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A black box is a room where players may go during with black walls, no windows, flat floor and no furniture. Most rooms that are black or dark with little or no furniture will pass as a black box for larp purposes, even though it would not suffice as a black box for all other purposes, such as film or TV production. By cleaning out other all visual elements, the black box makes it easy to play scenes that don't fit into catch attention with few and simple props or light effects. Sometimes the players are also asked to dress in black in order to strengthen this effect. Usually the here-black box is equipped with theatre lights and-now of the larpan audio system.

== Description Uses== A The black box usually has an audio system is frequently used as a [[meta room]] where the players can go during the runtime of a longer larp. In the meta room the players may enrich the stories of the characters beyond the time and adjustable lightsspace of the "main" larp, making it easy and to change the ambiencegive players a break and an opportunity to think through their larping without having to go off-game. Players may An early use it whatever way they likeof a black box for a meta room was in the larp [[En stilla middag med familjen]], but it is often suggested they play out flash-backs (scenes that happened before hence the larp) or flash-forwards (scenes common misunderstanding that may occur in a hypothetical future)black box and a meta room is the same. In some cases, an organizer might A black box can also be present in used for other [[meta technique]]s than the black box to help players facilitate their scenes and control meta room during the sound and lightsruntime of a longer larp.

A player may invite any other players Black boxes is also used as the entire venue for a larp. This is most common for shorter larps, and some refer to enter the black short [[Black box. Invitations might be made by the player whispering off-game, or by giving symbolic gifts such larps]] as a featherseparate genre of larps.

== Uses ==Black boxes There are used to enrich the stories also examples of the characters beyond the time and space of the "main" larplonger larps with many players run in large black boxes, such as [[Mellan himmel och hav]], [[Delirium]] and to give players [[Kapo]]. Kapo also has a break and an opportunity to think through their larping without having to go off-gamesmall black box for meta room usage inside the large black box that made up the playing area.

Black boxes might also be ==History==The black box has long history in the theatre world and was (probably) introduced first as technique in Nordic larp at [[Swedish]], [[En stilla middag med familjen]] in 2007, where it was used for playing/dancing as a symbolic version meta room. Short black box larps has predominantly been played at festivals such as [[Prolog]] and [[Grenselandet]], probably due to the accessibility of something that is meant to be happening in-gameblackboxes at these festival venues. In 2012 the festival [[Blackbox CPH]] was started, such as two characters fighting or having sexthe first event focusing solely on short black box larps.

== History == The There are or have been organizer networks that run black box has long history in the theatre world and was (probably) introduced first larps on more regular basis, such as technique in nordic larp at [[SwedishBlackbox Malmø]], (defunct) and [[En stilla middag med familjenBlackbox Deichman]] in [[2007]]. In [[2012]] the festival [[Blackbox CPH]] was started, focused on short larps using black box techniquesOslo.

==Notable Black box chamber larps== *[[Hvid Død]]*[[Sarabande]]*[[Sort Sol]]*[[Mulholland Larp]]*[[When Our Destinies Meet]]*[[All the little boys are dead]]*[[The Baader-Meinhof Experiment]]*[[Innocense]]*[[Retropolis]]*[[Huntsville]]*[[The kick inside]]*[[Have you come here to play Jesus?]]*[[Fallen stars]]*[[The living newspaper]]*[[Toast to the war]]*[[The ones we left behind]]*[[A mother's heart]]*[[The heist]]*[[Beginning]]*[[The boy and the milk]]*[[I know you are but what am I?]] ==Notable Black box large-scale larps== *[[Mellan himmel och hav]]*[[Delirium]]*[[Kapo]] ==See also== *[[Tape Larp]]*[[Chamber Larp]]*[[Meta Room]]*[[Black Box Larp]] ==External links== *[http://blackbox-cph.dk Blackbox Cph] (Denmark)*[https://www.facebook.com/blackboxmlm/ Blackbox Malmö] (Sweden)*[https://www.facebook.com/blackboxdeichman/ Blackbox Deichman] (Norway)  [[categoryCategory:TechniquesConcepts]]