Your 'Verse, Your Words
As it says over at the top of the sidebar on the main index, Big Damn Commentaries will be a clearinghouse of audio commentary tracks recorded by Browncoats for episodes of the Joss Whedon television series Firefly and its major motion picture follow-up Serenity.
As should be obvious, it isn't quite there yet. We have a fair number of things to put together before this site is ready to take your submissions, but it makes some sense to offer at least a brief idea of what we're after.
Obviously, we're not talking about audio commentaries in the traditional sense, meaning those offered as part of DVDs themselves. Rather, this site will be a one-stop guide to Browncoat-recorded commentaries, in the form of mp3s, which can be played while watching a particular episode of Firefly or the DVD of Serenity once it's released.
In the coming weeks, we will be setting forth some general guidelines (once we write them) and instructions, and explaining just how to submit your commentary track, and other necessary information, for inclusion here.
To start with, we will not be hosting the mp3s themselves here on this site. In the early days, you will have to have a place to host those files, and we will simply be linking to them from here. That said, those links also will be included in the feeds here, and our RSS 2.0 feed will be Podcast-ready to make it simple to keep up-to-date with commentaries that have been submitted.
In addition, we will have email notifications for which you can register to keep similarly up-to-date, and this functionality should be available at the individual item, category, and blog-wide levels (once we set this up).
For now, consider this the general pre-launch introduction, and the invitation to check back in the coming weeks for information on how to submit, or make use of, Browncoat-created audio commentary tracks.