Showing entries in category "director‘s diary"

Shooting goes well. These are two great actors, Dietrich and Thomas. They are exactly what I imagined for those scenes and I´m very happy I was able to get Thomas the very last minute after [...]

We´re in the “Brueckenkopfpark”, another part of then old renaissance fortress. The rain pours heavily. It starts to rain INSIDE the building. Catering sets up chairs and tables for dinner [...]

We´re considering our options: Shooting the bridge is not possible, the rain is just too heavy. We might take advantage of the fact that Thomas Morris, the actor who plays the Eric Galdhart [...]

Haven´t slept too well this morning. Morning ? It´s 3 pm! No wonder. A glance into the sky reveals new problems: It´s grey and it´s raining heavily. After consulting the weather forecast we [...]

Only 30 minutes left before sunrise and we still have to do a complete scene. It´s already getting brighter. I planned that scene to be carefully blocked and staged, but there´s just no time. [...]

Things are going slow this night. The team is not “warm”, everything needs longer than we expected. Pulling the heavy cables this afternoon for all the HMI lights took an eternity. Although we [...]

During moving the scissor lift again in it´s “low position” the gear was shaking too much and the 12 K almost came down! Even not erected, this was quite dangerous. Fortunatly, there were a [...]

The next take starts with a Steadicam establishing shot on the Vulcan gun. The move is complicated because it introduces the two actors in this scene and has to be timed carefully with [...]