Showing entries in category "director‘s diary"

The mastershots are in the can. Now it´s time for some Steadicam work again. The shot will start on the bridge floor, following Didi´s steps and then move around him as he looks up to the [...]

Lights are on again. The location looks great. Dozens of people busy for our project. The big lights, the scaffolding, reflectors. Everything looks so large scale, it makes me very proud. [...]

We start with a big wide angle mastershot from one of the citadel´s bastions. Tonight´s actor is Didi Hollinderbäumer again, walking over the bridge at night, searchlights sweeping the [...]

Back on the bridge. We need to catch up with our original schedule. Actually, this Thursday was planned as a day off for the crew, but due to the bad weather and the overall schedule problems [...]

30 takes or so later, it´s in the can. It´s 4 am again. What´s left for today are some detail reshoots we missed while editing the phase I material. One shot is blood dripping down from a [...]

Due to our good prep, we´re able to set up the lights relatively quick. Again, I decide to go with the Steadicam. I´m just so happy to have it stand by all the time. It´s so fexible and [...]

Now, it becomes complicated again. We´re wrapped here in the “Brueckenkopfpark” and have to move production again to the Citadel, our main location. This time, it´s another corridor with [...]

I yell “Action!” and all hell brakes loose. People are running, files flying, chaos. Even Helen Freise´s dog is incorporated into this scene, running with another guard. We shoot several [...]