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MEDIA SERVICES

Media Services for TV & Film

Media Services, Consultancy, Management, Acting/ Extra Involvement, Personnel and Props. Black Knight is the go-to company to help your project along towards ‘it’s a wrap!’, editing and distribution.

Please get in touch to see how we can assist in bringing your vision to the screen! Here are some of the Media Services we have delivered over the years to some quite special clients indeed.

Since 2003, we have been chosen by many TV producers and documentary makers to assist with their projects and deliver a wide variety of actors, extras, wardrobe, location, advice, armourers and fight scenes covering the last 4000 years of our history.

Most recently we supplied 21 St George knights in armour at Wembley Stadium for the Tyson Fury Ring Walkout, contracted by BT Sport, on 23 April 2022. Seen by 95,000 in the Stadium and Millions worldwide.

  • https://youtube.com/shorts/9EL8Nvxg6Zo?si=j2g5Wz32_CP0sNS1

One of the career highlights was being filmed on set with those delighteful Geordie lads, Ant & Dec.  This was for Saturday ‘K’night Takeaway mini series ‘ The Honoured’ and featured some very famous faces from TV, including Noel Edmonds, a celebrity line-up including Joanna Lumley, Michael Sheen,David Walliams (all OBEs) and Emilia Fox, amongst others.  Here’s your’s truly getting his incognito ‘bop on the head’

  • https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxNA6ldOfgKx6Yh_gCEm6VVHSwQKFWGLNL?si=vIITot4nsNCuotyy

and a link to the series:

  • Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway ITV March 2018  [Supply of Medieval Knights]

Another famous name from the film world got in touch, namely Pearl & Dean,  the greatest name in cinema advertising!  See link below for our Media Services seen in cinemas across the world:

  • World War 1 soldiers in action for Pearl & Dean ‘Back of the Head’ feature

And many more below, from small productions to International Christmas Day specials.

  • Travel Channel ‘ Expedition Unknown’ – Lost Treasure of King John
  • Murder of St. Thomas a Becket; reconstruction at Canterbury Cathedral & Dover castle for Channel 5 ‘Great British Castles’
  • C4 Time Team Specials ‘Bronze Age Mummies’ episode 2014
  • NBC International Xmas Special on Washington Irving at Aston Hall, Dec 2013 [see photo above]
  • ‘Tankies’ -A BBC Documentary on Tanks in WW2
  • The Horned God  – Armourer services [18th C firearms]
  • A Media Projects East / Heritage Lottery Fund supported project on Norfolk Ghosts & Legends, entitled ‘Mardling from Coast to Broad’ with 200 children involved in all aspects of the project.
  • An educational program for the BBC on the history of markets, with a medieval market scene in Norwich.
  • An interview with Ruth Goodman on the badly misunderstood aspect of medieval bathing and hygiene for ‘The One Show’ on BBC.
  • Reconstructions filmed for Danish media company ‘Kvorning’ showing 1940 Operation Dynamo events not recorded on film at the time. For English Heritage Wartime Tunnels Interpretation at Dover Castle.
  • Secret Wartime Tunnels, Dover Castle for Operation Dynamo 70th anniversary Interpretation film.
  • Black Knight was also involved in a mini-series on Georgian and Regency cuisine for the CookIt! culinary portal.
  • Colossus 70th anniversary National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park.
  • Walking the Boudica way Educational project for Index for Inclusion

  • Media Services Model, Photography, Knights, Lighting
    Unusual model at the Photography Show!
  • Media Services  Regency -Era characters for NBC International Xmas Special
    NBC International TV Xmas Special
  • Media Services for Pearl & Dean
    Filming for Pearl & Dean 'Back of the Head'
  • Media Services  Extras, costumes, props, wardrobe, location
    Filming for BBC
  • Media Services for Saturday Night Takeaway ITV
    Ant & Dec's Saturday 'K'night Takeaway
  • Media Services supplied to Britains Lost Battlefields
    'Britains Lost Battlefields'
  • Media Services supplied to Expedition Unknown - the Travel Channel
    Travel Channel - Expedition Unknown: Lost Treasure of King John
  • Media Services supplied to The Horned God - Armourer Services [18th c Muskets]
    Armourer services for 'The Horned God'
  • Media Services supplied to 'Great British Castles'
    Filming for 'Great British Castles'
  • Media Services British Redcoat Soldiers of 1812
    Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars being filmed for HistoryClipz channel on Pond5.com

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Sir Thomas Erpingham
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Modelling at The Photography Show media services
Knight in Armour provided to Tom Barnes Photography for Seminar at The Photography Show at the NEC, Birmingham.

 

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