Christopher Garland

David Elkins has a couple camera reports on his site in word and pdf downloads. http://www.cameraassistantmanual.com/ It wouldn't let me link directly to them but if you click "Forms, Checklists & Labels" there are a couple of variations about half way down the page. Hope this helps.

This is all great information! Thank you to everyone who responded, I'll have to rewatch a lot of films and some new ones you've posted. Thanks again.

Could be, he didn't get too into the technical aspects of the film, at least not as much as I would of liked him to. As for "The Last Castle" thats very interesting I'll have to watch the film again. Thanks for your reply.

Hi All, I just saw "All the Presidents Men" last night, in Boston, followed up by a Q&A by the films cinematographer Gordon Willis. He briefly talked about his use of split diopters throughout the film and its use in a specific scene. It is where Robert Redford?s character is talking on the phone and to his left the rest of the characters are watching the TV, with very deep focus. As the scene progresses the camera pushes in on Redford and the diopter is moved along with the camera move so as to be out of the shot. What makes this interesting is that Mr. Willis said that the day of the shoot his 2nd AC was so scared he didn't show up so he had the move the diopter himself. I'm very interested in the use of split diopters and how cinematographers have used them effectively. I'd like to hear what you all think of them and if you use them in your productions?

I know that for 7218 the TCS is 5 and the 7212 TCS is 6. You can see the entire list by following this link: http://www.arri.com/infodown/cam/ti/tcs_e.pdf I hope this helps.

Thanks to everyone for quick feedback on my post. The scene is going to be a night interior, the reason that I'm using 500D is because we only have the budget for one stock and this scene isn't going to take up a full 400 feet. I may suggest to the director that we need to get some tungsten stock, which will make this problem much easier to handle. I'm very interested in the idea of using two 650w and two dimmers, thanks for the suggestion. As far as the blue I think I'm going to go light on it and not make it as pronounced, which should be easy if I can get some tungsten stock. Again thanks to everyone for the help. - Chris

I'm shooting a s16 short film on fuji 500D. I want to achieve a blue tv flicker effect on the actor using either 650w or 300w tungsten lights w/ flicker box. I know I'll be needing to gel the lights w/ ctb's but what grade ctb will exceed the compensation needed to convert to daylight balance? Does this make any sense? By the way I will be finishing in telecine, no print for me. Let me know what you think.

Hey Everybody, I'm shooting a s16 film in March on on Fuji 8682 which will finish in Telecine. The director and I like the fact that the 82 has subtle colors with its low saturation. I do however, want to bring up the contrast more than the film by itself would provide under normal conditions. If I overexpose by a stop and have the colorist adjust for a gray card. Will that bring up the contrast and possibly reduce saturation even more? I'm going to be doing some testing in the next couple of weeks so any help on this would be great. Thanks, Chris Garland

I'm planing to shoot super16 on either an XTRprod. or SR3 with a hydroflex deepwater housing. I've been on their site and read a little about the difference between the flat port and the dome port and the whole idea of focusing on the "virtual image" that the dome creates to compensate for radial distortion. However, the shot I want to accomplish begins in the water and ends out of it. My question is will the dome affect the way the image lookes out of the water? If so, then if I use the flat port the submerged images with be radialy distorted. If anyone has experience with this or has any info they can give me I would appreciate it. - Chris Garland (Student Filmmaker)

Does anybody know what stock was used in Requiem for a Dream, and if so, any special processes used in post. Any info would be great. - Chris Garland