"Tree of the Valkyrie" (short film)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- In the tradition of the Icelandic Sagas, this student short film tells the story of Bjorn Thorgeirson, a young Norseman seeking to win honor and glory by the edge of his sword.
This film is at times a brawling, swashbuckling, swordfight epic, and at others explores the Nordic warrior culture. I tried to make this film visually beautiful in terms of locations and cinematography, as well as unflinchingly brutal. In the end I hope it is merely entertaining.
This was my senior thesis project at Grand Valley State University. It was shot entirely in West Michigan, with the major of locations actually on the university's campus in an area adjecent to the Grand River known as "The Ravines" by Grand Valley students.
Everyone involved in the project put many long cold hours into this, and the cast and crew members who worked through blizzards and the remote Michigan wilderness are Vikings in their own right, and receive my highest appreciation and praise.
Starring: Zander Riggs, John Carlin, and Luke Tresnak.
Crew: Ryan Smith, Emily Hengstebeck, Graham Koroleski, Alex Robertson, Alex Keson, Jake Bowen
Music by Devin Polaski
Fight Choreography by Phil Baumhardt and John Carlin
Written, Directed, Produced, and Edited by Phil Baumhardt
Shot on the Canon XH-A1. Edited with Final Cut Pro.
On historical looking Scandinavian people you get an F - ...Mexican Asian no bearded type is not historical.
..and blades with round tips aren´t either :) ...and the axe from the construction store is also not really norse ... but their american english is excellent :) ..Don´t be too harsh to them, Einar :)
Tell that to the history channel. His fight scenes are more authentic than that portrayed by Hollywood.
@MiWilderness Thanks! It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun. It is an experience I will never forget.
I enjoyed this film. My one hope is to join my ancestors in the great hall.
I thought I heard a jet passing by in one of your scenes, and the axe looked nothing like I would expect an axe from 1000 years ago to look. I would have liked the woodsman to have been older, and when first introduced, he should have been swinging that axe more like he intended to cut through that branch before sometime in the next week.
Excuse me, make that woodcutter, not, "woodsman."
Nice work! We just finished filming in the snow in Mass. Crazy how much work is added by just a few inches of snow.
This was brilliant :) Thank you
Id like to borrow your axe
**misses first strike drop it and forget about it**
And the woodcutter needed his axe for his livelihood …
An entertaining film. I would have liked to have seen the protagonist become the next berserker and stay in the woods. Failing that, I hope he gave the woodcutter his axe.
Very entertaining short. Aside from any criticism i liked your film very much. Cool storyline. Aloha from Hawaii.
Shame you don"t know trees ,not an oak but a hemlock but being a student continue learning not indoctrination (a common fact ) in so called education!/Ed
Awesome!
Glad ya liked it!
Read up on it, and aquire tools/materials when they present themselves. It took me a couple years to get everything together before I finally tried it. You'll learn a lot by experience.
That was very nice. I'm taking intro digital videography right now, so I can only guess how much work must have went into making that film.
Thanks for sharing,
Roosevelt
The woodcutter sounds Canadian.
Nice Narrative! Great fight! I enjoyed watching your movie!
So great to hear, thank you for watching!
I know I am 10 yrs. late. But I am a novice medieval historian. I am also a Great-grandson of Rollo and Alfred the great. I am also a fellow Michigander I recently discovered your channel really, enjoy your way of Bladesmithing. You turn out wonderfully accurate pieces. I did not know you create short films, but I find them to be very well done and the fight scenes for that matter are very well done.
Thanks dude, a lot of work went into it. Thanks for watching and checking out the channel!
@@PhilBaumhardt Sure man, I have been watching some of your older uploads to get caught up. Keep up the great work an inspiration to getting me started into it this spring. I cannot not say that about some of the more technical Stock removal or power hammer guys.
I loke the short films ...good story lines
Thanks William, that's cool that you found this old film of mine. Glad you enjoyed it!
Watching this from Trondheim ✌
Fantastic! Thanks for watching!
I love your blacksmithing videos too, i'm thinking of starting to do some hobby smithing aswell, got any beginners tips?
Awesome film for 2012. Keep up the awesome filming.
Like it. I also liked the homage paid to Red Green, LOL!
@Blackhardt72 It was a cold but rather fun shot! Thanks for having me on it!
You guys listened too to much Amon Amarth ;-)
Brilliant... Biggest thing of complaint though... Ketil's stupid accent / voice. Otherwise, Awesome
Glad you liked it! I appreciate the constructive criticism as well.
Excellent video. Everything about it was great. The location, the new falling snow, the action scenes. Everything except that I wanted the blond warrior to be victorious.
Yeah but he ultimately got what he wanted xD
Thanks for watching, I appreciate the praise! You're too kind lol
The actors deserve it though, they were pretty miserable by the end of shooting.
Great fight scene. Well done
REALLY well done.
What was that Norse word the woodcutter described the outlaw as? The one that translates as "forest-walker" ??
"Skogarmathur" I believe is the word used in the film. I got that from the glossary of a Saga of the Icelanders translation. Literally the translation is "forest-man", but the sentence of outlawry (skoggangur) translates to "forest-walking". I guess forest-walker was too cool to pass up for me.
Phil Baumhardt
Very cool. Well done!😉
koszmar ....
@4:20, I've never heard that term before. Where did you get that from?
Its an Icelandic word that literally translates as "forest man"