Showing entries in category "director‘s diary"

Almost done for today. The take left is Steve Hudson running around in the cell hysterically. I ask him to hammer his fists against the steel door of the cell. This proves to be tricky for [...]

Somewhere, at the other end of the hall, is a huge, mean fridge from hell with food in it. It´s totally quite during rehearsals, but it springs to live any time we start shooting ! I demand to [...]

It´s getting damn cold ! When people speak, little steam clouds emit from their mouths already ! I hope this can´t be seen in the shots. Wouldn´t fit exactly to the fact we´re supposed to be [...]

We can´t keep ourselves from laughing any time Eric Gladhart does his lines with the required southern accent, extreme version! It´s a really funny contrast to Steve Hudson´s Oxford English. [...]

Thanks to the construction of the bunk bed, Steve always hits his head when sitting down beside Eric on the lower mattress. They have to bend over to be able to stay in the awkward position [...]

We are preparing a scene with Eric Gladhart and Steve Hudson on their cell´s bunk bed, watching TV. The monitor is a huge 16:9 TFT we put in the cell´s wall. The TFT is connected to a MacBook [...]

Finally, the last take ! The scene´s in the can and it´s goodbye again for Dietrich Hollinderbäumer after only one night of shooting. I drive him back to his hotel, it´s on my way home and [...]

Traffic becomes audible outside. The damn pigeons start moving, making noise and we´re still in the middle of that scene with Dietrich Hollinderbäumer and Eric Gladhart. Focus becomes an issue [...]