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- From: JJuggle <JJuggle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:37:15 -0500
EXTREME FILM TAKES YOUTUBE BY STORM
South Lakes Citizen
445 words
15 May 2007
Newsquest Media Group Newspapers
English
© Copyright 2007 Newsquest Digital Media.
No Cycling's father-son unicycle team of Simon and Aaron Rolph are
suprised by popularity.
A MOVIE featuring the lesser-known sport of extreme unicycling - which
was made for the Kendal Mountain Film Festival - has become an
unexpected Internet hit.
'No Cycling' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMVYixKzQSs) follows
Cumbrian father and son team Simon and Aaron Rolph as they race down
Lakeland mountain tracks on unicycles, performing daredevil tricks and
jumps as they make their high-speed descent.
The film was made by Manchester-based company Chateau Productions for
last year's Kendal Film Festival and, thanks to popular video-
sharing website YouTube it has reached a massive new audience and has
been watched by more than 460,000 people.
Mr Rolph junior, who is 18 and lives near Carlisle, said he had been
taken by surprise at how popular the film had become.
"I didn't realise it had been put on YouTube but it is great that
people have picked up on it," said Mr Rolph.
"I started juggling a long time ago and then I bought a unicycle. I am
also into outdoor sports such as mountain biking so I thought it would
be a good idea to combine the two. It was difficult to learn from the
beginning but once you get into it is really good fun.
"We have been down mountains such as Helvellyn and Skiddaw and
thankfully have had no major mishaps or broken bones as yet," he
added.
Rob Hewson of Chateau Productions said the film had been "challenging
but good fun" to shoot.
"It was our first ever film which we made as part of a BBC film school
course and was specifically for the Extreme Film School part of the
Kendal Mountain Festivals," said Mr Hewson.
"I think one of the reasons it has taken off is the unusual aspect of
extreme unicycling. I don't think many people will have heard of it
before and it tends to be the weird and wonderful sort of things that
catch on, on YouTube."
Director of the Extreme Film School and leading adventure film maker
Brian Hall said he was delighted No Cycling had become an overnight
success.
"The success of YouTube provides a valuable medium for film makers to
get their work to a wider audience and many other Extreme Film School
shorts are on there and doing very well," said Mr Hall.
"It is also good for Kendal and the Lake District as one of the
stipulations of the Extreme Film School is that films are shot within a
15-mile radius of Kendal."
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JJuggle
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Saturday, June 2, 2007
Emma, would you turn that up please. I can hear myself think.
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