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shoot day 2:

5/10/2010

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‎'don't make rhetorical questions a habit, theo; they irk.'

not my favourite quote of the day, this, as it happens, but my favourite quote of the day is not quite fit for what has after all become a 'family' social network. surprise challenge of the day: the moon vehicle shaped digger that starts doing 'road works' on the field track directly outside our hut at 8am. diligent arranging of coffee and lunch breaks means both parties get to do their day's work. we're ahead of schedule so start shooting the complicated scene which involves theo cooking a full english breakfast or the closest to it he can get with what he finds in the hut. this proves to be the unsurprising challenge of the day, but we make good headway, hit dinner at 8pm on the dot and look forward to another 7am start...
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shoot day 1:

5/10/2010

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‎'and i don't cook. don't expect me to cook for you.'

twelve hours of intensive concentrated work. five scenes in the can. one day's schedule completed on time. nine people tired but happy. so far, so good...
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    sebastian

    i am, i suppose, the instigator of this project.  i wrote it, i'm producing it together with pascal verdosci, i'm directing, together with adam berzsenyi bellaagh, and because i've got adam codirecting, i'm even acting in it. but really the impetus for it came from our director of photography gregor brändli, who said to me 'october i'd be available to make a film'. and we'd been meaning to make our first feature ever since we first worked together, back in 2005...


    so it is, as you can imagine, a complete team effort, this, and we are fortunate to have on our team people with years of experience, as well as complete novices who are just starting out.


    i'm sure this will make it both solid and fresh at the same time...

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