Showing entries in category "director‘s diary"

Ralf´s mechanism for the grenade release is hard to shoot. I´d like an extreme close up, but it´s operated manually and the whole thing shakes any time we move it, which is destroying the [...]

Time for the last setup. It´s just Hanno and me now. The weapon´s compartment has to be shot. As we open the compartment, we see that the LED indicator on the guardrifle isn´t working [...]

The screens are done. Hanno is filling in as a double for Didi´s hand on the keyboard and the joystick. It´s done quickly.

Take 38 of the crane move and we have it in the can ! I think it´s the shows record, never before did we have to do a shot this often. I´m happy no actor was involved. Now, we have to shoot [...]

It´s really hard for the crew to stay concentrated. It´s about 4 in the morning and we have to do this extremely complicated crane move over the console, to show very important details needed [...]

The crane is set up again. It´s a wide angle shot from high above, slowly moving in on the console with Didi. Jens is operating this time, I´m at the monitor. Only 4 takes and it´s a wrap for [...]

The weapon´s compartment is next in schedule. We shoot all the stuff on Didi first, to make him leave as soon as possible. Some issues with focus again, but nothing serious. The grenade looks [...]

Things are going good. We´re shooting some great Steadicam moves towards the console now, showing all the production value we have here. Hanno and Peter have turned the “mainframe computer [...]