The Monarchy will be available on July 1st, 2009.
$ 29.95 if bought from this site.  Send an email to:
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Summary:
The Monarchy is a 9 song, 9 video rock music documentary DVD about the history of the British Monarchy.   All of the videos focus on a certain King or Queen even if the title concerns another person.

“The Monarchy’s” Story:
In 2000, my grandmother passed away. Going through her belongings, I found an illustrated book I gave her years before about Britain’s Monarchy.  One evening I began looking through it and quickly became facinated with the upsurpings, betrayals, murders, well meanings, and absolute greatness of some of these people.

  I was hooked.  I was given or bought many books, read for years, and became somewhat of an expert on the subject.   There were already a couple of songs in my head before finishing “Medieval Scores” when I came up with the structure that was to ultimately become “Henry VI.”  I was humoring myself singing “Henry VI No Longer Lives,” thinking it was funny.  As time when by, I couldn’t come up with any other lyric for the chorus of that song.  I guess, I didn’t want another lyric.  From then on, all subsequent songs revolved around the Monarchy. The whole project was to just be another CD though it was not until the near the end when it somehow occured to me to create corresponding videos, something I never did.

  I took a course and bought “Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2,” a very powerful digital video application that was used in countless major motion pictures.  This, along with a digital camcorder at KStudios in Orlando, Florida USA, The Monarchy was shot and edited. “Empress of India” was the first one and if you notice, there’s not too much video in it...mostly clips that I manipulated as I become more familiar with Final Cut. Initially, the DVD was shot in it’s entiretly in standard definition.  When I played it back on a high definition TV, I was horrified that it looked horrible so over the course of another year, I re-shot all of the video over in high definition. Much better!

All in all, I estimate “The Monarchy” took five years and thousands of hours to complete.  Though you will find this impossible to believe, it was NEVER made with the thought of sales and making money. None of my projects had that in mind What it is; is my heart, soul, and time and the unimaginable reward received from creating something from scratch.

I hope you like it. I can’t image I’ll have the time or the fortitude to take on something else such as this.

Rich Kaynan
June 21st, 2009.