How did you feel as a cameraman?

At the beginning I had doubts, if I would be able to do the job. Now, that we are finished, I think the pictures really look great.

The director became aware of you, because of your short film "Feld 2". What was the difference between both productions?

"Feld 2" was made very spontaneous within a day. "microsleep" on the contrary was a piece of perfect planning. I was creating the storyboard together with Erik, but the realisation was up to him. Of course I gave a lot of creativity of mine into it.

You have drawn the storyboard. How was it like having the pictures on mind and realising them on location?

Actually Erik had all those pictures on his mind, that's why we had to communicate a lot, to mix our ideas and transfer it into reality. Because everybody has a different interpretation of perspectives and camera-movements, but this really worked out very well.

How was it working on set?

For me it was pretty strenuous. It was midsummer. We shot on wheat fields. It was awfully hot. Often we had to carry the equipment deep into the fields and had to try different camera positions. We had no crane and no expensive equipment and I often used my bare hands for shooting to get a constant picture movement.

How was the work with kids?

Much more strenuous!

What was the equipment you used for shooting?

We shot with the equipment of SAEK Pentacon Dresden. We had a Canon XL 1, a semi-professional 3-Chip MiniDV-Camera with different lenses, Macro and wide-angle lens. We had also a Sachtler-tripod and sound-equipment, that was a Sennheiser-microphon with rod and a DAT-set.

Will you be a cameraman later on?

It would be a very interesting job, but I think it's not really what I'm looking for.

Are there any movies with camera-work you like?

I never was focused on cameramen, but there are some movies with very nice pictures worth to see. For example "Gladiator", "Amelie" or the Russian film "The Return". "The Return" actually was a film, we learned a lot about great camera-movements.

You also mainly did the cutting and the producing of extras and Making Of, posters and DVD-menu. Was that your more favourite part?

Yes, that was much more fun. Sometimes you got a brake, because of less time, but it still was a nice job to do. But I'm really looking forward to have time all day long and not just doing it in addition.

Did you know that the post production would take that long?

It wasn’t desirable, but I had fears about that, because I did some film projects before. But it was interesting to learn about the fact, that it always takes a lot of time and that you really have to plan that. You also have to take that time to reach a suitable result. I always get to know these computer programs a lot better by working with it and it is always a great improvement having the director next to you and dividing the tasks with him. At the beginning we had to solve a lot of technical problems before we started any artistic work.