Finding my Place of Peace

// February 3rd, 2010 // Directing, Projects, miso film

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.

The Pre-Production

My ultimate goal before a shooting is to be as good prepared as possible, especially if you´re shooting on a very tight budget. We´ve been pretty good prepared, it got stressy anyway, but that´s part of the job.

A month before the scheduled shooting one important funding was canceled, but thanks to the already granted fundings from MA7 we managed to pull off the almost impossible and shot a great movie with an incredible cast & crew who all agreed to work for free.

Without the great efforts of the whole team this wouldn´t have been possible, and i want to thank all of them: Cast&Crew.

The Shooting

Dealing with such a heavy topic as human trafficking it is very important to precisely know how you want to show the cruelties your protagonist has to endure. It´s one thing to write a screenplay about that, a whole other thing is to actually direct this kind of scenes.

I´ve been very lucky with the extraordinary cast, way before the rehearsals we sat together and discussed how we wanted to tackle those scenes – and we´ve come to very good solutions.

Shooting with “stars” like Rainer Spechtl and Christoph Grissemann was anything but difficult. It makes your life as director so much easier when everyone brings their own creative impulses and works together as a team instead of just trying to push your own thing. In the end working together counts, not just one great performance – and it just was a pleasure to work with all of the actors involved.

I think you know it was a great team and a great shooting if you´re sad that it´s over, and that definitely was true.

Post-Production

We shot the movie on the RED ONE and it was just great. I found this excellent Final Cut Pro / RED workflow document that made our life much more easy.

Basically our post-production workflow looks like this: