What would you call those colour balance segments at the beginning of a roll of film

[Niall Conroy]

Hey guys,

 

I'm shooting a super-8 piece in a few weeks, and i thought it would be nice to include those classic stylised colour balancing scenes that are shot at the start (or some point) of a roll of film.

 

Been trying to find more reference photos on the internet, but seeing as I lack a key-word, Its proving difficult. I did however spot this image on TV a few days ago:

 

 

which is exactly the sort of style I want for the shot - so anyone recall seeing any images floating about similar to this - or any videos on youtube/vimeo

 

I could have sworn they had these sorts of shot in that old Kodak test film:

 

Hope that all made sense

 

thanks for reading!

[Vincent Sweeney]

Shoot your own. You can't just use something you find on the internet without permission. Copyright exists whether it says it or not. You also aren't likely to just find a file you could use in editing anyway.

[David Mullen ASC]

Been trying to find more reference photos on the internet, but seeing as I lack a key-word, Its proving difficult.

 

"China Girl"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Girl_(film_term)

[Niall Conroy]

Shoot your own. You can't just use something you find on the internet without permission. Copyright exists whether it says it or not. You also aren't likely to just find a file you could use in editing anyway.

 

i always was intending to shoot my own. I guess I just didn't get that point across in my original post.

 

"China Girl"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Girl_(film_term)

 

excellent! many thanks!... although the 'key-word' isn't much of a keyword - quite open to interpretation from google :)

 

great help tho, thanks.

[Niall Conroy]

great stuff:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nVBDX3P5TY

[Jock Blakley]

Laboratory Aim Density frames are usually included in a laboratory's standard leaders and are used for quickly checking the colour and exposure of an intermediate or print. Nowadays they're supplied by Kodak either as a piece of film duplicated from the originals shot when the system was devised, or as a DPX of the new Digital LAD patch.

 

Going back a bit laboratories used to devise their own - I've seen ones from Eclair, Rank, Atlab, and Cinevex since the '80s, and there are dozens more before then.

 

Either way though - they're not shot at the head of each reel of camera negative.