The day starts with a crane shot on the outside cell window. Hanno Gerken, who also acts as our key grip, is setting up the equipment. This is going to be tricky for focus again cause we´re moving in on Steve Hudson at the cell window, looking out. We end in a close up of him, pulling at the steel bars of the window. We rehearse a lot of time before the first clapper. As expected, either the framing or the move or the focus cause problems. Again the problem of wood acting as stone or steel. Anytime Steve pulls, the bars make some noises which do not fit into our idea of steelbars. So Steve has to bring in his experience from the cell door and treat the bars very gently while making it look as he would pull very hard. Well, film is illusion, right ?







