Showing entries in category "director‘s diary"

We´re running out of time ! After a complicated dialogue scene with the three actors, Dietrich Hollinderbäumer and Eric Gladhart do the next dialogue alone. Didi has to catch his plane and [...]

We prepare some mats for Steve Hudson to fall on for the next scene, in which he is kicked on the chest and falls down on the floor. Eric Gladhart is on the prop table we build extra strong [...]

It´s cold here, a big hall, no heating. Between shots, our actors can be found on their chairs, close to a gas heater (we´ve got only one), under heavy blankets, reading some books. The crew [...]

We´re still working on the scenes with Didi, Steve and Eric. The final confrontation. A very suspenseful moment. The showdown. I´d love to give more details, but it´s crucial we leave that [...]

Shooting has begun ! We have to hurry. Dietrich is only able to join us for this one night, because he has to return to Vienna, where he´s in a stage play for the next couple of weeks. This [...]

It´s Hanno Gerken´s birthday today, so we have organized a small “on set” party for him before work begins. We send him away with something to do and decorate our little catering corner with [...]

While the actors get in their costumes, I do the last light corrections with Mark Warnecke, my gaffer. It´s just final touches, we planned everything long ago in prep and made the appropriate [...]

We arrive on set, a huge hall in an old factory facility we rented as our studio faciöity for the cell scenes. Lots of space, dry and mostly clean for the shoot, the only existing problem are a [...]