Showing entries tagged with "making of"

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

We started shooting ! The very first take is a establishing shot in the direction of the two guards on our bridge. For budgeting reasons, we decided to light only parts of the set and keep [...]