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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 give players a break and an opportunity to think through their larping without having to change the ambiencego 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 hence the common misunderstanding that a black box and a meta room is often suggested they play out flash-backs (scenes that happened before the same. A black box can also be used for other [[meta technique]]s than the meta room during the runtime of a longer larp) or flash-forwards (scenes that may occur in . Black boxes is also used as the entire venue for a hypothetical future)larp. In This is most common for shorter larps, and some casesrefer to the short [[Black box larps]] as a separate genre of larps. There are also examples of longer larps with many players run in large black boxes, such as [[Mellan himmel och hav]], an organizer might be present in [[Delirium]] and [[Kapo]]. Kapo also has a small black box for meta room usage inside the large black box to help players facilitate their scenes and control that made up the sound and lightsplaying area.

A player may invite any other players to enter == 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 as a meta room. Short black boxlarps has predominantly been played at festivals such as [[Prolog]] and [[Grenselandet]], probably due to the accessibility of blackboxes at these festival venues. Invitations might be made by In [[2012]] the player whispering off-gamefestival [[Blackbox CPH]] was started, or by giving symbolic gifts such as a featherthe first event focusing solely on short black box larps.

There are also organizer networks that run black box larps on more regular basis, such as [[Blackbox Malmø]] and [[Blackbox Deichman]] in Oslo. == Uses Notable Black box chamberlarps ==Black boxes * [[Hvid Død]]* [[Sarabande]]* [[Sort Sol]]* [[Mulholland Larp]]* [[When Our Destinies Meet]]* [[All the little boys are used 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 enrich the stories of the characters beyond the time war]]* [[The ones we left behind]]* [[A mother's heart]]* [[The heist]]* [[Beginning]]* [[The boy and space of the "main" larp, and to give players a break and an opportunity to think through their larping without having to go offmilk]]* [[I know you are but what am I?]] == Notable Black box large-game.scale larps == * [[Mellan himmel och hav]]* [[Delirium]]* [[Kapo]]

==See also==* [[Tape Larp]]* [[Chamber Larp]]* [[Meta Room]]* [[Black boxes might also be used for playing/dancing a symbolic version of something that is meant to be happening in-game, such as two characters fighting or having sex.Box Larp]]

== History External links == The black box has long history in the theatre world and was * [http://blackbox-cph.dk Blackbox Cph] (probablyDenmark) introduced first as technique in nordic larp at * [[Swedishhttps://www.facebook.com/blackboxmlm/ Blackbox Malmö]], (Sweden)* [[En stilla middag med familjen]] in [[2007]]https://www.facebook. In [[2012]] the festival [[com/blackboxdeichman/ Blackbox CPHDeichman]] was started, focused on short larps using black box techniques.(Norway)

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