Behold the most unhinged game of Rap About It that ever I've had the honour to record:
Pls go follow Off the Cuff on Instagram and maybe even TikTok. They're now an independent act, so also email PARF and tell them to bring them back. (Heck, email all the other Faires and Fests you attend and tell them to bring on Off the Cuff. Let's get these glorious and beloved madlads everywhere.)
The real reason I started by posting my early Halloween videos was so I could share this spoiler-heavy clip as soon as possible. For those who were at the Final Finale, it is the exact moment you think it is.
As I explain in the description, the quality of this clip is lesser than my current norm. During the Final Finales, I endeavor to move or mess with the camera as little as possible. However, I had been hoping for this moment since the second day, and strongly suspected it might happen. So out came the auxiliary / backup camera, the old one with which I filmed 2017.
I've also gathered all the recordings of this moment by others I could find, as well as made a full five other versions of this moment from my own footage (there were double-camera shenanigans). All are below the cut, out of pity to anyone just tryna scroll by.
Other people's recordings of this moment.
● Renaissance Road Trips (fun fact, you can see my double-camera setup at 6:22):
● Ren Faire with Rose:
● Ren Faire with Rose, just the kiss:
Other options derived from my own recordings.
● Closeup, cut, better audio:
And that's a wrap for the 2024 season! For my part, I enjoyed the hell out of the season and did not end it with closure (through no fault of my own, for once). The only reason I'm not in a rotten headspace about the lack of closure is reflected in my choice of phrasing for the opening of this post: the sheer amount of footage I captured this year and the anticipation of finally getting to sink my teeth into it, putting together that cinematic edit I've been dreaming about since 2017.
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.
As a compromise, I've begun posting individual one-off numbers from Finales in Song to the PARF-fan Highlights youtube channel. If there are any particular moments you would like access to sooner, message me and I'll toss 'em up there. I recorded every single Finale from the Saturday of Viking Weekend through the end of the season, with the exception of both days of Wizarding Weekend (as I was ill at the time, no I will not stop being salty about that). I also have the Saturday Finale of Pyrates' Invasion; as well as Off The Cuff on 9/21, 9/29, 10/6, 10/12, 10/19, 10/20, and 10/27; and Whose Jest from 9/21 and 10/13. (For that matter, I have the 2023 Finales from 9/30, 10/1, 10/14, and 10/22; and 2023 Off The Cuff from 10/1 and 10/22; and 2023 Boarshead Brawl with its multiple endings from 9/16, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8, 10/14, 10/15, 10/21, 10/22, 10/28, and 10/29; and I'd have more if I'd realized sooner that the ending changed daily rather than weekly, and also if it hadn't rained so blessed much.)
do you have any footage of the “bring on the men” number with felicity and the sirens from 2025?
I deeply cry thy pardon for delaying this answer. I have no good excuse, only the reason of not wanting to take the time from my other creative endeavors (and household upkeep and similar grown-ass adult responsibilities). Yes, I do, and here it is.
(I wonder why the lighting at Globe preclude the area where people actually perform. I'm all for ensuring the monarchs are always illuminated, and I'll never complain about being able to discern other actors' reactions to things: but it's more important to be able to actually see the active performers.)
