It's finally done!. RAG-TAG in Tales of a Broken Reality

After months of preparation it finally happened. Two weekends in a row we recorded the footage for Tales of a Broken Reality. The Webserie directed by Bryan Oliver. These scene were recorded by Omar Salem and Natalie Kruijen, who has also the Co-Writer and Director. That leaves me as Co-Writer, Actor, Extra and Producer(?). Mickey Knox also came out from retirement for a moment to help us on  set but also made some props for us!

This was the first time me and RAG-TAG have done recordings on this scale. RAG-TAG has been involved in a number of video and photo-productions. But this is the first time we have done the physical recordings from start to finish. (The original story and final edit are with Bryan Oliver). It is very possible we are going to make a second episode for this webseries, however it is our hope RAG-TAG get's the opportunity make some original video's as well to tell the tales of the 113th RAG-TAG and +Radio Retrofuture .


So was it a success?  For me, I won't know until the final result, but for a learning experience, yes. First of all. I didn't know I could pull it off. But I did, and learned some things about organizing such things. So it might go more a little more smoothly in the future.
The voluntary nature if the project is the biggest issue. But fortunately there were no last minute cancellations of the people that I expected to be there, what was my biggest worry. The weather was cold, but could be a hell of a lot worse and spirits were high (something I also worried about), despite half the people barely knew each other or haven't worked together before. But we had a blast and hope to do something like this in the future again. It is the best I could hope for. Even if the result isn't what we had hoped, at least we have a group of people we can count on to make the next one a success.

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Special thanks to all involved
Natalie Kruijen (Director, Camera, Co-writer, Makeup)
Omar Salem (Camera)
Manuel Schiesser (Ludwig)
Bart Houtman (Defector)
Lindy van den Bosch (Em, Makeup)
William Rutgrink (Set, Royal Guard)
Mickey Knox (Props, Sound)
Patricia Copier (Royal Guard, Catering)
Jette Dolman (Number of  (dead) Carnies)
Hannelore Kuperus (Carnie)
Klaas van der Vijgh (Props, Carnie)
Niels Dijkstra (Props, Royal Guard)
Anna Moss (Photography)

and me I suppose (Producer, Co-Writer, Props)

Special thanks to
Jasper Willemeen
Bryan Oliver for giving us this oppurtunity
De Ruine van Teylingen for the use of their location
Theresia Waalderbos and the people at Leef! for the props and costumes.

And all other people that supported us in one way or another. Keep being awesome!