, I guess I'm just kind of whining, because you guys have your rules, and I respect that you get to chose how they play out. I'm just looking for ways to maximize the amount of time I can spend on my art between now and November, instead of really only getting a month and a half to work on it.

Like I replied to

wolfling, claiming will be on a first come, first serve basis. We do realize there are usually more authors than artists, but we have to try to keep things as fair as possible.

*thumbs up!*

I get what you're saying, but submissions have to be completed pieces of art because we don't want people to turn in something that is clearly in an in-between stage. This is partly for the benefit of the authors, to make sure that they have something solid to work with, but also to limit the amount of drop outs. And because you only turn in one piece as a submission, we encourage artists to use the time between claiming and their posting date to create more art.

People will not be allowed to sign up as both an artist and an author. However, we will allow artists to sign up as writing pinch-hitters (when the pinch-hitting sign-up opens after claims). If you'd like to do both, your best bet then is to sign up as an artist now and hope to get a pinch hit later.

I'll take you out of the artist list then. Good luck with the sassy_mini!
/different mod

Sorry to insist on that issue when you already gave your answer, but I was wondering the same thing (what will happen if there are more authors than art, which doesn't seem unlikely) and I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying here... Do you mean that if it happens, nothing will be done to correct that? Is the option of opening claims again for art that has already been claimed ruled out completely? I don't think that this is true to say that everyone has as much chance that everyone else - people live in different timezones and have different schedules, after all, so it can happen than someone who genuinely wants to participate can't be there when claims start and it seems a little unfair that because of that they could end up with nothing.

Maybe I totally misunderstood you or there are issues I didn't think about! I just need some clarification on that matter before I sign up.

Basically, Yes. Every art prompt will only be available to be claimed once, and we will not reopen claims for second pick ups no matter what. We decided on this for several reasons, one of which being that while some artists may love to work with multiple authors, others may not have the time for it. Another reason is that there are always a couple of prompts that are really popular, and what we saw last year was that a lot of authors decided to wait for those prompts to come available again instead of picking up one that had not yet been claimed - thus leaving other prompts out in the cold for a long time.

As for it not being equal opportunities... well, first off, I should hope that everyone who signs up genuinely wants to participate, and while we have not yet decided on the time claims will open, we will attempt to put as much thought into it as possible. Us mods are from entirely different timezones so we know the difficulties involved and have all had to stay up for claims in the middle of the night one time or another. Nothing is perfect, but we do try to be as fair as possible.

Okay, thank you for your answer.

OK thanks!

Sorry to butt in, but last year we had more art than authors, so there was never going to be a round when writers could claim a piece of art that was already claimed. Authors didn't wait to claim something that was already claimed, they just left pissed off that they didn't get it due to LJ notification glitches.

And artists could submit more than one prompt and more pieces of art for one prompt, yes, but mostly, I think they could submit up to three different prompts. Seeing how the list of author to artist is currently 2:1, could you maybe reconsider letting the artists submit multiple pieces if they feel up to it? And by that I mean multiple different prompts, not 4 pieces of art for the same story.

Artists can submit two prompts this year. They just have to get one done on an earlier deadline.

In the unlikely event that an author is unable to claim a prompt at all, we hope they will consider signing up to be a pinch-hitter.

That is not actually true; Last year there were 172 prompts and just over 200 writers signed up. Regardless, last year's mod didn't rule out the option of allowing multiple claims for the same prompt, and people did leave in a huff; both for that reason and the one you mentioned.

And if you read up the page, you will see that artists are in fact allowed to turn in two prompts, as long as they make our Early Bird Deadline.

ETA: Oops, sorry... changing of the guard. I didn't realize you already got a reply. /same mod

I was coming over to ask if you if you had an approximate time but then I saw that you'd posted this comment that mentioned it. I just now noticed what day that the claims are opening up: directly in the middle of the week. I should have looked at that sooner. Now I'm hoping that you'll either have the claiming start VERY early in my timezone or later on in the evening. I don't want to miss out. ;_;

Ah yes, sorry about that... We rescheduled because of the meltdown, and there's just so much going on in fandom at the moment that we were simply focussing on not conflicting with other claims, deadlines, and challenges. We really can't say what time it'll be yet, but it will be announced around the same time the prompt posts go up for previewing. I really hope you do get something you like!

I have a question in regards to the art content. In the rules it states that we may not submit art that has previously been posted, which I completely understand. However, are we allowed to use, say, a manip we've previously made and incorporate it into an entirely different piece of art? Specifically, I have a rather elaborate scene in mind that I would like to put together for one of my prompts, and have realized that some time ago, I've done a simple Sam manipulation that would fit perfectly into it. It would save me a lot of time if it was possible to incorporate that one. I'd be happy to provide more details if you need them to judge.

Just thought I'd ask before my prompt gets kicked off for it. :D

Edited 2011-08-01 19:47 (UTC)

Are there limits to the types of art allowed? For example, depictions of gore or potentially disturbing imagery?

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