Posts tagged larp

Wait, what is this?! A #WebSeriesWednesday review?! Ya, it’s been awhile since I’ve written one of these, perhaps I’ve been busy LARPing? You’ll never know …

“One of the guiding themes of the series is that gamers can be normal cool people, too. I often find in gamer targeted media, that gamers and geeks are presented as odd or stereotypical with little to no social skills”

It can sometimes be extremely tempting to take someone on board a passion project like a web series because they hold certain advantages: maybe they’re extremely skilled, or maybe they can save the production significant money. Don’t do it!

The five leads in LARPs: The Series are all classically trained theatre actors. The key point, here, is that they’re theatre actors, and that means that there are some unique challenges when performing for a web series.

My girlfriend just broke up with me at Subway, my car probably got towed and everyone is counting on me to not screw up. This snazzy, round, glass thing, destined to be known as “The Eleventh Eye,” is proof I came through in the clutch.

My hatred of job interviews should have convinced me to never be an actor. I’m not terribly smart.

It’s all a sort of mix of acting, role-playing, sporting and highbrow nerdiness. It’s very much akin to a Civil War reenactment, but more like reenacting the battle of Helm’s Deep, or the latest battle you fought in DnD.

If a series is a tower, the script is the foundation. Everything rests on it. If it sucks, you pretty much guarantee that everyone else’s hard work gets wasted.