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I just had a really bizzare idea for a different style of event. Don't know if its an original idea or not but it amused me!
The event is based on a film being shot. Participants play Actors, investors, crew and various other big wigs.
The event format is the fun part. You ACTUALLY have to try to make a film over the weekend and equipment is hired for the players (obviously it wont be a fest lol). While it is going on, their will be ham behind the scenes plot e.g. business complications, relationship troubles, problems from the press, crime on set etc ... it has virtually endless possibilities.
An actor can storm off set if they want, but they have to think about their jobs and the newpaper reports.
I figure that each character would need flaws and merits that will hinder, help them in certain situations (this could get very comedy and good for the OOC laughing later). Actors might be typecast and it would affect if they are picked for a particular role...though all acors must have a part in the film.
At the end of the event, you could have screening of the finished movie and the event crew could play press and investors would would get angry/happy at the result.
What do you think?
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Sounds like real life to me. I'm already doing that! 
Seriously if you dont actually know how to make a film technically then it will be bafling. You would have to have people who know stuff. Also filming is very top down, is long and boreing when your not busy. Having a game and making a film are very different.
Maybe somehow do it during the after party, stuff has happened, reports of actors being replaced for death scenes. Drugs at the party, the funding has gone short, will there be enough to do a print, etc.
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I don’t know about doing an entire fest based on it, but we tried a smaller scale earlier this summer at Zombiefest. We played a outside broadcast camera crew in the 1970’s zombie game for the pilot episode of a kids TV show. We had a producer director, presenter, puppeteer, a make up artist and cameraman – each with very definite merits and flaws. Inside our 1970’s looking camera there was hidden a digital video camera to take pictures of the action.
The results were funny… to us… But I doubt anybody else would want to see it.
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I'm thinking that we give briefing sheets to each person for their role... but keep it simple.
My image of the finished film is utter carnage. Because people are roleplaying the knowledge, its pure blag and if the whole movie is dreadful, its part of the fun.  It'll get everyone pissing themselves during the screening. I figure it would be down to the director/post production bod and an npc (experienced) editor to edit the movie and hide it from the rest until the screening.
It wouldn't be like real life I don't think as it would be utterly ham behind the scenes. If everyone has fun objectives (character and general), it would keep everyone busy.
I think it would have to be unrealistic in terms of roles as you would need to give everyone something to do, especially for those character who are not actors. Maybe it would be worth giving everyone 2 or even 3 characters (an actor, a member of crew, a 3rd party i.e. press/investor etc).
It would be funny to make them use a script you give them (good event name hook) so as they work through it, there will be funny surprises.
There could also be a scooby doo style plot where subtle weird things are happening on set in parallell with the script. Something else for characters to investigate in their spare time.
OH....a thought!!! STUNT MEN(AND WOMEN)!!! I am thinking that murder will be possible on set and so hurting yourself in accidents must be too. It could be that more dangerous parts of the film will be marked as "dangerous" on the script... a ref will over see the scene and if a stuntman isn't used the actor could be more severely damaged than a stuntman would be, if it goes wrong. From the player point of view, they would have to make sure the stuntman looks vaguely like the actor on film or they lose points from their score for the finished product. The score will be a way for investors and the press to know whether to give it a good or bad reception.
I think you'd need to maximise players to no more than 30 players.
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Gnoll colony is recruiting!
(pm for details and about discount gnoll masks)
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The Chieftains Cavalcade 1659
A fine medley of games, banqueting, music and surprises for all friendly folk of the New World!
March 6th - 8th
Stockwood Iron Age Village LRP Site
(booking & Info at: http://www.gnolls.co.uk/event)
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Cool, do a blair witch type documentary, crossed with all that 70's chesse. I would love to do that larp. Maybe having it end in as the camera man watchs everyone die or something equally horrible!
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