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Now, we have some motivated young guards, but not nearly enough people to make those scenes work. Guerilla tactics again: I demand everybody not directly involved in the shooting into [...]

I´m on my cell phone, trying to recruit people of my family, but no one is available. One of our production trainees offers help from some of his friends. They arrive on set quickly, get into [...]

This afternoon, after sleeping as long as possible, we arrive on set to see there are no extras at all !Actually, we planned to have about 20 of them for today, we gonna shoot some panic [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]