How well received would a noncombatant cameraman be on the field? This would assume that the cameraman would be someone intimately familiar with SCA heavy combat and currently authorized to participate in heavy and/or light combat activities. They would at the very least wear a light-fighter's minimum field gear and display appropriate noncombatant markings. And at no time would the cameraman be involved in a thick press of fighting, like on a bridge or castle gate engagement, instead keeping to rules of engagement much like combat archers.
He'd be sort of like the guys who tagged along behind SEAL Team 6 during their "Red Cell" assaults on Navy bases, or the cameramen on "Cops."
This individual would not be on the field for every combat, but would instead augment traditional long-lens filming techniques with the SCA heavy combat version of an "extreme close-up."
My other whack-ass imagery idea is to use those "stick-anywhere-spycam" things to fashion some kind of helmet-cam. But that would necessarily yield up a lot of Blair Witch-quality footage and I'd rather not have to eat Dramamine before watching a fight video.
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