Hi all,

Haven't posted here in a long while (minus a small spam annoyance a short while ago).

Seeing as I live literally 5 mins round the corner from Epic Studios (the old Anglia Studios - Studio E where Knightmare was filmed), I thought I'd provide a quick update on the area and of an odd, but very welcome event that happened there.

Firstly, Epic Studios is still there. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Anglia Square adjacent to it, which is being torn down to be redeveloped into new housing / retail / community space. Only two buildings remain that should soon be demolished including Sovereign House, former location of Her Majesty's Stationary Office many moons ago.

Secondly, Dominik Diamond - the legendary host of the classic 90's video game TV show GamesMaster (of which I was a HUGE fan) was convinced fairly recently to come down to Epic Studios and do a sort of unofficial episode of GamesMaster, including video game challenges, as well as comedy and GM nostalgia - all hosted by the man himself; all this was quite strange seeing as Dominik has lived in Canada for some years now so for him to pop down to Norwich of all places, and 5 mins up the road from me, was just incredibly fortuitous!

I managed to sign up to the only challenge slot left - a Smash Bros 64 challenge (DD wanted to include challenges that never made to air that he wanted to see), which I lost badly, but I didn't care - I was over the moon being verbally eviscerated by the man himself, who was known for his merciless scorn and banter. Sometimes life throws some real oddballs at you and this is something I never expected - to be a GM contestant (sort of), hosted by Dominik himself, many many years after the show was cancelled.

Anyway, I thought that was worth sharing with everyone.

— Gamesmas...I mean Dominik Diamond's Retro Rumble!

— Anglia Square....is not still there.

— Epic Studios - it's still there!

They've had their account deleted.

I've also changed the permissions for Newly Registered Users so that they now cannot send private messages. I always wanted to avoid doing that, but I don't really see an alternative.

Many thanks Mystara, much appreciated. I got spammed something like 5 times in one day!

Hi,

Is anyone getting spammed with messages about this?

The last one came from a user called 'Marythisk'. This person only joined Monday 17th August 2026 so I can only assume this isn't any approved message from any forum admin. How do I report / block this person? I cannot see any option on their profile to do any such thing. Apparently I can add them as a foe, but I'm not sure what this will block them.

Thanks,

Forgot to mention, I ended up posting the Knightmare on DVD campaign video to Youtube (back when the old KM website design was still around):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjTY_paQJu0&feature=channel_video_title

It's had 565 views in about two years.

Hope it helps.

Hi BBrooks

Just letting ya know, I'm still here and I haven't forgotten about our unique brand of Knightmare. I'm just busy getting end of semester things done. I'd imagine I'll have a bit more time come Christmas / new year.

I'm doing my collaborative write-up on a job I did over the summer so we can pretty much go where we want with this thing. I'd still like to get on board someone with good photoshop skills to extract character stills. Or pretty much someone with a graphics tablet, coz that'll make the job a fair bit easier.

Anyway, good ideas so far. I'll be in touch.

Paul

if a group of voice actors could get together, that would obviously be ideal. However, although a little difficult, any voice work could be scripted, recorded separately and then synced together.

Thanks anyway. I'm sure we'll find a way around it.

Thanks for the suggestions BBrooks. For the moment I'm going to have to go with another project for collaboration as no one else has been forthcoming with this one thus far. I know from previous discussions with my unit co-ordinator that he would not accept the collaboration as it is right now.

However, I don't intend for this thing to just die as I think an animated Knightmare parody has real potential. Obviously, I cannot prioritise this project at the moment but I'll post back when I can with more stuff (Iand I promise to watch some of the goodies stuff).

Thanks

Hi all

Please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjTY_paQJu0 to see the vid.

Hope you all like it. Mystera, I tried to keep to your brief as much as possible but suggestions always welcome.

Spread the good word and I hope this helps the cause.

pgoomba

BTW, as far as Copyright is concerned, we could probably get away with 'fair use' if it was taken from the master copies; however, any footage will probably be ripped from whatever's on youtube, which would have been ripped from a TV showing, so it might be contentious but what can we do? We've got no original master footage.

Thanks for the reply BBrooks

I would have replied sooner but obviously the board was down for the weekend. I've had a think about a few ideas and some dialogue so let me run some of this stuff past you

I think maybe doing a shortened version of a whole episode, probably without the intro sequence mainly because I can't think of anything to do with that at the moment.

One scene could include the dungeoneer walking into a bomb room. The team start to talk about the room and they get a bit caught up in the asthaetics of the place - "You're in a bomb room. There's one exit ahead of you. The floor consists of nice grey tiles that would like great in my kitchen........" and so on and so on (I'm imagining a Scouse and a Welshman as two of the advisers for some reason). Eventually, the dungeoneer says "erm.....you said something about a bomb". The guys then quickly rush to get him out of there - "oh yeah, erm..........LEG IT!!!!". We could then follow it up with a half time show of sorts. Maybe as the dungeoneer leaves the bomb room, one of the jesters (lets say motley) runs in from another door and treats us to some of his usual joviality. However, he is blissfully unaware until the last second that the fuse is wearing out - BOOOOOM!

Could have a wall monster riddle session - with extra tough questions which leave the team thinking WTF?!!! The team then get punished Mortal Kombat style in the next room for getting maybe only 1 question right (and they probably got a lucky guess on that one). I'd say the dungeoneer gets dicapitated by a giant swinging pendulum axe thingy, with blood flying everywhere.

One scene could have a team end up in Merlin's room. The old geezer starts jabbering on for ages and a message comes up saying something like "if you want to take a coffee break, go right ahead coz this is gonna take a while". Maybe Merlin could give the player some bizarre spell, like 'FART'' or something.

As far as style and themes go, I mentioned before about Monty Python, but for comedy style also check out Metal Gear Awesome http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/297383 and Jimboloony http://www.youtube.com//jimboloony321. Better switch on that profanity filter though. lol

That's the ideas I've got for the moment. I've gotta say, I'm quite enjoying the prospect of doing this, but for my unit co-ordinator to accept this collaboration, I think we'd definetely need more collaborators. I can do some animated effects and movement of characters in After Effects, but as for lifting some of the chracters from still shots from the show, I think a specialist in Photoshop would definetely come in handy here. So please, if anyone is interested by all means chip in. It's looking pretty good on paper at the mo.

Thanks

Paul

I'm putting together a promo vid for KM DVD, going on the specs Mystera has given thus far. I really like the logos you put together.

Would you mind if I used them, and if so, what name do you want me to credit you as?

Thanks

Paul

Hi all

I was wondering how many folk would be interested in doing a collaborative project with me for one of my university units.

My initial proposal for the project is as follows, though I'm more than happy to discuss alternative products:

Produce a Knightmare parody video, unlike the ones seen on Youtube at the mo. I'm thinking something along the lines of using KM footage, but as a set of stills similar to the animation you see in Monty Python. Voiceover could be used for dungeoneer and the team. I'm sure there's plenty of things we could do to mock the incompetence, dim-wittery and attitude of some of the contestants. At the moment there would be room for a script writer + other dialogue and idea contributions, director, editor, animator, sound editor. My area of expertise is video-editing, with a bit of colour-correcting, sound editing and after effects animation and very small amount of Photoshop. If I were to do this at home, I have Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and Soundbooth, all on Windows. If I were to do this at Uni, I'd be using the Final Cut Studio bundle on MAC.

Now more about my study and the unit requirements:

I'm studying Digital Film & Video at London South Bank University right now (50% film theory, 50% film creation course). The unit is only a semester long (the write-up for it has to be in on 10th December). I know that might not seem like much time, but I don't actually need to come up with an end product and even if I do, it will only be used as an appendix as far as the unit is concerned, though I'll be more than happy to finish the product and output it. What's REALLY important is that I show evidence and do a write-up on the whole collaboration process. So in other words, lot's of discussion about the product and really getting stuck into the whole process of making it. My unit co-ordinator for this project is only 50/50 on my proposal at the moment, as he is unsure that using a 'community' will work, so I really need people who are genuinely interested in helping. The only thing I think I can really offer for your services is credit on the final product, but it could be a really fun project.

If anyone's interested, please reply to this post and we'll take it from there.

Many Thanks

Paul

Mystara, I'm one of the "interested but silent" fans you mentioned earlier. I'm now more than happy to break that silence in hopes of seeing Knightmare on DVD.

I'd definetely be interested. If the episodes were cheap enough at first I wouldn't mind downloading, though I'd MUCH rather shell out significantly more money on a proper DVD set. I'd be happy to pay around £15 per series. At some point, if I can get hold of some KM footage, I'll try and throw together an awareness video and throw it on youtube. Hopefuly, at least some of my (admittedly small) number of viewers might see it and add their two bobs worth.