#archiving parf

Saturday September 21st – Celtic Weekend

Final count: One-hundred and nineteen (119) shows. Three-hundred and twenty-three (323) gigabytes. Seventy-one hours, twenty-five minutes, and thirty-nine seconds (71:25:39) of footage.

As part of reviewing all this footage to begin work on those cinematic edits, I'll get started right away on posting the raw footage to the PARF-fan Facebook. This will not, I fear, be a swift process. It took me twenty-one days to get through the twenty-six videos from 2022, which I cared about significantly less than these.

Inspired by a comment on my update of sorts in which the commenter stated that it had never occurred to them to see if anyone had filmed PARF, I present to you a post I have been intending to make literally since starting this blog.

● Michael Ulrich – PARF footage as far back as 2004, hitting stride around 2015, stopping at the end of 2022. Most of the older stuff is scattered in amongst the 2018 footage and again between 2020 and 2021. An excellent source for a one-off example of most in-house shows each year. Quite important for reviewing the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse. Some of the highest-quality footage. ● Renaissance Road Trips (formerly known as maddog015) – PARF footage as far back as 2007. More out-of-house stuff than in-house, though they've been expanding to include a little more in-house in recent years. Contains footage from many different Faires, so sifting will be required if you are exclusively interested in PARF. Divides shows up into many pieces, which is handy if you want to reference a specific moment, but cumbersome if you want to just watch a whole show. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Home of THE Halloween Finale of 2017.

● PARF Performers (formerly known as wavking) – PARF footage from 2011 through 2021, excepting 2014 and 2020. Filming is somewhat scattered and not systematic until around 2016. Occasional videos from NJRF and from non-Faire events taking place on PARF grounds. Overall the best source for Finales and an even selection of everything else for 2016-2018, petering off in 2019. Indispensable for reviewing the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse, though less so the Mary part. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level.

● Steve Kossor – PARF footage as far back as 2013. Very little in-house stuff; mostly focused on the artists who fall under the heading of “musicians of the shire”, both individually and as a whole. Plenty of stuff from other Faires, too. Most videos are clearly labeled. If you never got to witness the actual Pub Sing from the Before Times, this is where to look, particularly 2019. Very fancy filming, often including multiple cameras at different angles on the same day (goals tbh). Occasional interviews and such. Scattered throughout are videos completely unrelated to Faire, 'cause he's gotta put 'em somewhere.

● MerlinWinchestr – PARF footage as far back as 2013. Hits stride in 2016 (I think), at which point she carefully archives one example of each main-season plotline show, and sometimes Halloween, as well as scattered highlights. Literally the only person besides me to actually bother with non-Halloween plot before 2018, for which I owe her a small portion of my soul. Indispensable for reviewing the Megan-Zach part of the Megan-Zach-Mary 'verse. Nothing from PARF in 2018 or 2019 due to moving to a different state, but filmed stuff from other Faires in the interim. Picked up again in 2020, and expanded the number of shows filmed. Recent videos are carefully labeled. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Scattered throughout are many clips from various unrelated concerts and cons and sometimes reenactment, as well as quite a lot of fandom edits of (predictably) both Merlin and Supernatural.

● Joseph Germano – PARF footage as far back as 2015. Almost entirely in-house; largely storyline, combat, improv. Initially filmed things exclusively for himself and his family, not listing the videos publicly for years. As such, the quality of camerawork can occasionally leave something to be desired (though much less, in my opinion, than he claims), hence his playlist called “MeadVision”. Filled the void left by PARF Performers's petering off, and is owed a small portion of my soul for archiving so much Disasterpiece in 2019. Footage quality is perfectly reasonable, though not professional-level. Chronology is a mere suggestion until 2021.

● PARF fan – If you're interested in 2017 plotline and combat, I've got everything I filmed up on the YouTube except for Halloween Joust and Halloween Finale. I've also got loads of raw footage of in-house stuff from the first half the 2020 season over on the Facebook. Effort is made with cinematography, though it sometimes backfires. Videos are carefully labeled, but only in the titles, not the thumbnails. Footage quality is perfectly tolerable, though far from professional-level, and the sound is sometimes bad (didn't have a fancy camera until the 2022 season). Indispensable for reviewing 2017, frankly.

● PA Renaissance Faire – PARF footage from 2018 only. One each Court, Melee, Bloody Best, some of the main-season individual Chess fights, Halloween Court, Halloween Chess, and a whole bunch of in-house songs from sundry Finales, many of which were not archived in any other form elsewhere (that I know of).

● Ren Faire with Rose – PARF footage as far back as 2018. Nigh-on exclusively in-house. Mostly highlights rather than entire shows. Features occasional streetwork, particularly from 2019, which is beyond value. Mostly chronological, but 2022 and 2023 and 2024 are intermittently jumbled. Tbh, I haven't gotten around to watching enough of their footage to comment on the quality of camera or camerawork.

PARF 2024: Boarshead Brawl (main season) Saturday August 24th – Pyrate Invasion

These links all lead to the PARF-fan Facebook, as I am unwilling to muck about with chronology on the PARF-fan YouTube, or put completely raw footage there. As it was unfair of me to sit on this footage just because it wasn't to my standards, this is my compromise. You need not be logged onto Facebook to view these.

Disasterpiece: The Moral Allegory and Fantastical Tale of the Fair Young Maiden and the Goblin King and the Confounding Maze – August 28th – Pyrate Invasion

Rakish Rogues – September 10th – Wizarding Weekend

Midday Revels – September 10th – Wizarding Weekend

Sirens and Rogues – September 10th – Wizarding Weekend

Ultimate Joust – September 10th – Wizarding Weekend

Disasterpiece – September 4th – Heroes & Villains – The Moral Allegory and Fantastical Tale of the Fair Young Maiden and the Goblin King and the Confounding Maze

The Sirens – October 2nd – Oktoberfest

Sirens and Rogues – October 2nd – Oktoberfest

Tournament of Arms – October 8th – Celtic Weekend

Ultimate Joust – October 8th – Celtic Weekend

Finale in Pub Song – October 8th – Celtic Weekend

Queen's Court – October 9th – Celtic Weekend

Boarshead Brawl – October 9th – Celtic Weekend

Tournament of Arms – October 9th – Celtic Weekend

Halloween Queen's Court – October 29th – Halloweekend III

Halloween Boarshead Brawl – October 29th – Halloweekend III

The Sirens (Halloween) – October 29th – Halloweekend III

Rakish Rogues (Halloween) – October 29th – Halloweekend III

Halloween Midday Revels – October 29th – Halloweekend III

Halloween Tournament of Arms – October 29th – Halloweekend III

Halloween Ultimate Joust – October 29th – Halloweekend III

Halloween Finale in Pub Song – October 29th – Halloweekend III

Halloween Boarshead Brawl – October 30th – Closing Day

Halloween Tournament of Arms – October 30th – Closing Day

Sirens and Rogues (Halloween) – October 30th – Closing Day

141 – Queen's Court – 10-18 – Halloween II

142 – Celtic Revels [closeups, HR] – 10-18 – Halloween II

143 – Partial Boarshead Brawl – 10-18 – Halloween II

144 – Saucy Sirens [closeups, HL] – 10-18 – Halloween II

145 – Crossroads – 10-18 – Halloween II

146 – Court of Revels [closeups, HR] – 10-18 – Halloween II

147 – Inhuman Chess – 10-18 – Halloween II

148 – Disasterpiece: vampire stuff – 10-18 – Halloween II

149 – Ultimate Joust – 10-18 – Halloween II

130 – Queen's Court – 10-12 – Halloween I

130.5 – Monty cam – 10-12 – Halloween I

131 – Throck and Buskin – 10-12 – Halloween I

132 – Two-Bard Party one-thirty set [handheld iPad] – 10-12 – Halloween I

133 – English Wrestling adder cam – 10-12 – Halloween I

134 – Two-Bard Party two-thirty set [handheld iPad] – 10-12 – Halloween I

135 – Music with Her Majesty – 10-12 – Halloween I

136 – Two-Bard Party four o'clock set [handheld iPad] – 10-12 – Halloween I

137 – Inhuman Chess – 10-12 – Halloween I

138 – Disasterpiece; vampire stuff – 10-12 – Halloween I

139 – Ultimate Joust [far HR] – 10-12 – Halloween I

120 – Queen's Court – 10-11 – Halloween I

121 – Celtic Revels – 10-11 – Halloween I

122 – Boarshead Brawl – 10-11 – Halloween I

123 – Off the Cuff – 10-11 – Halloween I

124 – English Wrestling – 10-11 – Halloween I

125 – Court of Revels – 10-11 – Halloween I

126 – Music with Her Majesty snippet – 10-11 – Halloween I

127 – Inhuman Chess – 10-11 – Halloween I

128 – Ultimate Joust – 10-11 – Halloween I