[Regia-NA] Fw: Nydam Film

[Tate William T Jr TSgt 352 OSS/SCSC]

Consider which pictures from York got published alongside ours on the =
York
website...the jubblies in the trainers and glasses.  Makes you glad =
we've
got the likes of you and Kim to head off any producer ideas, and enough
experience in the membership to be able to make subtle suggestions for
scenes that producers take them on as great ideas.

Bill




WILLIAM T. TATE, JR., TSgt, USAF
Security Manager
352 OSS/SCSC
DSN 238-4827 (non-secure)
"France's position will change if Iraq uses chemical or biological =
weapons."
Jean-David Levitte, French ambassador.
...Or if the Iraqi army invades France.



-----Original Message-----
From: Yolli [mailto:yolli@lineone.net]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:28 PM
To: Kim Siddorn
Cc: regia-web@yahoogroups.co.uk; list-regia-na@lig.net
Subject: [Regia-NA] Fw: Nydam Film


I'm glad to see they cock it up just like they can here...

Roll.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Zacharov" <Zacharov@mail.tdcadsl.dk>
To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@pfepc.post.tele.dk>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 7:20 AM
Subject: Nydam Film


> I'm sending this to various friends, which is why it is in English:
>
> We are involved in the fighting scenes in a documentary about the =
Nydam
> boat, being made for German tv.
> The boat itself was rather mysterious; a slender mastless warship =
(more or
> less like a 'prototype' of a Saxon / Jute or even Viking warship). It =
was
> partly composed of really low quality parts, and it had been =
deliberately
> sunk as an offering. Possibly it was *built* as an offering.
> We were supposed to portray the fighters in a scenario in which a =
group of
> warriors from (for example) southern Sweden rowed to and attacked a
village
> in Nydam. It is now close to the German / Danish border, but then was =
over
> the Germanic side of the (waning) Roman Empire.
> For the filming, they used the old Viking ship replica; Sibbe Als. It
about
> 500 years too late, somewhat to small, and has somewhat different =
lines,
but
> what else could they use?
> We were given a lot of detailed instructions about Iron Age =
equipment. We
> could use some of our Viking stuff, and we could make new things =
(like
> trousers), which we could later use for our Viking hobby because of =
the
> paucity of Viking trouser finds. We were told to favour 'earth =
colours',
to
> avoid patches, and that leather was not OK (which is odd, because =
there
are
> quite a lot of Germanic leather clothes).
> So we turned up, and a tv woman selected certain combinations of =
clothes,
> armour, helmets, etc. Some of the choices were odd, for example I had =
made
> Iron Age sandals specifically for this film. They were not used, =
because
my
> Viking shoes 'looked better'. OK.
> Next morning the ship crew arrived and were kitted out with... =
theatrical
> costumes from L=FCbeck; knitted string mail, lots of fluffy =
sheepskin, a
> basinet (a helmet from over 1000 years later), jute sacking and =
completely
> cartoon wigs.
> The idea is that the public expects a certain style, so anything =
accurate
> would look wrong, so the cycle continues. Having said that, I'll bet =
that
> filming the ship under oars from under water will be a striking image =
-
the
> film people do have some wonderful ideas.
> I suspect that the continuity will be up the creek. Having played =
'one of
> the attackers' for one day, I had to play 'one of the celebrating
villagers'
> on the next. I changed to some other clothes, but just looked =
'wealthier'
> than all the others, so the director asked me to play the front man =
as the
> villagers offer the spoils of war to their God(s). There are no =
actors,
and
> I was encouraged to improvise in Danish. I hate this. I am not an =
actor
> myself, and Danish is not my first language. They then told me to =
dedicate
> it to Odin... er I don't think that Odin was top Germanic God in AD =
300.
I'm
> pretty sure Tir should have got the swords cast into the Nydam Marsh.
Things
> were hung up for Odin (???).
> Oh well, we do the combat scenes next week, which is after all what =
we are
> good at.
> The whole project could be a fiasco, but maybe with enough 'night' =
filters
> it will look suitably atmospheric, and maybe the public don't care =
about
> accuracy - but it is supposed to be a documentary.
>
> We also got a whole weekend away from the war.
>
> More to follow.
>
> Oleg.
>
> Our new email is:
> zacharov@mail.tdcadsl.dk
> The old get2net will continue to work for some time.
>

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