"...when one side of the house was thatched, the horsemen would go and seek more feathers and, when they returned, not a feather was on the roof."

Russell created two models for Banshee, the house with the unthatched roof and the trio of faery wells, both from the Cormack MacArt tale. This entire sequence will eventually be animated and the models were created for reference. They’re quite detailed for something that won’t even appear in the final cut of the film but, then again, Mr. McGee doesn’t do things by halves. In fact, the faery wells really work. The three heads are hollow, the two above funnel water into the one located centrally below. He actually tested the water flow before firing it in the oven. The model could be placed in a base and rigged as a fountain.

Russell wondered aloud where the models would end up once filming was completed. I looked around our tiny apartment- already over-stuffed with props, costumes and hundreds of DVDs- and mused that my philodrendons had finally rooted and needed to be put in dirt soon. I turned to Russell.

“Wouldn’t the faery wells make awesome plant pots?”

Blink. Stare.

Clearly, he was not impressed.

I tweeted the picture of the faery wells @starrynightprod.

Post from: Babbling Banshee Blog. Content copyright 2008 Starrynight Productions, Inc.

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