Checking the storyboard with script/continuity Julian Eilmann
We´re in our Control Room set, preparing for the big establishing shot. I recall me standing here for so often in the past, planning exactly this shot, explaining it to so many people for so [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It´s the eighth take. It´s unnerving. We´re very tired, all of us actually want to go home, to their beds, have some sleep. But the damn thing isn´t in the can yet. Sometime we´re off [...]
Steve and Erics last day at the set
Our last day with actors Eric Gladhart and Steve Hudson. After today´s shots, they are finished with the movie. Somehow, I can´t believe it. Today, we have a bunch of crane shots we left over [...]
Craneshot in front of the cell
The day starts with a crane shot on the outside cell window. Hanno Gerken, who also acts as our key grip, is setting up the equipment. This is going to be tricky for focus again cause we´re [...]
Sound recordist Christian Weidner
Almost done for today. The take left is Steve Hudson running around in the cell hysterically. I ask him to hammer his fists against the steel door of the cell. This proves to be tricky for [...]
