Media enquiry

Community Larp discussion
#1

Hi everyone,

I’m Rebecca Lee and am a student journalist at AUT writing for our uni paper Te Waha Nui. I am writing a feature piece and am interested in doing this on LARPing. I find the activity so interesting and it’s something that not many people know about.

My aim as a journalist is to encourage the communities that people may not know much about. So for this piece I want to celebrate the LARPing community, not judge or destroy it.

My friend and I stopped by at the Auckland LARP yesterday at the domain and I was told by an organiser to make a post on this forum.

Basically I’m just wondering if anyone would be keen to talk to me about their experiences?

Any response would be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

Either comment here or, if you’re keen to know more, send me an email on beccajanelee@gmail.com.

Thanks so much,

Rebecca
:smiley:

#2

Would be more than happy to chat with you.

#3

I’d be happy to talk to you. I work in the CBD and have free time on Thursday evenings if that helps.

#4

Also happy to meet with you :slight_smile: Derek, Vanya and I have been heavily involved in the New Zealand larp community for quite a few years. I work in the CBD as well.

#5

I would be more than happy to be interviewed too. I work in the CBD and am available after work most nights :slight_smile:

#6

I’d also be willing to talk to you (I like Vanya, Derek and Anna have been involved for many years) but it looks like you have a good line up already.

#7

Give us a call. I can give a Maori perspective. :mrgreen:

#8

I would be happy to assist as well.

As a backgrounder, you may want to search for The Mordavian Truth on youtube, its a mid-2000s doco on what was, at the time, the largest larp in the country.

Also, in the interest of journalistic consistency, every interview must include a question along the lines of “So, do you have a problem with people thinking the game is real and losing their grip on reality?”. That was a joke, but it’s amazing how often professional journalists ask that question :wink:

#9

And the “Having A Larp” clip that someone did a few years ago, that was based around Chimera. Was it 20/20?

#10

Yep. Google “Having a larp 20/20” to bring it up. Don’t go to Youtube, the qualiy is worse and comes wiyh a boatload of horrid comments.

#11

On the other hand, both of those pieces are also great examples of how a well-meaning journalist can have the intention of showing a fun hobby in a fair light, and mostly do so, but also end up poking fun a bit along the way. Good intentions often fall to the temptation of the easy laugh. Editors add their own spin too, and it’s typically unfavourable.

Not wanting to be too negative or anything. :wink:

#12

Best larp documentary I ever saw was the one Judit did for her school. Is there a copy of this somewhere?

#13

Never read Youtube comments. On anything. For the sake of your immortal soul!

#14

Never read Youtube comments. On anything. For the sake of your immortal soul![/quote]
Seconded :open_mouth:

#15

Ben Kenobi would never have said those mean things about Mos Eisley if he’d ever seen Youtube comments.

#16

I would be happy to do an interview, though I live in Palmerston Nth so it would have to be phone or e-mail.

#17

I put the “Having a Larp” doco on the nzlarps Facebook photo page ages ago here:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150116107722516&set=o.5598024429&type=3&theater

#18

Thank you everyone for the replies and the suggestions of videos to watch!

Would it be easier if I posted some questions as a post and everyone could answer them rather than getting in touch individually?

Thanks a lot,

Rebecca

beccajanelee@gmail.com

#19

I think that if you post openly you’ll get bombed with alot of opinions/answers.

IMHO possibly best to get in contact individually