Maine Academy of Staged Combat Falmouth HS Fight Week Richard III

This was BROADSWORD day at the MASC Falmouth High School Fight Week. This is all less than 5 hours from the first time they ever held a broadsword to the taping of this (altered) scene from RICHARD III (The Battle of Bodsworth Field). Some of the fighting is pretty fair for a workshop setting... but again... the point of this posting is NOT to show great staged combat. Instead, it is to show how with even just a few hours of training, 13 and 14 year olds can be SAFE swinging blunted steel at each other. Had these young actors had more time to train with Fight Director Mark Bedell, they would have been fighting at performance level in only a month or two! Oh and... Fight Director Mark Bedell edited this with some free software... he should stay a Fight Director and leave the editing to Michael Waye.
www.Fight-Director.org.

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[ghost811]

Wow,great action!!!

Thanks a million!!!

[1stAmendmentguy]

They need to apply the same acting energy they have for the fight to the lines. I'll bet it was fun though.