Monster Camp
This documentary trailer discusses a subset of fantasy roleplayers, LARPers (Live Action Role Playing). While short, how does this trailer depict the participants in this hobby? How does it seem to define them? How do the players identify themselves?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Labels
- Justin Bieber (1)
Followers
Powered by Blogger.
Blog Archive
-
▼
2011
(17)
-
▼
October
(12)
- New Halloween Costume: Illegal Alien
- Where the Dirty Hipsters Are
- Does Nickelback Really Rule?
- An Unhealthy Obsession with Snooki
- Test.
- "May the 4th be with you"
- Real-life Twilight
- This Will Never End - A Song about the Harry Potte...
- Hottest Topics on the Web Right Now.
- The Great Meteor of 1998
- Monster Camp
- Molly's Secret Shame: D&D
-
▼
October
(12)
4 comments:
The trailer depicts the participants of LARPers in a very effective way. The music chosen, the outfits the characters are wearing, and their actions all contribute to the identity created around them about their hobby, which is fantasy. The video seems to define the players as somewhat strange in the way that they have a hobby that they themselves said, "isn't mainstream." From what I saw, the players didn't exactly define themselves in any certain way, but they most definitely unknowingly identified themselves as lovers of LARPers.
Im wondering why they RP and interact and dont just play world of warcraft. Id feel kinda dumb acting like im a monster or something that can cast spells. Maybe my child like ability to make believe left me back some time ago. Where did it go and who has it?
The video clip shows a variety of people that enjoy engaging in role playing. I feel as though the clip depicts these people as wanting to be in a different world. To me I feel as if they don't like or appreciate the world they actually live in. I think that because of this idea that they can go to another place really defines who they are. They all get an extreme amount of pleasure from being someone they're not, or someone they think they are. Part of me thinks that these people don't like the world they live in and that they most definitely feel more comfortable in this imaginary place that they have created for themselves. It makes me wonder why they enjoy to be someone else and what happened to them in their life in the real world for them to not want to be in it. Then again, it makes me think about that even though to me the idea of role playing is odd, that this could be a great escape for people need to get away from it all.
A main theme I kept noticing from this video was the idea of escaping everyday life. This portrays LARPers as people who aren't satisfied with their everyday lives so they need to create a world in which they thrive. I don't think this was very effective in explaining a LARPer because not all of them are trying to excape. It's pinning them in a stereotype. Which isn't sterotyping the thing this video is trying to disprove? The video is aimed at breaking the stigma that LARPing is for everyday people and I think it achieves the opposite.
Post a Comment