Dole Ames Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I'm a student working on my first short being shot on film (shooting on Super16) with an Arri 16 SR3. I had a mag that had about 350ft exposed and 50ft unexposed which I accidentally forgot to mark and left sitting on a table. Someone in the crew went over to the mag and opened up the load side with the 50 unexposed feet. I don't care about losing the 50 feet, but I'm wondering if opening up the load side would at all affect the 350 feet that had already been exposed and was in the take-up side, or are they completely separate? I'm still very new to this and just want to make sure that I don't have to reshoot my 350 feet. Thanks if anyone can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adrian Sierkowski Posted October 18, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted October 18, 2010 Totally separate. The SR, and all Co-Ax mags keep feed and take up separated. All you'd loose would be the feed side, unless they also opened up the take up. All that feed, though, is unusable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saul Rodgar Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Totally separate. The SR, and all Co-Ax mags keep feed and take up separated. All you'd loose would be the feed side, unless they also opened up the take up. All that feed, though, is unusable. Ditto. Always helps to put tape on loaded magazines' latches. And along the surface where the door and the magazine meet. That way no one can accidentally open them up without going through the process of taking all the tape off, at which point they'll hopefully realize what they are doing is wrong. I've seen even really experienced ACs goof off and open exposed take up side mags without tape on. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Brereton Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 It's probably worth adding that NO-ONE except the loader should be opening mags for any reason. It's the loaders job, they are responsible for it, and they are the ones who get it in the neck when something goes wrong. It's the same reason that the Camera team don't touch the props, and the art dept don't mess with costume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dole Ames Posted October 20, 2010 Author Share Posted October 20, 2010 Great, thank you guys so much. I'll definitely be sure to be more meticulous about this in the future, it's just that we're working with a tiny crew and some people don't know the basics. Such a relief to know that we won't have to reshoot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edgar Dubrovskiy Posted October 21, 2010 Share Posted October 21, 2010 Shoot some dark subject (like a black card of some sort) on that stock - like 10ft. This way you will know how will the footage look if you accidentally shot an exposed neg (or some student loader opened the mag while loading). Good experience :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustan Lewis McBain Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Funny I pulled up on this convo, last night I had a nightmare that I opened up my mag by mistake lol... Sorry, next time ill post with context. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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