Early morning: The last takes with Dietrich (for today)
Traffic outside is in full flow now. Luckily, the dialogues are in the can. The rest should be easy, some glances and Didi walking away, with which we´re done quickly. I´m happy, everything [...]
Crew is waiting for the traffic to pass
My actors are giving their best. It´s early in the morning and traffic becomes audible. Mark starts putting styros against the small windows of the location and it helps, but there´s still [...]
Charging up
Dinner at 4 am. The waterfalls and the puddles are adding considerably to that surreal scene. Everybody is hungry and somehow, it feels kind of cozy to me. The food is great again, hot [...]
preparing the shot reverse shot
We still have work to do. The last Steadicam move was great, but we detected a nasty shadow in the frame no one had seen before on the flickery video transmission from the Steadicam I [...]
It´s getting late, as usual. The actors are great, but it becomes obvious: They´re getting tired now. So is the rest of the crew, but no one complains. Something which makes this production so [...]
Using the Star Wars trick
Shooting goes well. These are two great actors, Dietrich and Thomas. They are exactly what I imagined for those scenes and I´m very happy I was able to get Thomas the very last minute after [...]
We´re in the “Brueckenkopfpark”, another part of then old renaissance fortress. The rain pours heavily. It starts to rain INSIDE the building. Catering sets up chairs and tables for dinner [...]
Setting up the lights at the new location
We´re considering our options: Shooting the bridge is not possible, the rain is just too heavy. We might take advantage of the fact that Thomas Morris, the actor who plays the Eric Galdhart [...]
