Video of Swan and Cross fighting on Jersey

adamstjohn · Post by **adamstjohn** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:41 am

Dear all,

The Company of the Duke's Leopards on Jersey hosted three members of Drachenwald's Company of the Swan and Cross and our good friend Robert of Canterbury.

The Talented filmmaker Andrew Baker-Miles made this wonderful movie:

http://www.baker-miles.com/v1/videos/fo ... 006sml.mov

You'll recognise three regular archivers:

Giles of Redheugh (klappvisor, red gambeson)
Robert of Canterbury (pigface, long long legs)
me (klappvisor, black "pinstripe" gambeson)

and
Terefan Greydragon (pigface, yellow gambeson) the man behind greydragon.org

Look out for Giles breaking his sword on Robert's head...

Enjoy!

Brother Logan · Post by **Brother Logan** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:21 pm

Thats just cool! it needs to go on the SCA online demo page post haste!
Adam your kit looks fantastic! I wish I colud have been there!
Cheers,
Leo

adamstjohn · Post by **adamstjohn** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:21 pm

Logan!

Thanks! Actually my kit is cheap and cheesy compared to the other stuff out there - especially Giles' and Robert's. It just happened to be shiny that day.....

iaenmor · Post by **iaenmor** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:47 pm

Great video. Thanks for posting it. I think it will be one of my favorites for a while. Great fighting, cool music.

LR of E · Post by **LR of E** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:06 pm

What's the music?

audax · Post by **audax** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:26 pm

Does the movie take a while to load? I'm not getting anything.

I wanna see!

Christophe de Frisselle · Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:22 pm

That was great! The music, editing, and cinematography make it something worth showing as much as the people in it. Definitly demo/publicity material.

Richard Blackmoore · Post by **Richard Blackmoore** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:05 pm

I let it sit for 10 minutes and got nothing. I don't know if there is a problem, I have a cable modem so things normally load really fast.

Is the link working right?

MalcolmdeMoffat · Post by **MalcolmdeMoffat** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:14 pm

OMG!!!!

Just got done watching this WOW!!!!

ok Master Aethstan's hands are just wicked fast!!!! OUCH!!

Beautifully done Thank you for posting it.

Brandr · Post by **Brandr** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:43 pm

After I got it to load that was just AWESOME!!!!

that's what I want to be when I grow up!

Brutus · Post by **Brutus** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:21 pm

I did a right-click "save as" to get it to play.

Great video - I really enjoyed that. I'm going to watch it when I am having second thoughts about lugging my gear out the door.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:53 pm

Now I have yet another reason to go to Europe. Baron Elazar (here in Korea) has had nothing but praise for everything done in Drachenwald, and here's more proof.

That was EXCELLENT!! And I've seen a HUGE amount of video on the SCA!

Well done!

What a crowd you guys had! How did you organize such an event?

THAT was the romantic view of the SCA that I love.

I will fade out now into stunned silence.

....
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^ · Post by ^ » Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:56 pm

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:08 am

LR of E wrote:What's the music?

Yes, tell us where we can buy a CD!

Thanks!

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:16 am

Peder wrote:I watched it and honestly I was disapointed after such a big build up and so much work.

Huh?

Could you direct me to a better video? This is better than I've done, and frankly I can't think of a Hollywood bit that matches up to it right now.

The rattan weapons were the only bits I found to be nonhistorical, and they moved so fast that it was a blur...so my imagination could work as well as my memory.

I haven't seen better. Please do show me a better video, please. In any language.

Given the average work time for a minute of production level video is four hours, this five minute video must have taken 20 hours of dedicated work. This is a beautiful labor of love, and I enjoyed it. I would like to buy a DVD level quality of it if possible!

audax · Post by **audax** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:25 am

I've tried everything suggested and I still can't get it to play. Maybe it's my home computer. I'll give a try at work tomorrow.

grrr...stupid technology...feh...

Jehan de Pelham · Post by **Jehan de Pelham** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:56 am

Very excellent! This is one of the best records of what people who care about presentation can accomplish.

John
Jehan de Pelham, esquire and servant of Sir Vitus
www.mron.org

adamstjohn · Post by **adamstjohn** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:06 am

Aaron wrote:What a crowd you guys had! How did you organize such an event?

Ah, we cannot claim the credit there. We were guests of the local reenactment society, the Company of the Duke's Leopards. They had taken on the task of running the "medieval corner" at the Island's agricultural fair. We just turned up with some beautiful tentage, some lovely lovely ladies, and four sluggers in tinplate.

Malcolm de Moffat wrote:ok Master Aethstan's hands are just wicked fast!!!! OUCH!!

Alas no. I am a sloth. I suspect the filmmaker twiddled on his speed dial to give me such prowess. It was my first day in a closed helm and breastplate, and I was pure toast...

^ · Post by ^ » Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:30 am

adamstjohn · Post by **adamstjohn** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 4:21 am

LR of E wrote:What's the music?

The credits say it is called "Live by the Sword", by "Vega".

I don't know any more, I'm afraid.

Cheers

audax · Post by **audax** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:52 pm

Finally got it to play and it KICKED ASS!

I was not disappointed at all. That is why I fight.

OORAH! as we used to say.

audax

Robert of Canterbury · Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:37 am

I Feel So Smug.

It was just as much fun as it looks, if not more so..
(You need to download Quicktime 7.1 to get it smoothly)

I only wish I'd

A) Got a tabard finished.
B) Had a few Glorious Victories, to accompany my magnificent and Splendid Defeats

But if you thought le foire de Jersey looked fun, then you need to come to Raglan Fair...

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=50439

adamstjohn · Post by **adamstjohn** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:36 am

Robert of Canterbury wrote:I only wish I'd ... Had a few Glorious Victories, to accompany my magnificent and Splendid Defeats

You did, old pal: You certainly clobbered me more than I clobbered you. I just promised sexual favours to the film editor to make sure your moments of glory ended on the cutting room floor. Old Hollywood trick...

But truthfully, it was so. And I was just so impressed how well you fought in your pigface. You are so much better at "sixth sensing" than you were just a year ago. Fighting in a closeface for the first time, I have even more respect for the progress you have made.

Cheers!

PS the larger version is now done too. Because of the size, Andrew is asking people to mail him if they want a copy www.baker-miles.com/v1/videos

Sixtus_Goetz · Post by **Sixtus_Goetz** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 5:16 pm

Outstanding! Makes me wish I was back there at times

What a treat, thanks.

Sixtus

gryphon223 · Post by **gryphon223** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:11 pm

That was awesome! Thanks for the link.

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:41 pm

Very nice indeed. Good to see Terafan is doing well and still fighting hard. Give him my regards.

Jean Paul de Sens · Post by **Jean Paul de Sens** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:38 pm

adamstjohn wrote:
Robert of Canterbury wrote:I only wish I'd ... Had a few Glorious Victories, to accompany my magnificent and Splendid Defeats

You did, old pal: You certainly clobbered me more than I clobbered you. I just promised sexual favours to the film editor to make sure your moments of glory ended on the cutting room floor. Old Hollywood trick...

But truthfully, it was so. And I was just so impressed how well you fought in your pigface. You are so much better at "sixth sensing" than you were just a year ago. Fighting in a closeface for the first time, I have even more respect for the progress you have made.

Cheers!

PS the larger version is now done too. Because of the size, Andrew is asking people to mail him if they want a copy www.baker-miles.com/v1/videos

BitTorrent. Use BitTorrent.

JP

Christophe de Frisselle · Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:16 pm

Yes, Bittorrent... Spread the load.

http://urswerks.homeip.net:6969/

I've already emailed about getting the larger better quality version.