Recce notes include sun path, power, toilets, and whether a 12K can enter the lift. Romance is for the treatment; logistics are for the PDF.
We photograph the space at the hour we intend to shoot. A dusk recce does not prove a noon still.
Permits name stills and motion. A photography permit that forbids ‘filming’ will stop the second unit.
Neighbors and security get a one-pager. Surprise is not a production value.
Weather cover is a real interior, not a café we have not asked. If rain is likely, the interior is already in the call sheet.
Promercure keeps a room on Freie Strasse, above a quiet courtyard. The work is for watch ateliers, glass labs and the museums that borrow their objects for a season. Days are short and plotted. Macro on the bench in the morning, a portrait by the Rhine window after lunch, grade before the courier.