Have you ever wanted to ask your favorite comic creator a question? Maybe listened to a podcast and thought, I could ask a better question than that? Well, here’s your chance.
We at MakingComics.com are working on designing a new Gutter Talk project (which may potentially be unveiled as a panel at San Diego Comic-Con International 2018 – yes, THAT Comic-Con) and both the questions and the guests will be determined by you. We’ve been so blown away by the overwhelming positive response by learners in our “How To Make A Comic Book” Coursera course that we’ve decided we want you to be the center of what we are doing next.
But we don’t want you to just email us questions or guest suggestions.
No, we have something cooler in mind.
Using your phone or a webcam to record yourself, make a video that is posted to YouTube*. Record yourself saying your name, where you’re from, the artist or writer you want to ask a question, and your question. If you prefer to just ask a question but not for any specific guest in mind, send us those videos, too!
*Instructions included below.
Then, during the panel/podcast, we’ll play the video live and get your question answered right there on the spot. Won’t be at Comic-Con? No worries! We’ll be releasing this as a Gutter Talk podcast so you can hear if your question was asked and answered during the panel.
Read the instructions below for information on your chance to get your question featured at 2018 San Diego Comic-Con.
Start sending in your questions today!
Sincerely,
Patrick Yurick | Lead Instructor | MakingComics.com
Adam Greenfield | Gutter Talk Podcast Host | MakingComics.com
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Video Requirements For Consideration
- Please keep your question to under a minute or less.
- Please do not do any fancy editing to the video (swipes, animations, drawings, etc.). We are planning to edit the videos all together and to do that we need “pure you” on the webcam. So try and center your head in the video. On that note: Please don’t obscure your face in the shot. Make sure it is you. And please no music underneath the audio.
- Professional attire and language please – this is an all-ages site, course, and comic-con panel.
- If you don’t have YouTube access where you are, please host it on another video site and send us the link. We can’t accept video files directly from anyone – so make sure it is uploaded and there is a shareable link where we can access the final footage.
- In your video please use this order of information flow for your video:
- Introduce yourself (first name only, unless you are comfortable giving out your entire name),
- then say your age and what country (and town/city if you are ok with sharing that info),
- at this point please pause(one full breath),
- then say the professional comic book artist and/or writer you’d like your question asked of,
- pause again (one full breath), then state your question.
- The pauses are for us to be able to edit a montage of the submitted videos together. The other reason for the pauses is if we can’t get the creator your question is for to help us with the panel, we’d like to be able to ask another creator. If you do the pausing for us it allows your question a higher likelihood of being incorporated into the panel.
- Once you’ve made your video email it to us at makingcomicsdotcom@gmail.com