The shooting of my latest short movie A Place of Peace wrapped almost three weeks ago, and finally i found some time to drop some lines about the production.
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Finding my Place of Peace
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010A little project with Canon's 7D
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009I shot a little image film for Divina Art, a handicraft club who organizes the christmas market on Karlsplatz, Vienna.
I’ve been involved in a Canon 7D shooting right before, but i wanted to give it a try for myself – and i’m pretty impressed by that little thing.
You can watch the video here (the music is once again from Andreas Grass & Nikola Paryla):
First great casting news
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009What i have described to be pre-production heaven in October more or less turned into a normal (stressy) pre-production as i predicted.
Due to some scheduling conflicts we had to postpone the shooting until January, we’ll be shooting from Jan. 12th. – Jan. 15th 2010 now.
But there are very good news as well: we managed to cast the first roles!
Christoph Grissemann will play JOHANN and Rainer Spechtl will be OSCAR.
We are really happy to have these terrific actors for our movie and we’re looking forward to cast the other characters in December.
All things come together pretty nicely, i can´t wait to shoot the movie…
Pre-Production Heaven
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009While most of the time the pre-production (or better, production in general) is very stressful and you almost never have enough time, it´s quite different right now with A Place Of Peace.
I got enough time until the shooting to prepare everything, meet with the heads of department to discuss all the tiny bits and i even manage to arrange the pre-production between my other projects. But i know two things for certain:
- just one little detail could change everything
- no matter how much time you have to prepare yourself, a lot will change and it will get stressful.
But no matter what, spending as much time as possible to prepare yourself is more important than everything. Prepare for everything that can go wrong (which in fact could be everything) – so you can deal with it in time.
So far so good, this is the status on A Place Of Peace:
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Movies about Human Trafficking
Friday, August 7th, 2009Since we’ll be shooting A Place Of Peace in December this year, we did some research on two levels.
I got involved into this matter since my last short movie Greener Pastures in 2006, during ongoing screenings for school classes or discussions and the book Joana researched for with the authors.
I had some discussions with Joana about real stories of human trafficking – the different personalities of victims and how they deal with what happens to them, their environment, the madames, the whole system behind Human Trafficking, hard facts, numbers and statistics, etc.
So while writing the screenplay i already gathered quite a solid background on Human Trafficking – but knowing the hard facts and real stories, or convey the emotions without boring exposition, insterts or dull dialogue with a movie is a whole different thing.
As screenplay author and director of this movie i had to do another kind of research – how would others deal with this matter? I had to watch movies about Human Trafficking.
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