Posts tagged LARPS

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 …

This year’s nominees were announced this afternoon during a special edition of the web series news program SERIAL SCOOP NOW, hosted by Jillian Clare. 56 different series, produced in 7 different countries and spanning multiple genres, will compete for awards in 30 categories representing various fields of acting and production.

Last night on the Super Geeked Up show Jeff Burns announced the nominees for the 2015 IAWTV Awards and you can see the full list of nominees here.

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.

Spending years developing a series about Live Action Role Playing, co creator Julian Stamboulieh couldn’t get the project off the ground until he made some industry contacts, and most importantly convinced long time LARPer Jon Verrall to pen the series.