Treasure Chase
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- A film I made when I was fifteen. It was my first all live-action production. Shot at Peckforton Castle, near Bunbury in Cheshire (the last shot is actually of Beeston Castle on the next hill), where today there is a very up-market restaurant, but back then it was the home of 'Treasure Trap' - the world's first Live Action Role Play (LARP) holiday camp.
The actors were other people who were staying the week, like me. Almost all the adventure scenarios happened at the weekends, which left plenty of time for the filming. The red stains you see on some costumes are the paint used as part of the combat system there.
They were not great actors, but enthusiastic enough. For the opening shots, I told them to have an 'animated conversation'. They certainly didn't let me down.
Super-8 film was expensive, and I didn't have enough for retakes, so some bits are not what they could have been with modern cheap video tape. I told the actor actor to see if his friend was alive, and when we did the take, his method was to poke his friend with his sword. I think in a video age I'd have gone for a second take on that one.
One aspect of the cheap costumes I hated was that no one had a scabbard, so the two main characters are forced to walk around holding their swords all the time.
The music doesn't really work well with this film, I know. To get it to fit at all, I had to hack it about something rotten. I fear that the spectacular quality of the music serves to emphasise the smallness of the low-budget film. Still, better than silence, I hope.
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That music is definitely from Star Wars XD
it is. episode 5. hoth evacuation
Hehehe, the tiny guy in green with the giant axe! xD
Went back to the castle, now a posh hotel, a few years ago. If you go into the 'staff only' corridors you can still see the paint we used on weapons where it's soaked into the sandstone of the walls. Felt strangely satisfying that all that money and airbrushing couldn't completely completely erase the traces of a load of geeky oiks.
Someone needs to make a video review of this nitpicking the costumes, sets, and fighting techniques. lol
At least he didn't have torches on the walls.
Things I recall about that holiday with you lot:
Shouting "Chameleon!" and jumping about a lot. Singing the Robin Hood theme in strong Ulster accents, cleaning paint off the walls, watching First Blood in the pub, one of you lot jammed into his single sleeping bag with his girlfriend, making a mess for no reason in a local town, having nowhere to wash.
Whoever wears the helmet owns the helmet. I was disappointed that he didn't wear his really good cloak, but he said that his cloak was elven and that elves were good.
I must voice my approval for the music choice.
"A long time ago and in a castle far far away". I wonder how many of the guys in this have as many grey hairs as me now!
Still a better story than Twi...ah fuck it.
Well this brought back a few memories. Apparently the Castle is a swanky hotel and wedding venue now.
The Orc helmets bring back many good memories - thanks for sharing.
Loads of bits chopped out of music from Episode V.
I remember those days of my youth so well. Good work.
Aaaaah, takes me back to the days of longing, gazing for hours at the ad in WD, wondering how long it would take to walk the 500 miles just to larp there.....
Wow just found this , I used to go to Treasure Trap , must have been early eighties , what a great place , I remember Blue peter filmed an episode there , at the time it looked like it was going to be quite popular but if I remember correctly the people running took their eye off the ball and it died out
Weekends there were great fun and some times it was packed with people and for a single guy in his latest teens a pleasingly large amount of the fairer sex ;-)
What a great backdrop on many of these scenes!
Huh. I didn't know you could record videos with a bologna sandwich
Star Wars by a maniac.
john smith So the prequels.
We all used to go camping at Beeston most summers, and pitch our tents (somewhat illicitly) next to the haunted well. We would explore Peckforton too when it was derelict and you could find the odd sponge sword or two in the dingy interiors.
brilliant - brings it all back
Oh wow - I wasn't on the film but I certainly spent many a weekend (and at least one whole week at Peckforton back in the mid 80s). Thanks for bringing back the memories.
Obviously we didn't use dye during the filming, but you can see traces of it on the weapons.
Brilliant. I'm so happy to have seen this after all this time. Shame I get killed at the end! I can still sing the Robin Hood theme in an Ulster accent though...
Whoops! No, the helmet belonged to a bigger guy - the guy who played the last orc to get killed, I think.
i like the denim look.
good work.
epic!
i thought the music filled in the bits quite nicely very dramatic chase
That's really clever.
A friend of mine named Karl was there but I don't think he was in this video. How I would have loved to participate in it, or even see the place now, but I live in the US.
The music really is quite good. Sometimes a bit much for the scene, but fits very well within itself. Really feels like an old silent film with an accompanying dramatic piano score. Great job, Lloyd!
Dat Star Wars.
Memedroider?
Hi, when you were at Peckforton Castle do you remember a Minstrel which played a Lute? The minstrel was an automaton and was in the great Hall. I've searched all over the Internet for a photograph of it but can't find anything at all.
Wow.... this really brings back memories. I posted the link to a couple of other old TT'ers. The Orc masks... I was talking about those the other day with a friend. Well... in the moirning I'm off of a "Saga" with Heart of Pargon and then Mothering a "Myths" with Labyrinthe. Both are 6 day events. Laby still uses a system that old TT'ers would recognise... but it has evolved HUGELY. Try "Labyrinthe LRP" of "Primal Forge" on your search engines. Wow... only 30 characters left to use... Bye
this is really good. :)
Is the music Star Wars? Feels really familiar.
woah a young loyd
Are there any other short films like this one and "Crossing the Runes" ?
Is that dave and alistair i see as the heros .The silver helm was mine i think but thats not fat enough to be me
Alistair? Yes, sorry, Super-8 was not an easy format for distribution. So now you're the one working in telly? The foolish BBC rejected me at several interviews.
Is that John Williams music?
+CrazayFish1 Battle of Hoth. yes.
+daneil franklin haha Very tasteful
CrazayFish1 agreed.
Personally I thought it was really good for something you produced with such few resources
I wish I could see you when you're fifteen years old.
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so sheesy that it's good...
this isn't realistic! they didn't have color! ......or audio........or film...... XD
+dc2008242 Or handrails
gus santos lol, it's been so long I don't even remember watching this