Sophia Antonatou Brereton

AS I previously said it is s16mm. actually we are not considering Technicolor as one of the other students has heard negative things about them. Having worked in a photographic lab I can say that it's very easy to do ok work, but not so easy to do impressive work. mistakes can happen even with the best of them. I'm more interested in consistency and labs that people were impressed by their work. I'm never quite sure what to make of people saying 'they were really helpful' does that mean they explained things well and had a good disposition or they did something they don't normally do... thanks for the replies so far.

Hi all, I'm a film student trying to organize some s16mm to be developed and telecined in the UK from 4 different projects. I've called or sent the labs emails and I have had some generous student discounts from some of them. We have basically no budget at the moment for the films ie our pockets-bank overdrafts so price has always been an issue and the discussions in the past between all the directors and cinematographers had been to go for the cheapest option. Now we have two extremely similar offers from two labs so price isn't the decisive factor. Looking through past posts about telecine in the UK seems to get more than a few complaints about being bad and compared with a general consensus from people across the pond about if it's cheap is bad, I'm starting to wonder how to base our decision. As we will not be going back to print on film or grade it again the telecine would be a rather decisive factor of how the films would look, and with no money or time to do again elsewhere if it doesn't work out, we can't really afford to take too much of a gamble. so I'm looking for reviews/feedback from people that have used labs in the UK, both good and bad, and both for developing and telecine. If you don't want to name names on the forum then I'd happily provide an email address. Thanks in advance :) Sophia

Thank you Jasper, I've emailed him and hopefully he'll get back to me. regards Sophia

How can I find out what film they used in 'Goodbye Lenin'? I've googled the DoP Kukula but no luck. I'm preparing for shooting on 16mm for the first time (other than workshop at uni) and the director and I like the look of it. I know lots of it depends on production design but I also like the skin tones, and I thought finding out what film stock they used might help me in the process of deciding what stock to use myself. Any help? sophia