A documentary about the authors who wrote about Rübezahl, the folklore mountain spirit of the Bohemian and Silesian Giant Mountains. We’re preparing a detail shot, showing Johannes Praetorius, one of the historical authors, writing a manuscript. I take over as the hand double writing in historically correct old German Kurrent, the handwriting of those times.
Fancy an extract?
Don’t worry. The text is not only written in a historical handwriting, but also drawn up in 17th century German. So the following transcript also won’t help the German-speaking readers too much ;-)
“Darauf antwortet der [Bursch, es wird zwar wenig]
sein, doch langet er zugleich erst nach dem
Schiebesack und zeucht vom Rest etwan noch
zehen oder eilff Schoten heraus eröffnet eine
und siehet daß es nicht mehr grüne Erbsen
sondern klares gelbes Gold gewesen
welches er auch in den übrigen ertappet
alles miteinander verwahret ungeachtet
daß der Wirth um ein paar bahtet.
Zum anderen visitirete er auch mit Ver-
wunderung seine Flaschen und fand des- […]”
[Praetorius, Johannes: Rübezahl machet Erbsen zu Gold.; in: Des Rübezahls Dritter und gantz Nagel-neuer Historischer Theil. Leipzig, Arnstadt 1673]
Nice Job. A historical fairy tale book needed a little pimping. Besides that, the script requires a new page including an engraving made after a still from an allready shot scene. Later, my engraving will be seemlessly blended into the scene’s footage.
The riddle is camouflaged as a metal memorial plate. I’m fastening my dummy to the front side of the original one so that no one notices anything at a first glance.
By the way, great shooting! A real outdoor experience in the Bavarian Alps. No art-department trucks, no cars. Only packing cases and brim-full back packs, that need to be dragged through the woods and up the mountains. Tough, but big fun.
And now for the complete opposide. After the shitty stuff now the shiny one. The pirates’ treasure vault. Thousands of fake coins, a mass of hot glue and dozens of spray paint cans. The result: fantastically absurd piles of coins.
The room of prince Aydin, son of Catherine’s arch-enemy, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Realised in the interiors of Amerang Castle, the set is a team work of the whole art department. I contributed all those artefacts that show Aydins affection for aeronautics. Much love and effort went in those details, because they are an excellent way to co-narrate a part of the character Aydin.
