Cosplay skits are often excruciatingly dull. People have *no* clue what is and is not funny, have no clue how to FACE THE FRICKIN' AUDIENCE*, have no idea how to project their voices, and have no idea how to talk into microphones.
And let's not get into the fact that they feel the need to fill their 3-minute time slot, so put in a lot of running around or veeeeery sloooow posing just to stay on stage, which bores the audience. Or they go over because they enver timed their skit, and the cosplay organiziners never cut the skits short, even though they say they'll do it in the program book.
And back to the voices - if there are no microphones, they won't have practiced in a large room so they don't know how to speak loudly without yelling - especially over a rowdy audience. If there are microphones, they hold them far away from their mouths - like down near their waists - because they have no clue that the mics won't pick up their voices unless they're right next to their mouths. And they don't realize that even though *they* can hear their voices, nobody past the first row can.
* If two characters are talking to each other on stage, you fake it by turning only 1/4 to each other and 3/4 towards the audience. Profiles are deadly dull on stage, as are backs, unless there's a specific reason to show the back.
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And let's not get into the fact that they feel the need to fill their 3-minute time slot, so put in a lot of running around or veeeeery sloooow posing just to stay on stage, which bores the audience. Or they go over because they enver timed their skit, and the cosplay organiziners never cut the skits short, even though they say they'll do it in the program book.
And back to the voices - if there are no microphones, they won't have practiced in a large room so they don't know how to speak loudly without yelling - especially over a rowdy audience. If there are microphones, they hold them far away from their mouths - like down near their waists - because they have no clue that the mics won't pick up their voices unless they're right next to their mouths. And they don't realize that even though *they* can hear their voices, nobody past the first row can.
* If two characters are talking to each other on stage, you fake it by turning only 1/4 to each other and 3/4 towards the audience. Profiles are deadly dull on stage, as are backs, unless there's a specific reason to show the back.