Briefing

Today’s briefing at Paul’s was shorter but took us longer. Before I sat to the others Paul and Oliver showed me proudly the first rough-cut of Wednesday’s shooting (no pun intended). It was only the footage from Oliver’s reel but looked better than I had thought. It looked like an alpha version of a strange Counterstrike: Source – addictive!

Yesterday I managed to get a seat around the table because tomorrow’s team is going to be a little smaller than Wednesday’s – also Schimpi isn’t going to operate the second HDV today. The shoot will take place outside of Voitsberg (haha – again!) on a small ruin of a little castle in the woods with a team of sword fighters and should resemble a common battle in Everquest: The avatar (we agreed on calling him Rübezahl) starts in the snowy woods, applies his armor and runs around to a basin where he’s meeting other avatars. Together they run up to the castle, defeat the guards on the bridge and have a big sword fight in the courtyard. Only Rübezahl survives, picks up the items and enters a small crypt-like room where he meets the typical RPG merchant and he sells and buys stuff – the end. Paul assured us that he only needs the sequence for intercuts between interviews and as fillers but not as the opener like the Counterstrike sequence.

After everything was said I watched with director of photography, Oliver, my HDV’s reel just to make sure he likes my style – Paul also dropped in now and then and assured me that it was alright. Strange: While shooting I hadn’t noticed it but on the Avid HD screen it was apparent: Many of my shots were tilted – from slightly to terribly. I will pay more attention today, when I’m also connected to the sound equipment including sound engineer/boom operator Chris. Well and I have to show Bernie (which is short for Bernadette) a little camera handling when she’s not on duty as setrunner. Bernie attends in the HTL Ortwein’s third grade and is student of Jörg Steger, which also was Lisa’s, Paul’s, Schimpis’s and my teacher when we were at that school.

Well I better go to bed now, because I have to get up in four hours. Damn!

Today's briefing at Paul's was shorter but took us longer. Before I sat to the others Paul and Oliver showed me proudly the first rough-cut of Wednesday's shooting (no pun intended). It was only the footage from Oliver's reel but looked better than I had thought. It looked like an alpha version of a ...

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