Exciting news for PaRF and renaissance faires in general...Good Morning America will be filming all this coming Oktoberfest weekend! As I understand it, they will be doing some general filming on Saturday and the personalities will be visiting on Sunday for a feature story about the renaissance faire popularity nationwide on the show during the week. I'm not sure when the actual story will be showing, but keep your eyes open for it!
How exciting! If you find out when it will air let us know!
The Good Morning America crew and Marysol were at the faire this weekend, despite our very rainy weather. No word on when it will be on the air though, apparently no air date has been set as of yet.
Some shots from their efforts this past Sunday...
(http://serendipity.zenfolio.com/img/v4/p373595369-11.jpg) (http://serendipity.zenfolio.com/parf2k9-oktoberfest/e16449ce9)
Marysol on the Chess Board
(http://serendipity.zenfolio.com/img/v4/p378487977-11.jpg) (http://serendipity.zenfolio.com/parf2k9-oktoberfest/e168f44a9)
Filming the Queen
(http://serendipity.zenfolio.com/img/v4/p349511991-11.jpg) (http://serendipity.zenfolio.com/parf2k9-oktoberfest/e14d52137)
now for a Closeup
Lots more in the album (http://serendipity.zenfolio.com/parf2k9-oktoberfest) for that weekend as well.
Excellent pics but I tried to go to the full album and it says page cannot be displayed. :(
If anyone finds out when they plan to air it, let us know. :)
Quote from: Master James on September 29, 2009, 11:43:55 AM
Excellent pics but I tried to go to the full album and it says page cannot be displayed. :(
Sorrrry about that... I screwed up the URL. I fixed them now. ;D
Very nice pics. Thanks for sharing.
any news on when this is airing colleen?? they are filiming at my other faire, kcrf, this week for a documentary titled huzzah. about the rennies and all that goes into it.
I emailed one of our marketing people today who arranged the visit about a possible airdate. She says it is supposed to be on next weekend, October 10th or 11th. I'll try to let you know if I hear anything different.
Thanks Colleen. I was wandering the same thing as well (when they were going to air the story). I will try to catch it if I am not working that day.
So, it was apparently not on last weekend but Scott (the faire owner) has said on his Twitter page and on the faire's Facebook page that it will be on tomorrow, October 17th. Hopefully it makes it this time around!
i did not get to see it
You didn't miss anything...it apparently got bumped again. Too much coverage of the silver balloon thing I suppose. Oh well, hopefully it'll make it on air sometime!
Hey - I just finished watching today's GMA Weekend show and figured there'd probably be a thread about it here. Grats to the PARF folks for the attention. And grats to Darklord for making the national news - they had a full waist-up shot of him on for several seconds!
I love GMA Weekend.
For those who didn't get to see it, there's a text article with a photo gallery here (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/pennsylvania-renaissance-fair/story?id=8899700), and the video of the segment is here (http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8910397).
Thanks for posting the links already and sorry I didn't get to give everyone more notice - I only found out it was airing on Saturday and seeing as they've said that several times before...
Hopefully, this will do good things for all of our faires next season!
Quote from: Colleen McGuinness on October 26, 2009, 05:28:27 AM
Thanks for posting the links already and sorry I didn't get to give everyone more notice - I only found out it was airing on Saturday and seeing as they've said that several times before...
Hopefully, this will do good things for all of our faires next season!
it was very flattering for PARF and faires in general. too often those spots make us all look like a bunch of patchouli wearing, non bathing hippies. this made it look really great ( WHICH IT IS!!! ) so it was an incredible spot, you guys should be happy, you did a tremendous job. way to go!
The segment aired this past weekend...
Here's the link on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeEUr12ax6w&feature=fvsr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeEUr12ax6w&feature=fvsr)
Great segment.! :)
I recognised a few faces. Darklord there standing watching the joust, and our lovely Colleen looking splendid in her gown being interviewed by the GMA host. Great job everyone.
Gee I've been trying to comment for a couple of hours. My computer died (Murphy's law) and I couldn't figure out what my password was to use on an alternative machine!
What appeared to be a close-up on me had to have been shot from 60 yards away. That's about as near as I ever got to the camera. They must have a steady tripod.
Awesome segment. Sorry I didn't get to see it when it actually aired on TV.