Zarber vs Erc Practice 5

VIDEO ONE: 5/9/2007 - Two days' practice after eight month hiatus.
MOVE COUNT: 71

The concept for this fight came up as our trip to ConnectiCon 2006 was fast approaching. I suggested that it would be cool to perform a lightsaber fight live at the convention. Eric was all for it. The convention gave us the opportunity to display our saber skills in front of large groups of our fellow nerds. With less than two weeks 'till the convention we began to scramble to think up and practice complex and entertaining fight choreography. With Eric's handcrafted lightsabers in hand, we started practicing day and night, through rain and shine, with the hopes that people would look at us and say, "Wow, those guys can kick some ass".

Unfortunately it turned out that according to Connecticut state laws a dowel rod is apparently a weapon; after being politely declined by the people running the convention, the fight was canceled. Flash forward to spring 2007, when the practice picks up again. We felt it would be a shame for all of our hard work to be for naught, and so it was agreed that the fight would be re-imagined (and significantly lengthened) for use in a saber-fight Fan Film. To that end both another combatant and a double-saber have been added (if not yet successfully integrated).

These video clips chronicle each of the major phases of this fight's conception.

Please keep in mind that this fight was originally designed to be performed live. This means the combatants would not have the privilege of quick cuts, computer processed special effects, or any other type of trick photography. We needed to be able to perform the fight in its entirety in a single take. Starting with the fifth video, this begins to change. But for the most part, everything is very real.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• lightsaber
• choreography
• zarber
• erc

[Teamrat]

keep it up guys. cant wait to see it in full