[B-Greek] Jesus of Nazareth (Movie) in Greek?

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Sep 13 16:18:30 EDT 2010


A decade ago I talked with the "Jesus Film" people on this idea and
worked out costs, etc. It will add up to quite a bit more than pocket
change. (since that was ten years ago I won't mention the costs, but
probably more than you would guess.)

One of the big problems is editing the text. They had an English
transcript broken down into syllables and timings, with the suggestion
that the 'target language' script try to match syllables in general and
to work on getting the timings correct when recording in the studio.
With Greek that presents the humorous situation where the 'original'
Greek target will not fit into the recorded English filmography.
Either the Greek NT gets edited, or else one puts up with very
amateur dubbing. Neither is nice, but is one of the problems.

The producers recommended working with professional actors in
order to save time and to get things 'right'. They had done a first
version of a Hebrew film, and then needed to redo the whole thing,
hiring local actors and using local sound studios. I visited one of the
recording days. I toyed with the idea of getting Greek actors who
would add 'eta' and 'y-psilon' to their spoken inventory. One needs
a script writer(s), a director, recording studio, sound editor, about
12 -18 voices, and quite a bit of time investment for those behind
the scenes. to do it right, nice.

ERRWSQE
IWANHS


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Randall Buth, PhD
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