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I was in a randomly pissy mood for no reason whatsoever* until I came across this YouTube link in flamika's LLJ: L and Light in a dance-off at Otakon. (Note to people in A-Kon's and AnimeFest's cosplays: PLEASE pre-record your dialogue like this. None of you know how to use a microphone or project.)





* but probably the fault of the headache I've had for 24 hours. Damn time change.

Comments

[cyancat.livejournal.com]

I can tell that you have some.... qualms about skits. ;)
I too know about using your voice and making a presentation. I've seen enough to know that we wish we could scream at them to speak up!

And skits are to be actually funny, sometimes their joke is only an inside thing that no one else will get.

THe best skit I saw was called Anime Sells Out. and had mini commercials of anime characters eating doritos, making slogans for pop, and even diamonds. But the delivery was what made it wondeful!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You should ph33r my one semester of theatre arts! (Well, and being in a school play, and running a light board, and so on.)

I think the skit I like best from the humor standpoint was one that was thrown together at the last minute before signups closed, by people running around and grabbing people costumed as well-known bishounen and asking if they wanted to be in the cosplay. The skit itself was just them standing on stage in a row for a few seconds as the audience noticed that they were all bishounen from various series, and then starting to jam out as the Backstreet Boys' "Larger Than Life" blared out. Total running time: about 30 seconds.

The skit I liked best from the technical standpoint, because it showcased the costumes very well, as well as the characters they were portraying, was a Milice Mizer cosplay group that, I think, recreated the dance and movements from a Malice Mizer video. They won Best of Show, and beat out the group of girls that had won something like three years in a row. The non-winners had several mistakes: they cosplayed Fruits Basket characters before the manga had gotten much exposure here and wore school uniforms to do it so that they weren't that recognizable, they wrote and performed a song (well, ok, that was their schtick that won them the prize before for Sailor Moon cosplay and something else), and NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM could project, so their entire skit and song was completely incomprehensible. They'd managed to do better in previous years because it was in a different hotel, with better acoustics, and they didn't put music on as a background, which drowned out whatever volume they managed to summon up.