[Namron] FW: Needing swordspeople

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Well, the poofy shirt and pants thing leaves Ld Magnus out -- but I can think of a few swishy-pokes who would be able to pull off broad sword play ... maybe forward this request to Weisenfeuer too?  Just a thought ... but Aethelstan would look really swell doing this!!

Bianca
(who just likes to see Ae in tights ... )
(Claryce, forgive me for drooling over your lord!)

In a message dated 10/25/2002 7:47:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, tadhg at ou.edu writes:

>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Grimmie & Wilhelm:  Choreographed live steel. Since it's not our normal gig,
> I wanted to allow our folks (whose experiences extend beyond chivalric
> fighting) an opportunity to speak up. No takers and I'll tell him no.
>
> Bianca:  I'll see if he's interested in "atmosphere" for the shoot...and
> tell Magnus live steel.
>
> Excerpt from today's email (on garb):
>    the time period is sort of indeterminate.  The art on the front of the book
> shows a guy     with a broadsword wearing sort of a leather vest thing with a
> puffy shirt, poofy pants and    boots.
> Sounds like Elizabethan broadsword to me.
>
> I'm not sure how our name came up. It could have been through the student
> group or Medieval Faire.
>
> Any other takers, please drop me a line.
>
> Regards,
> Tadhg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: namron-admin at ansteorra.org [mailto:namron-admin at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Grimmie
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:05 AM
> To: namron at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Namron] FW: Needing swordspeople
>
>
> Are we to assume this is to be choreographed live steel or SCA weapons with
> SCA armor?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tadhg" <tadhg at ou.edu>
> To: "Namron" <namron at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:06 AM
> Subject: [Namron] FW: Needing swordspeople
>
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have the following request from one of the OU professors.
> >
> > Anyone interested in helping out, please send me a message.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tadhg
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Tarpenning [mailto:dtarpenning at ou.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:22 AM
> > To: Chuck Graves
> > Subject: Needing swordspeople
> >
> >
> > Chuck:  We need people who can use broadswords.  We're also going to
> > need a sunny day because this has to be taped outside.  If you could
> > alert your swordspeople--so that when we finally have sun I can call
> > and schedule--that would work better than trying to give you a firm
> > date, then having to call it because of weather.  According to
> > forecasts, this is supposed to last most of the week, so it would
> > perhaps be the first of next week before we can shoot it.
> > The scene we're shooting is actually a background scene for one of
> > our professors who authors sci-fi/fantasy books (she sells to
> > Lucasfilms for the Alien Chronicle series)--the sword fighters would
> > be in costume, fighting, for about thirty seconds--not long, but it's
> > necessary for our video, which is to be used at our
> annual alumni
> > banquet in November.
> >
> > Let me know if this will work
> >
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