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Pedro Padilla

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  1. Hi all- I had an idea for an experimental film recently, and I wanted to run the idea by the board to see if anyone had thoughts or suggestions on pulling it off. Basically the idea is to run 16mm film through an old turrent lens Bolex with the turrent turned all the way around to expose the gate. (This would need to be in a dark room, obviously!) Then I would use a laser pointer and some tungsten bulbs and film lights as shot through a pin hole or a thimble or other masking devices directly onto the running film. The desired effect would be to "paint" vertical lines and different patterns across the film and hopefully get something like a neon Stan Brakhage film. I asked a film tech guy I know about this and he said two big factors would be how fast I was running the film and the wavelength of the lasers I was using. After a little wikipedia digging, I found this info: -US laser pointers do not exceed 5 milliwatts -red laser pointers operate with a 650/670 nanometer wavelength I'm a student, so I have a choice of three film stocks: a) An old Kodak intermediate stock, 7243, we're guessing the ASA is between 6 and 12 B) Kodak 200T c) Kodak 500T Any info related to exposing laser light or exercising controlled direct exposure like this would be appreciated. Thanks a bunch in advance!
  2. Hello all, I am working on a student film in a few months with a decent budget courtesy of a university fund. Since we may be shooting on HD (director and DP still unsure (I may be gaffing)), some of the money can actually go towards different lighting methods that are not common to the university's rental house. To make a long story short, one of the nighttime exteriors could use some nice moonlight and rather than using combo stands all the way up and angling our four 1200 HMIs down on the scene (the most pivotal scene of the film in fact), I was thinking about a moonbox. I have heard and seen such a contraption and would like to know how one goes about building it in the most cost-effective way (we do not have any kind of a crane at the school). Furthermore, can we put those 1200s in there as the source? Thanks. Pedro J. Padilla Northwestern University
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