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[trekrevbangmod]

What is Trek Reverse Bang?

Trek Reverse Bang is based on startrekbigbang, except here the art comes first. Artists create their art, send in their drafts and authors choose the pieces in a blind claims post. Then the authors write a minimum of 6K words based on the artwork and starting from the 12th of May, the fandom gets a whole bunch of delightful presents.

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[ileliberte]

1. Ideally, we want the claiming process to be 1:1, so that one artist gets one author. However, since we don't know yet how many authors and artists we'll end up with, doing more than one piece might not work out if there are not enough authors as artists. Author signups end March 1, so if you're willing to gamble with it and make a second piece that's substantial enough to be submitted as a draft by March 6th, we will use both pieces as separate claims if it turns out that there are more authors than artists. Do remember that we strongly encourage collaboration between the artists and authors after the author claims, so please pace yourself accordingly.

2. It's a first-claim-first-served system. What we'll be doing is setting up a post on the mod lj locked only to the authors, where we'll have links to all the artwork (without any artist names attached) and then authors will pick a piece that they think would work best with the kind of fic they write. If there are more authors than artists, double claims will be allowed until every author has something to write for. We, the mods, will not be doing any assigning ourselves. No algorithms at all :D

3. I'm afraid I don't really know any completed reverse bangs specifically, but I know there's another comm called pictures2words that's doing the same thing (SPN, Leverage and RPF) and it started before this one, so might have a little more for you to see even if final posts haven't been made there yet. Our inspiration was mainly the various bigbangs themselves, and the SGA comm called artword where teams of authors and artists completed collaborative works according to various different challenge parameters. You might want to check that out too.

Please feel free to ask for clarifications if I was unclear about anything :)

[ileliberte]

1. There do appear to be more artists and authors. What I meant was, might an artist draw 2-3 pictures as part of the same claim for one story to be based on?

Also another random question (sorry for the hassle!) - what if we recognize the artist (since art is more distinctive than a word summary)? Is it still ok to claim it?

Thanks so much for answering all these questions! ^^;

[ileliberte]

1. For the claims part of the process, we want only one piece per story, so if someone has, say, 2 or 3 pieces already made for the same story, we'll ask them to make a collage of the pieces so that ultimately it's just one actual image we use for the authors to claim. We don't want to confuse the authors with multiple pieces when it's meant to be for a single story, and this is the best way to have the artist present all the pieces and the author to have a single number to choose when claiming. Does that make sense?

Heh, fortunately or unfortunately, art styles are generally hard to disguise especially if the artist is prolific, and if an author recognizes it, well, that's just how it is. We won't be asking people to stay away from the artists they recognize, first claim first served after all. We'll just be making sure on our end that we don't have any names attached to any of the artwork during claims. After that, if someone chooses an artist they recognize, it's really not a big deal. I daresay some artists figure out who the authors are from pairing/plot choices in bigbang claims too :)

No problem at all, feel free to make us clarify anything else you might want to know.