The Offer

Where the project stands 22 of 76 done

• Phase 0 — Script lock2/5next: Final read-through pass for dialogue that doesn't land (the Lufft "not a purse" line…
• Phase 1 — German recording script, then generation sheets5/13next: Verification pass by a native or period-literate reader for accidental modernisms and…
• Phase 2 — Two decisions before any generation3/14next: Pronunciation is forced by respelling, not by IPA. Dialogue is TTS (AI-only production…
• Phase 3 — Visual development (before volume generation)12/27next: A turnaround per character, not a single still. One portrait cannot hold a face that…
• Phase 4 — Generation, scene by scene0/3next: Generate per row: BOILERPLATE + the row's Action & camera text; 2–4 takes per shot into…
• Phase 5 — Audio0/4next: The coverage gate — runs before every audio generation, no exceptions. The failure this…
• Phase 6 — Edit and finish0/7next: Assembly in Kdenlive/MLT: cut selects in sheet order, lay in dialogue, sound design…
• Phase 7 — Release0/3next: Watch-down against the two hard rules one last time on the finished cut

The film

• placement undecided
  TitlesTitle sequenceplacement undecided
• 
  Scene 1Morning — the runnersheet · 8 sets · 243 clips
• not started
  Scene 2Evening — the printers’ councilsheet · 26 clips
• not started
  Scene 3Study — the refusalno sheet
• not started
  Scene 4Courtyard — the revealno sheet
• not written
  CreditsEnd creditsnot written

Documents

• FADE IN: Hintergrund-Walla der Werkstatt. Nur die zwei Zurufe sind skriptiert; alles übrige… DRUCKERSTIMME (O.S.) Papier! (EN: Paper!) ZWEITE DRUCKERSTIMME (O.S.) Kommt schon! (EN: Coming up) Der Läufer platzt herein; der Brief fällt auf den Tisch YOUNG…
  🇩🇪DeutschThe Offer — Deutsches AufnahmeskriptENHG recording script
• FADE IN: Feet, running A YOUNG PRINTER pounds in through the gate, a letter in his fist, dodging the morning's… An ordinary working morning. One press pounds its steady rhythm. A second stands idle… The shop talks to itself under the noise --…
  🇬🇧EnglishThe Offerscreenplay — source of truth
• The roadmap for taking The Offer from the screenplay to a finished AI-generated short. Working order is top to bottom; checked boxes are done. Conventions live in AGENTS.md and still apply to every step here 1. The number is the reveal. The 400-gulden figure…
  PLAN — from current draft to finished filmevery checkbox above comes from here

The film so far

• The approved scenes cut together end to end, off the reference galleries and on a page of its own.
  The film so far1 assembly · newest the-offer-cut-01.mp4

Shared assets

• 
  Scene 1 · Morning — reference stills, clips & cues171 stills · 319 clips · 12 cues
• 
  Scene 2 · Evening — reference stills, clips & cues61 stills · 50 clips · 4 cues
• Read AGENTS.md and README.md first, then this. Blender is OPEN and MUST NOT BE QUIT —… scene state before touching anything, and note the file is UNSAVED (bpy.data.isdirty is True) with the whole 31 Aug relayout in it. The open file is…
  m08-handoff
• Written by the session that picked up notes/m08-handoff.md. Everything here was read out of the running Blender session, read-only. Nothing in the scene was modified The 31 Aug M-08 build (21 objects) was destroyed by an undo and no file on disk holds… see…
  M-08 — rebuild data recovered from the live session, 1 Sep 2026
• Split out of sheets/shots-morning.md on 19 August 2026, at Mabel's direction, to keep the working sheet short. Nothing here is superseded — it is the reasoning, the lineage and the measured findings behind decisions the sheet now states in a line each.…
  Morning sheet — the long-form record
• The Blender set of the shop interior, as it stands after the 31 Aug relayout Written so a session that did not do the work can pick it up a checkpoint path, and the name is now a lie: it holds the relayout, not the state before it. It has never had a home…
  The print shop in Blender — layout state (31 Aug 2026)
• GENERATED by scratchtrack.py from the-offer-de.fountain — re-run after any change to… One row per speech. Sheet rows quoting a speech must allow at least this duration… 56 speeches, 494.9 s of dialogue Longest speech: STU-11 (LUTHER, 28.9 s) — the floor for…
  Scratch-track timings — every speech, timed

Research

• The primary source for the film. Everything Luther says in the refusal scene is drawn from this entry, and so is the sum the whole short is built to withhold until the last shot — it sits in the entry's third line, so mind what you paste out of here into…
  Tischreden Nr. 4690 — the printers' offerprimary source — transcribed from the page images
• Working reference shelf for the Early New High German in the-offer-de.fountain The books are too large and too partly-licensed to commit, so only this index is tracked. Rebuild your own copy of the shelf with: gcloud auth login # once, with read access to…
  Reference library — indexthe reference shelf, indexed
• canon; the scene sheets inherit from it rather than restating it, and a prompt that contradicts it is a defect. It exists because the film had acquired a photographic style nobody signed off: every prompt sent today opened with "Unretouched documentary…
  The Offer — camera and film stylecamera and film look — proposed, not yet approved
• For any agent asked to turn an English line from the-offer.fountain into the German of the-offer-de.fountain. It is a starting point, not an authority: every claim below is checkable against the shelf in README.md, and the commands to check them are given…
  Writing the German of Wittenberg, 1539 — a working guideEnglish line → period German
• A starting point for working out how any given German word in this film would have been said. Wittenberg, 1539 Read pronunciation-library.md in this directory for what's on the shelf and where the files are. Sources are cited inline below by short form This…
  How to pronounce a word in *The Offer*how the German sounded
• Reference shelf assembled to answer one question: how did German sound in and around Wittenberg in 1539? Luther's variety is East Central German (Ostmitteldeutsch) of the Saxon chancery, inside the Early New High German (Frühneuhochdeutsch) period… 1350–1650…
  Pronunciation library — Early New High Germanthe pronunciation shelf, documented
• Written 19 Aug 2026, after three M-04 takes came back with men gripping press frames that do nothing, ink applied to a forme already under the platen, and a bar hauled with no carriage run in. The model will render whatever it is told and invent the rest, and…
  How the press actually works