On location with Epica ("Skogen")

In late April, Epica had a medieval workshop, just to practice on action sequences. Of course we could have done it all in our regular clothes, but where's the fun in that? Our love for history and fantasy won over and the workshop got medieval inspired. After all, bows and swords are a whole lot cooler than guns.

Beautiful archer, deadly aim!  (photo: frame grab)

More after the jump. 

The beautiful Marie Therese as the archer. All costumes were made within 50 hours, a lot of short cuts had to be made. (photo: John Christian Fjellestad)

Simen, playing the prisoner, also doing some co-directing. Shirt muddied up for a more realistic look. (photo: John Christian Fjellestad)

The warder with his prisoner. Barefoot in the forest in April, not such a good idea... (photo: John Christian Fjellestad)

Lars as the the warder. (photo: John Christian Fjellestad)

The crew on location. As it was raining all day, the shoot moved very slowly. Every scene change was a huge job to keep the equipment dry. The result of the wet day ended with just half of the scenes planned being shot. (photo: John Christian Fjellestad)

After a rather cold and wet day in the local forest, the crew were able to wrap the workshop halfway through the planned scenes. As it became quite obvious early on that all scenes couldn't be done that day, the crew shot the scenes needed to make a coherent sequence.

Project "Skogen" is planned to continue spring 2013. Script for the following story is being written in these days.