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Also known as meta room, a 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 the here-catch attention with few and-now of simple props or light effects. Sometimes the larp. The term is players are also used asked to describe a stand alone larp that takes place entirely dress in black in a order to strengthen this effect. Usually the black boxis equipped with theatre lights and an 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.

A game can There are also take place entirely in a blackbox, where all examples of longer larps with many players are dressed run in large black clothesboxes, such as [[Mellan himmel och hav]], occasionally using props [[Delirium]] and/or costumes[[Kapo]]. Kapo also has a small black box for meta room usage inside the large black box that made up the playing area.

== Uses History==Black boxes are used to enrich The black box has long history in the stories of the characters beyond the time theatre world and space of the "main" was (probably) introduced first as technique in Nordic larpat [[Swedish]], [[En stilla middag med familjen]] in 2007, and to give players where it was used as a break meta room. Short black box larps has predominantly been played at festivals such as [[Prolog]] and an opportunity [[Grenselandet]], probably due to think through their larping without having to go off-gamethe accessibility of blackboxes at these festival venues. In 2012 the festival [[Blackbox CPH]] was started, the first event focusing solely on short black box larps.

Black boxes might also be used for playing/dancing a symbolic version of something There are or have been organizer networks that is meant to be happening in-gamerun black box larps on more regular basis, such as two characters fighting or having sex[[Blackbox Malmø]] (defunct) and [[Blackbox Deichman]] in Oslo.

== History Notable Black box chamber larps== 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]]. In [[2012]] the festival [[Blackbox CPH]] was started, focused on short larps using black box techniques.

== Notable Black Box larps ==* [[Hvid Død]]* [[Sarabande]]* [[Sort Sol]]* [http://scenariofestival.se/archive/scenarios/mulholland-larp/ [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]]

*[[Tape Larp]]*[[Chamber Larp]]*[[Meta Room]]*[[Black Box Larp]] == External Links links== * [http://hoegdallblackbox-cph.wix.com/blackbox dk Blackbox CopenhagenCph] (Denmark)* [https://www.facebook.com/blackboxmlm/ Blackbox Malmö] (Sweden)* [https://www.facebook.com/blackboxdeichman/ Blackbox Deichman] (Norway)

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