Dear viewers. The other day I remembered that sometime a long time ago, I posted the Battle of Stäket video on RU-vid. I can't remember the thinking behind putting it there, maybe someone wanted all involved associates to see it. Anyway, imagine my surprise when it had almost 300K views. And as I'm writing this, it has reached 355K.
The film was produced by Christian Arnet and Svea Television, commissioned by the battle field museum 'Hamn' (that's 'harbour' in Swedish). It is projected on to an almost 180° screen in a circular room by three overlapping projectors, and the idea was to let the audience have some small feeling for what it might have been like to take part in the Battle of Staket 1719.
The battle field museum is located in the Stockholm archipelago, almost exactly one nautical mile from where the fighting took place and as for the actual events during those days in July of 1719, a good place to start if you want to find out more is the Wikipedia article (if you can't visit the museum in Fisksätra yourself of course).
I will only mention that this is the closest any Russian force ever got to the Swedish capitol, and it is doubtful whether they actually wanted to push for Stockholm, had they won the battle. The events at Stäket was part of an operation more designed to force the peace negotiations between Sweden and Russia in Russian favour, rather than actually being an invasion.
The action scenes were shot during one day in June 2013. I used a Canon 5DMkII on a shoulder rig and (as I recall) mainly three lenses, the Canon 24-105, a Sigma 300 and a Sigma fisheye. Post production was done in fcpx, Motion, and I also made some use of blender 3D, I think. Live pyrotechnics by Bo Knarrström and props by Uniform Collection - that is, all garment and utensils that wasn't supplied by the reenactors themselves.
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12 авг 2014
