Yay, Mitch! I think you have a really good voice and speaking manner to do a podcast. You could review the latest Pixar video games on different platforms, and even research and do a report on old Pixar video games of yore (Toy Story on Sega, A Bug’s Life on PC etc). You wouldn’t necessarily have to play those video games. A lot of websites have screencaps and sometimes even video. That sounds like a really neat segment idea.
How often would the podcast be released? I don’t think it would be worth it trying to do this end then end up disappointing the listeners by not delivering on schedule. Every three weeks sounds about right to me, and if we are really organised, maybe every two weeks. If we got a few people making one segment each, then the workload would be considerably lighter and there would be more of a chance of delivering each episode in time (in theory.) And then the whole show would be pulled together by the host.
I also think if the podcast goes ahead it, should be more interactive and have more input and feedback from this forum, of which Radio Pixar wasn’t. Which is fine, if that was their style, but we have members and threads/discussions here that would be too good to waste.
Rachel - Ha-ha. Oh, pish-posh, my voice sounds terrible. I think that it’s tooo… “Californian”, in my opinion. Oh well. Thank you! I’m glad that you like it. (heh)
I agree with you in that, if a second Pixar-related podcast is to be established, the schedule it runs on should be a timely, punctual, and decent one that will not disappoint its listeners.
Agreed. I always thought the same thing, although I never voiced it orally or in writing. I would like it if there was a podcast which touched on the forums of Pixar Planet in addition to national and international Pixar news.
Sigh. Mitch, no matter how many times I say it, you just won’t believe me: your voice is lovely and you have a very easy-to-listen-to accent, too.
There’s also the possibility before going on any further that we could offer to take over Radio Pixar as it is now. No matter how unlikely I think it is, it’s always worth a try to ask…
Yeah, I’d love to give news on the international side of things, or at least the Australian side. I don’t think that would be very much news, though, but it would still be good to have news outside of the US, from other countries.
Most of my time, my main project here is the Pixar commentaries, so that would be a first priority for me, I think. But if I was only given one segment to record and produce per fortnight (two weeks), then that shouldn’t be a problem. We could also have a different co-host every week or bring in special guests to share the load, and to also give people a chance to be on the show at least once.
I also have tons of other ideas I wrote down a while back, one of them being that we could invite two members of this forum into the “studio” and pit them against each other in a Pixar quiz. You could have two general Pixar fans, or two Ratatouille fans etc and see who reigns supreme in that Pixar field. Heheh. Or we could have a point/counter-point debating segment where we have two members discussing, for example, Pixar doing sequels or whether Pixar should do live-action. I think it would be really interesting, and bring a bit of fun and balance to the show, so we don’t just have Pixar news the whole time, though, that’s important, too. I have other ideas, but those are just a couple for now.
The Pixarian - What kind of segments in the show are you thinking of having? What would be your plan for this podcast and its objective?
Rachel - Heheh. Yeah, sorry about that. I’m one of those people who’s overly critical about themselves; one of those dudes who’s like, “No, you’re wrong! I suck!” (snigger) I should really change my attitude in that field.
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I forgot to reply to the “video games” idea that you mentioned in your second-to-last post, but, yeah, I’d love to review some of the games. My sister and I have tons of Pixar-related computer and PlayStation 2 games, and we’re always buying the latest ones, so providing critique on them wouldn’t be a problem.
You have a barrel full of great ideas, but I think that this one would have to be my favorite. Now that’s something that I would participate in…
TAMATER - Don’t worry; I’m thinking the same thing. I was too chicken to ask, though.
I’d love to do a podcast with you and we could make it a weekly show or even a bi-weekly show. There is so much to talk about with what is going on in the world of Pixar and even the world of Disney. It’s an exciting time to be a Pixar Fan!
This sounds like such a cool project! I agree, it’s a real shame about the delay of Radio Pixar and something more regular would be a good idea. I hope this project gets the go-ahead, since it’d be nice for members to be able to talk about their thoughts on Pixar outside the Fan Commentaries. It’d be brilliant if Mitch, TSS and Rachel, if you guys are involved because you all know about different aspects of Pixar and would make a Pixar Podcast very interesting and varied! And having guests would mean that the load would be shared and once again, you’d get different voices and opinions.
The folks here at Pixar Planet take pasion and excitement for Pixar to a whole other level. That’s why I wanted to see if anyone from here would want to do a postcast! If we keep the show going and keep it up to date…I might be able to pull some strings and get some guests from Pixar to join the show for interviews!
Among other things (editing? hosting?), I’d like to be involved in a discussion about the Toy Story 3d re-releases and their ramifications for storytelling, home video releasing, the ramp up to Toy Story 3 and future Pixar releases.
Depending on how much my time I have on my hands at the time, I would like to offer my services up to you all whether it be appearing in the podcast, or editing, or uploading it and whatnot.
As for recording the podcast, I am going to suggest the following things:
you each have a decent headset with a good microphone
you can talk to each other over skype, but each of you record your own line in
Then you upload your line in recording to the web and the editor can download them all. This means you get the best quality possible recording of each person, and the editor has a single track of audio for each person which makes it a lot easier to edit.
I agree about each person recording their own voice and having it edited that way. I’m going to be getting a domain name here shortly. I am thinking of turning it into a site about the History of Pixar as well as the podcast as we could grow in size with our listeners. A forum isn’t needed since we’ve got Pixar Planet! Would anyone like to write for the site too? We could cover Pixar based games all the way back from the SNES and original gameboy to the 360 and PS3.
I was thinking we could cover the past of history and even go into their future. It wouldn’t just be the video games. Of course we’d cover the movies and everything that goes with it. Maybe the Art of books and so on.
I love the idea of having people on for a bit of a ‘quiz show’. That could work out really well and even get the listeners into the show even more!
I was thinking maybe we could just have a ‘count down’ to whatever the next Pixar movie would be…maybe even ‘the rest of disney’ and talk about the news with Pixar and Disney. A look back as we cover all the older Pixar stuff.
New shows could be talking about the latest trailers and talk about the movie once its been released. Sadly Pixar movies don’t release the same day all around the world so it will be like the excitement comes back to the show once its released all around the world.
{ Sorry if this is a stupid question everyone already knows.}
If we keep the show going and keep it up to date…I might be able to pull some strings and get some guests from Pixar to join the show for interviews!