The glamour continues

Slept in til about 1:30 pm. We left Vienna around 5 pm for the 3 hour bus ride to Gmunden. We see pretty countryside and farmland on the drive there. We eat dinner at a traditional restaurant in the village. I order the goulash, which is a paprika-based sauce with hunks of roast beef. On the side there's spatzle (noodles) to put into the sauce.

We shoot indoors til 2 am, drive to another location and set up to start shooting at daybreak. If I ever see another storyboard with video direction that says "open on a lake at sunrise" I will scream. The setting is beautiful, but it's cold and raining again. Miraculously we manage to get all the shots in. We leave the lake around 11 am for the bus ride back to Vienna. At this point, we don't know what day it is, what time it is, or where we are. We have dinner at the Italian restaurant by the church. We’re minor celebrities there, having eaten there like four times in 2 weeks.

Mountain near Gmunden. I think it's the beginning of the Austrian alps.


Watching playbacks huddled under blankets at the lake set.