Science Fiction
Pros:
Interesting locations
Translates well to SL
Doesn’t rely on actor strength
Panders to the audience
Cons:
Stuff is a bitch to make
Super prims
Can’t take itself seriously
Romance
No just no
Comedy
Pros:
People will react better
Idea translates better
In-Jokes
Con:
Does rely on actor strength
Drama
Pros:
Story driven
Can pull in audience
Translates well into the medium
Cons:
Actor driven
Script driven
High difficulty to pull off
Can’t take itself too seriously
Action
Pro:
Are not script driven
More set driven
Doesn’t rely on actor strength
Cons:
Hard to find action plays
Doesn’t translate into play format well
Horror
Cons:
Doesn’t translate well at all into a virtual environment
Mystery
Pro:
Draws in audience
Cons:
Needs a good script
Musical
Pro:
Can fit to any style
Con:
Needs singing
Western
Pros/Cons:
See drama/action
Con:
Narrow audience
Adventure
Pros:
Makes full use of SL spawning
Translates well
Con:
Tends on the longer side
Story driven
Lots of set building
Horror can be done either extremely well, or not at all. It is extremely hard to do a horror genre well on stage, but with Second Life special effects, we could really immerse the audience in the suspense. The problem is that all it takes is one bad model or animation to make it go from intense to cheesy.
ReplyDeleteThe mystery genre is practically built to engage the audience, but it doesn't have much to offer that we can use in Second Life that we couldn't otherwise do in real life. It's all about the script.
Musical is out of the question unless we get some outside help. Aside from our lack of singing voices, there is little we can do with it as far as Second Life.
Adventure and western are completely doable, the only problem is it will need an exceptional script or we risk losing audience interest.